On the surface, 2018 wasn’t all that different than 2017 for Tim Anderson offensively. a .240/.281/.406 line and 85 wRC+ isn’t anything overwhelmingly special. He’s still a free swinger, although he did post minimal improvements in both his walk rate (2.1 to 5.0 percent) and strikeout rate (26.7 to 24.6 percent). He also showed more power with […]
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South Side Morning 5: The White Sox lost a normal game where nothing weird happened
1. “Wow, what a game!” Or maybe it’s “ugh, that game went on forever.” Hopefully everyone is on board with the former, because after a winning series, it sure feels like a glass half-full kind of morning. The White Sox and Twins battled it out for 13 innings before the Twins were finally able to […]
Hitting development still the key to the White Sox future
We’ve written about it several times in the past, but one of the more interesting changes in player acquisitions we’ve seen in recent years, coincidentally or not, is the White Sox targeting position players who are at or close to major league-ready. It made sense, particularly when they were still trying to contend, as the White […]
Tim Anderson’s Development
As you’ve read in this space repeatedly, for all of the excitement around the new and newer prospects in the system, the White Sox Rebuild will turn largely on how some players already in house progress, with Tim Anderson representing just such a crucial class of player. It seems fair to describe his rookie season […]
The Kansas City Royals Need to Shut Up
No one likes to lose. It’s why little kids flip Monopoly boards and unscrupulous adults move game pieces around when people leave the room. The entire point of competing is winning and when your job is competing at the highest level possible in your field, you might start taking umbrage at minor and imaginary slights. […]
South Side Morning 5: (Mostly) Beating the Royals
Five of the White Sox eight wins this season have come against the Royals at Kauffman Stadium, a fact that says more about their ineptitude against non-Royals teams than about the team’s performance as a whole. Still, even after dropping the last two of the weekend’s five-game series against the 7-20 Royals, a solid stretch […]
Tim Anderson is Starting to Look Like the Player We’ve Hoped He’d Become
Despite a very entertaining Opening Day, the 2018 White Sox season hasn’t exactly gotten off to the greatest start. Losing four in a row to two teams that are fairly safe bets to finish last in their respective divisions can put quite the damper on any proceedings. No, this year isn’t supposed to officially mark […]
South Side Morning 5: These Things Are Bound To Happen
1. Opening Day in Chicago seemed hunky dory when the White Sox turned a 7-3 lead over to the expectantly reliable duo of Nate Jones and Joakim Soria. Then some time passed, too many Tigers crossed home plate, and next thing you knew the White Sox were 9-7 losers in 10 innings. As much as […]
South Side Morning 5: Opening Day Dingers
1. The anticipation and excitement that comes with Opening Day make it almost impossible to not overreact, whether it’s to something bad or something good. Any reasonable baseball observer knows what happens only matters as much as any single game can. It’s an oft-repeated sentiment: It’s just one game. It’s a long season. Small sample sizes. Etc. It […]
PECOTA and the 2018 White Sox
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 […]