Now is the time to live moment to moment. There is room for a longview, but an extreme longview, one that sees over the clearing where we sit in the present, beyond the treetops of our immediate future to the larger arc of progress of existence itself drifting, at times, aimlessly in the sky. Take […]
Tag: Mat Latos
Stranger Things: The 2016 White Sox Season
Rejoice, White Sox fans, for it is finally over. The 2016 season that started out with a bang and went out with a very long fizzle has now officially been laid to rest for a whole week. Of course, the entire idea of needing to rejoice because this season is “finally over” brings us back […]
White Sox Year in Review: Failed Fifth Starters
Coming into 2016, the White Sox did not seem to be under any illusions about the back of their rotation. After Chris Sale, Jose Quintana, and Carlos Rodon, there was a staggering drop off to the fourth and fifth options. They started with John Danks and Mat Latos, one by inertia, and the other as […]
Lots of moves on the South side, but little action
As someone on the Baseball Prospectus thread for Transaction Analysis assignments, I would be able tell that the White Sox have been busy for the last week or so even if I was sunning in Tahiti. More plausibly, I would be able to tell the Sox have been busy even if I was incarcerated in […]
Latos Out; Morneau and Danish In
On the heels of the first major acquisition of the season throwing batting practice to the Washington Nationals, the White Sox announced a flurry of transactions today in the hours leading up to the start of the amateur draft. I. Mat Latos — DFA’d — Despite his fluky April, Latos crashed back down to Earth with a […]
South Side Morning 5: Fixes to White Sox roster are running late
1. Carlos Rodon is mad at White Sox management. Not the sort of deep, intractable anger that hastens his departure the moment free agency strikes, but the type of annoyance at the caution being employed to yank him from the rotation for a turn that provides some assurance. The White Sox are framing things such that the […]
Giving Latos Another Whirl – Game Preview & Lineups 6/7
A series of sighs and sentences beginning with player names but trailing off into dissatisfied mumbles would be, though appropriate, uninformative pre-game reading. After a terrible stretch of baseball the White Sox find themselves not buried, but just two games out of the division lead. This should be reason for optimism. The long season has ebbs and […]
Here’s What’s Really Happening with Mat Latos
In mid-April, after witnessing just a flash of what looked like it had the potential to be a brilliant start from White Sox starter Mat Latos, I wrote about what this stretch that Latos was having could mean for his future success in the White Sox’s rotation. Well, six weeks later and the question I […]
South Side Morning 5: Slump busted in just in time
1. The 2008 and 2005 White Sox both dealt with seven-game losing streaks at one point. When the 2005 club did it in August, they immediately ceded four games of their once enormous AL Central lead to the Indians, who would eventually shrink a 15-game deficit into just 1.5 games before being finally beaten back […]
White Sox 6, Mets 4: Finally, a victory
Tuesday night’s game between the White Sox and Mets saw a clash of seven game streaks. Chicago entered with a seven-game losing streak, while Mets starter Steven Matz countered with a seven-start winning streak. Baseball is a funny game and decided to end both with one fell swoop as the Sox came from behind to claw out […]