I have made myself clear on what I think the White Sox should be doing to the point where people are probably sick of hearing it. Briefly, my opinion is that they don’t have that many holes, but rather, the holes they have are just really, really bad ones. Therefore, it should be easy to […]
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White Sox Year In Review: Charlie Tilson and Zach Duke
The White Sox won 78 games this year and 76 last year. On July 31 of this year, they were 10.5 games out of the division and below .500. I suppose that was a modest improvement on being 11.5 games out of the division at the same time the previous year. Despite being so situated, […]
Duke Traded For Minor League OF; Overall Course Still Uncertain
The White Sox have finally made a trade–per the White Sox’ official Twitter account, Zach Duke has been traded to the St. Louis Cardinals for 23-year-old AAA outfielder Charlie Tilson. After somewhat disappointing 2015, Duke has had a nice bounce back year and has been roughly what was hoped for when he was initially signed […]
If nothing else, the White Sox should sell their bullpen
As has been commonplace around these parts in recent years, the White Sox enter the final few days leading up to the non-waiver trade deadline in flux, with nobody quite sure whether they are set to buy, sell or stand pat. Buying, at least in the win-now sense, has been off the table for a […]
The Case Against Selling
The non-waiver trade deadline is still a few days off, but the White Sox have already publicly acknowledged that this season is dead. And even after a bizarre three-game winning streak at the expense of the Tigers and Cubs, their playoff odds still sit somewhere around five percent. Perhaps it was a mercy that they got crushed […]
How are the Sox going to accelerate this playoff push?
On Wednesday alone, the White Sox saw 2016 first-round draft pick Zack Burdi blown up in his Double-A debut, walking four batters without getting a single out. Spencer Adams, the best combination of prospect shine and expendability in their organization, injured his ankle and left after two innings. Carson Fulmer, who is significantly less expendable, probably […]
Yankees 7, White Sox 5: Blown lead wraps up bad week for bullpen
The White Sox finished up their agonizing six-game road trip on Sunday, falling to the Yankees 7-5 to bring their record on the trip to 2-4. After getting Aroldis Chapman back from suspension for domestic violence earlier this week, the Yankees have been able to deploy their three-headed monster of Andrew Miller, Dellin Bentances, and […]
White Sox 5, Athletics 4: New Power Threats Fuel Victory
Home run heroics from two of the team’s newest faces were enough to power the White Sox to a win, but not early enough to save Jose Quintana from the all too familiar glow of another no-decision.
White Sox bullpen could have strength in numbers
While most of the focus during the 2015-16 offseason was on where all the premier free agent outfielders would land, one of the other trends that continued during the offseason was teams loading up their bullpen. The highlight, of course, was the Yankees adding Aroldis Chapman to a bullpen that already featured Dellin Betances and […]