Reassuring or frustrating depending on your perspective or relative sense of exhaustion, the possible/likely/implied White Sox move toward a rebuild has opened general manager Rick Hahn to discussing the team’s situation in more frank terms. From Dan Hayes: “When you look at the top end of our roster, arguably we could measure up against anybody. […]
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White Sox Year In Review: Tim Anderson
In a season during which every monumental moment that occurred seemed to bring a new level of catastrophe to the lives of White Sox fans, a reprieve was offered in the form of a 23-year-old shortstop from Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Tim Anderson made his highly anticipated major league debut on June 10, sandwiched between a flurry of […]
Phillies 7, White Sox 6 : James Shields allows a bunch of runs
Fan favorite James Shields took the bump in an interleague contest Tuesday against one of the four teams with TAv lower than the White Sox. Seven runs crossed the plate under his watch, and the Phillies grabbed the opener of this short, two-game series. Not much excitement in this one until the end, but the […]
Royals 10, White Sox 3: Man, this team has a lot of problems and all of them were really, really obvious today
For fans of teams out of contention late in the year, a lot of September baseball watching is about finding silver linings: young players developing, personal achievements, and really any sign of hope for the coming year. For the White Sox, this month has provided a few such opportunities: Tim Anderson has continued to develop […]
Sox base thieves on the verge of breaking a shameful streak
Following a team in mid-September that’s out of the race is not the most pleasant thing to do. With the White Sox not having any September call-ups of note, one of the greater sources of suspense is following along for statistical milestones. Some of those jump out from scanning a stat sheet—Jose Abreu’s hunt for […]
White Sox 11, Indians 4: A run in every inning and a few extra for good luck
Throughout a 162-game season there are short games and long games; this was one of the long ones. A long game in September for a team well out of the playoff race can be boring to say the least. Despite this showdown with the Indians’ more boring qualities, it provided plenty of encouragement for the […]
White Sox 2, Tigers 0: Miguel Gonzalez is what the game’s been missing
To be honest, the Sox turning two out of every five games into a run-soaked, four-hour bullpen game was getting pretty tiresome, and also making it hard to remember how this was ever a team with even a puncher’s chance in the AL playoff race. Into a void the Sox had been filling with Anthony […]
White Sox 13, Twins 11: Order and reason abandon the sport, and the Sox emerge victorious
The assumption when the fourth and fifth-place teams in the AL Central square off in the finale of a four-game set, and drag themselves, the paid attendants, the stadium staff and broadcast crews through a four-hour, 46-minute, 24-run war, that this is awful, low-quality baseball; a joyless slog. Let’s operate under a different assumption, that […]
Twins 8, White Sox 5: Let’s not even pretend to understand what happened
The Twins entered Thursday night’s contest twirling their way through a 13-game losing streak that will probably get frequently referred to when retracing how they lost 100 games in 2016. During said streak, the Twins had allowed 96 runs, or around 7.3 per game. If one wanted to gradually transition a major league team into […]
Tim Anderson Showing Promise of a Solid Future in Rookie Season
It’s hard to believe that just three months ago, White Sox rookie shortstop Tim Anderson’s name was just a blip on the radar of every White Sox fan’s mind. A piece of the future that was near, but they weren’t sure how near. But now it’s hard to remember a time before Anderson. Tyler Saladino […]