1. Less than two weeks ago, our Cat Garcia profiled how much of the White Sox flat-out shocking April dominance was due to a bullpen that was pacing all of baseball in run prevention. Less than two weeks later, I’m here to look back on a week with back-to-back series losses, where the easiest culprit […]
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White Sox 7, Yankees 1: Sale keeps rolling while offense clobbers Severino
This is exactly how you would have drawn it up. The Yankees and Luis Severino have been struggling mightily, and Chris Sale has been cruising this season, so one would expect that the White Sox would take advantage of both of those facts. Well, they did. They won the first game of this three-game set […]
The Twins Do Not Have A Chris Sale – Lineups & Preview 5/7
Between Ervin Santana (4/$55 million), Ricky Nolasco (4/$49 million), and Phil Hughes (5/$58 million), the “small market” Twins have allocated $162 million to a 4th starter, a 5th starter, and a guy who may not be in the league anymore but for the money he’s being paid. One suspects they would have been better off just dumping […]
Red Sox 7, White Sox 3: Operator error
Thursday night, both Boston and Chicago started troubled young starters that they surely knew brought significant mess potential, and man, they certainly got what they bargained for. 1. Erik Johnson spent so much of the first three innings of Thursday night’s start cementing the sad realization that he doesn’t have the promising stuff that made […]
Red Sox 5, White Sox 2: Offense calls it a night early
You cannot win them all. In fact, if you have a specific weakness in your lineup, demonstrated by having to choose between Jerry Sands and Carlos Sanchez for DH, you might lose games for a specific reason at times. 1. Jose Abreu turned on and hammered a 91 mph Clay Buchholz fastball on the inner […]
Jose Abreu’s struggles unprecedented for Jose Abreu
Jose Abreu is going through the worst funk of his entire career. That’s not hyperbolic. Through Thursday’s game in Baltimore, Abreu has been to the plate 100 times this season and is hitting .207/.290/.345 with three home runs, 10 RBI, eight walks and 23 strikeouts. His TAv is .232, his OPS is .635 and his OPS+ is 83. Abreu’s […]
Orioles 10, White Sox 2: Danks’ struggles obscure bad night for bats
The sun might be making its last creep under the horizon for John Danks. The 31-year-old left-hander has had more than his share of tough outings since he underwent shoulder surgery in 2012, but with three starts already this season where his stuff looked even more diminished than before, and the Sox giving his rotation […]
White Sox 5, Rangers 0: This one feels pretty different
On bad nights, the White Sox scrape together minimal scoring and depend on their starter to completely immolate the opposing lineup — in spite of shaky defense — to prop up a razor thin margin of victory. The formula seems unsustainable, and screams for offensive upgrades to be made. 1. Friday, however, was a good night. Jose Quintana, getting […]
South Side Morning 5: Why isn’t Austin Jackson hitting?
1. All the hullabaloo about Avisail Garcia being bad again has covered up that Austin Jackson has quietly been the worst hitter in the White Sox lineup early on. His ninth inning deep fly to the left field warning track dropped his batting line to .170/.204/.191 on the young season. Between this blast, a grand […]
South Side Morning 5: The Most Cautious of Optimism
1. After a turgid five-runs-in-four-games stretch for the offense, which plummeted them to the depths of the major league standings in total offense, the White Sox offense can hardly be redeemed by their top two sluggers knocking around mediocrity from Matt Shoemaker, but… Todd Frazier basically jumped on the type of mistake we have been […]