There’s nothing like winning the World Series. Whether it’s a fluke or a dynasty, it’s baseball’s biggest stage and usually the most exciting games of the year. It’s all about the trophy and the ring. That’s what fans focus on, and that’s what players focus on. Weirdly enough, winning the Governors’ Cup doesn’t come with […]
Party Like It’s 1999: the last Charlotte Knights championship Read More »
The MLB draft is like baseball Hanukkah. Your team gets a present, uh, prospect every round, the odds against them are incredible, and the whole thing is stretched out over several days. The draft itself is spread out over 40 rounds, and with 30 teams, that ends up being hundreds and hundreds of players. Only
Good, bad, ugly – high round picks in the White Sox minors Read More »
Manny Machado was the first player to make it to the majors who was younger than I was at the time. I knew he was coming up and was forced to examine my youth in relation to the ceaseless nature of eternity. After this happened, I realized, it would never stop. Players younger than me
The Children Are Our Future(Sox) Read More »
As the first calendar month of the minor league season draws to a close, let’s take a look back at the last few weeks of play and see who should get a promotion to the next level, and why that player also shouldn’t get a promotion! CHARLOTTE 1. Yoan Moncada Why he should: Moncada, second-base prospect
Merits and Demerits: Potentially promotion-primed prospects Read More »
The minor leagues are awash with exciting young players just starting to bloom into their potential, getting their mechanics down and developing velocity and learning how to hit dingers. These are young men who have never gotten a taste of the majors or been in a Turkish prison, players who still have their rookie status.
Prospects Are Slim: A look at non-rookies in Charlotte Read More »
Editor’s note: We’ve changed our daily content format for 2017, and will no longer be doing daily game recaps. Instead, we will provide content more focused on the news and info that our readers have asked about, specifically covering the prospects. On Thursdays, Julie Brady will serve as our new “columnist”, providing a higher-level view
Week One: Wearing small-sample-size-colored glasses Read More »
It’s almost Opening Day, which means it’s almost time to become emotional hostages to the White Sox for another season! Time to draw that hood of eternal misery again over our faces and wait, grimacing, for what must come to pass. It makes us feel better to talk about the good things about the organization
The Significant Hurt: White Sox prospect injury updates Read More »
To prepare you for what you’re about to read, let me preface it with this: the White Sox do not have a very good farm system. It is better than it has been, but it is not good. With that in mind… This year’s set of Sox Arizona Fall League prospects played for the Glendale
White Sox Arizona Fall League 2016 Recap Read More »
It’s the time of year again where every major league baseball team vomits forth one million new minor league coaching and player development assignments, and we get to sift through it and pull out the interesting parts. There are about 160 minor league teams, depending on how you feel about independent and short/off-season leagues, and
White Sox Announce 2017 Player Development Staff Read More »
I have entered the Pit; I have seen what lies beneath. I traced the career path of the third basemen with the most playing time each year for the Charlotte Knights since 2006, Joe Crede’s last really good year with the Sox. And have I come out better for it? We’ll go backwards in time.
Charlotte Knights third basemen since 2006 – an examination Read More »
