With five games in the books, the 2017 season is going mostly as you would have expected one week ago — Avisail Garcia is hitting .474, Geovany Soto is tied for the league lead in home runs, and Todd Frazier is the worst hitter in baseball. Sardonicism aside, there is plenty to analyze after a […]
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Defining success: The prospects
The White Sox are in a situation recent memory is unfamiliar with as they enter the 2017 season devoid of hopes for contention. Because of this, it would be foolish to judge the successes or failures of the team based solely on wins and losses, but instead look at individual growth of certain players, trade […]
The Significance of Brett Lawrie’s Departure
As you have already heard, Brett Lawrie was released on Friday. If healthy, Lawrie represents a roughly league average bat that can be deployed with a plus glove at third or a below-average glove at second. Given that he was in his last year of arbitration and only cost $3.5 million, in a vacuum that’s an […]
The organizational rankings are here and the White Sox are 6th
The excellent prospect staff at Baseball Prospectus has finished putting its organizational rankings together for the 2017 season. Unlike years past, the White Sox ranking is one to get excited about. As is mentioned in the article, the White Sox were in the bottom ten a year ago and now sit in the top ten. That […]
Lucas Giolito threw pitches and Yoan Moncada fielded them in a real, live baseball game
The stage for the first glimpse of the White Sox future was an inconspicuous Spring Training game that took place before the calendar even read March and ended in a tie. The White Sox 4-4 draw with the Cubs on Monday was much like other Spring Training games — that is to say, unmemorable — […]
The Oddity of the White Sox Rebuild
Many White Sox fans were overjoyed this offseason to finally see the team choose a direction. After years of being “mired in mediocrity,” fans and management alike were tired of providing half-measures to try to compete in the present. With that in mind, Rick Hahn pulled off incredible back-to-back trades during the Winter Meetings. In […]
Measuring expectations for Yoan Moncada
The Chicago White Sox took their first steps toward rebuilding when they shipped Chris Sale to the Boston Red Sox at the Winter Meetings in November. While general manager Rick Hahn wasn’t going to move his homegrown ace for any old package, the decision to move him certainly brought back a desirable haul headlined by […]
10 days ’til camp and not much going on
We’re 10 days from pitchers and catcher reporting to camp in Glendale, Ariz., and there isn’t much going on. A recap of White Sox-related news over the last couple of days: Jose Quintana trade rumors resurfaced Wednesday when USA Today’s Bob Nightengale tweeted that the Rangers had increased their pursuit of the White Sox lefty. […]
Commitment to rebuild means commitment to patience
Last weekend’s SoxFest event provided us with our first look at the 2017 White Sox as they’ll likely be constructed. It also gave Rick Hahn his first opportunity to speak about the challenges the team faces as it undergoes its most drastic rebuild in two decades. Hahn’s statements throughout the weekend, both to reporters and […]
White Sox new reality taking the field
Young White Sox hitters have been gathering in January to get an early start on the season preparation since the days of Camp Cora. This title no longer is welcome because both Cora and the regime he worked for ended hastily, and the minicamp under that title was inextricably tied with the false hope for […]