Wednesday was PECOTA Day at the Baseball Prospectus, the day when our projection system spits out how it thinks the new season will unfold. You can view the full projections over at Baseball Prospectus, and the work that goes into them always make it worth your while, but let’s dive into some of the more noteworthy projections […]
Tag: Reynaldo Lopez
White Sox Bring Back Miguel Gonzalez On One-Year Deal
While the eerily passive offseason continues, the White Sox remain active, albeit in a modest fashion appropriate for their situation. On Wednesday, Miguel Gonzalez agreed to return to the South Side on a one-year, $4.75 million contract. After pouncing on Gonzalez once Baltimore put him on waivers in 2016, he and Don Cooper gelled marvelously and […]
Plethora of pitching prospects puts White Sox in good position
“Prospects will break your heart” is a phrase you’ve likely read on a good number of occasions on this site and others. “Pitching prospects will break your heart” is even more apt, as any scout or evaluator can likely rattle off a good dozen or so examples of pitching prospects who failed to live up […]
White Sox Season In Review: Reynaldo Lopez
Over the next few weeks, BP South Side will be reviewing the performance of all 51 players who suited up for the 2017 White Sox. Players whose seasons were particularly noteworthy will get their own standalone article, while smaller contributors or those who were traded/cut will be grouped together. We’ll do our best to summarize and […]
The White Sox were never truly tanking
The end of the season is right around the corner, and for a select few teams that means moving on to play more games in October. For another select group of teams, it marks a time to look forward on the calendar to June, when the first year player draft will occur. The White Sox […]
South Side Morning 5: Jose Abreu’s big, round number
1. If you’re a regular visitor to Baseball Prospectus, I likely don’t need to explain how RBI are a poor representation of a player’s value. One only need to look at Albert Pujols — at 98 RBI on the season despite being one of the least valuable position players in baseball this year — to […]
What matters now and what matters in the future
I was heading to work Wednesday afternoon when a buddy sent me a message to rib me over the fact that the White Sox bullpen had just blown a 3-1 lead in the eighth inning of what wound up a 5-3 victory over the Kansas City Royals. This gentle fan-to-fan banter is commonplace in my […]
Jose Abreu Is Awesome; Reynaldo Lopez Might Be?
Jose Abreu arrived in the majors surrounded by mystery. Sure, he had hit the way an All Star first baseman would have in Cuba, but the level of competition was so uneven it was unclear how it would translate. Abreu’s rookie year went about as well as anybody could have hoped, as he hit .317/.383/.581 with 36 […]
The Catbird Speaks 9.7.17 – Lucas Giolito’s Success and the AL Wild Card Mess
Nick and Collin got together on a Thursday afternoon to discuss the success of the White Sox young pitchers, the state of the AL Wild Card race, and a number of other random things. Among the topics: Lucas Giolito’s most recent start, as well as how good he’s looked during his brief time thus far […]
South Side Morning 5: Prospects, Roster Filler, And Avi
1. Lucas Giolito’s 7-inning, 10-strikeout gem in Sunday’s victory over the Rays wasn’t quite the complete game shutout our own Nick Schaefer boldly predicted would happen before the season began, but it represented a glimpse of why scouts and prospect analysts alike were drooling over the 23-year-old’s potential not all that long ago. James Fegan went […]