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South Side Morning 5: Sox bullpen has inevitable slide back to Earth

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 […]

MLB: Chicago White Sox at New York Yankees

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 […]

MLB: Spring Training-Tampa Bay Rays at Minnesota Twins

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]