Ok, everyone, here it is, the White Sox prospect ranking you’ve all been waiting for. Pitching tools like fastball velocity and mechanics are overrated; we all know the best way to evaluate pitchers in the minor leagues is by the quality of their pitchface. What emotion are they putting forth? How funny do they look? […]
Pitchface: The window to the soul Read More »
Hello, and welcome to your weekly dose of White Sox pessimism! If you’re alive, you’ve heard about the two big trades that went down in the last week: Jose Quintana to the Cubs for Eloy Jimenez, Matt Rose, Bryant Flete, and Dylan Cease; and David Robertson, Tommy Kahnle, and Todd Frazier to the Yankees in
The Ghost of Systems Past, or, Never Love Anything Read More »
We’ve vanquished another minor-league All-Star Break, which means we’ve officially made it past the halfway mark of the season. In week one, we took a ridiculous look at small-sample size performances and how they’d look if the players kept them up all year. Now that we’re almost 100 games in, we take to the equally
Time: Things change as it moves Read More »
Who doesn’t love All-Star games? Well, many people, for numerous reasons, but that’s beside the point. The major league All-Star Game is the true cream of the crop, literally the best of the best of the best. The Triple-A International League vs. Pacific Coast League All-Star Game is… similar. That roster typically comprises legitimate prospects
Hey Now: All-Stars that may or may not have broken the mold Read More »
It feels like just yesterday that we at FutureSox were previewing the Charlotte Knights season; yet, here we are, with the solstice already behind us and September practically looming. We were so young then. Everything is so different now. Everything including the Charlotte Knights roster. Like any minor league team, they’ve experienced a not-insignificant amount
Putting the Moves On: Roster turnover in Charlotte Read More »
Inspired by the recent rainout of the Southern League All-Star Game, which Michael Kopech was scheduled to start and which included Jordan Guerrero on the roster, here I recount the tale of my favorite rain delay. I’ve worked for three different minor league teams over five years, so I know a bit about how a rainy
Rain Delays I Have Known and Loved Read More »
Yet again, I’ve been passed over for the MLB draft, and I’m starting to think that at 25, three years out of college, and having never played baseball, my golden chance is diminishing. To assuage my disappointment, I went through the last 20 years of White Sox last-round picks to see how they ended up.
Nice Guys Drafted Last: 20 years of last-round draft picks Read More »
Welcome back for Part Two in a sometimes depressing two-part series, in which I cast a nostalgic gaze back upon the recent history of White Sox minor league baseball, remember the prospects that had good years, and then remember the less good years by those prospects that were almost sure to follow. Part One, covering the late unpleasantness of
Fool Me Once: Good seasons by OK prospects, Part 2 Read More »
When I was a young girl, my father took me into the city to see a White Sox game. He said “Owens, when you’re called up, would you be the savior of the broken, the beaten and the damned?” As it turns out, Jerry Owens was not the savior of anything, not that the Sox
Fool Me Once: Good seasons by OK prospects, part 1 Read More »
Your browser does not support iframes. Earlier this week, the White Sox signed Cuban mega-prospect Luis Robert. This article is not about that (although this article is, if you want to get up to date on the teenager). Robert has been described by one anonymous scout as “the best player on the planet,” something that will
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