By slashing .310/.386/.647 with a high-performance ISO of .357 and a wRC+ of 150 in 220 plate appearances for Charlotte in 2019, 26-year-old backstop Yermin Mercedes put himself on the map with White Sox fans. This winter, the team added him to the 40-man roster, further fueling excitement within the fan base. A Breakdown of […]
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When the Dominican Summer League season kicked off on June 1st, it signaled the beginning of what many new professionals hope would be the start of a long and prosperous career in professional baseball. The league is made up of both high profile players that received millions of dollars to sign with their clubs as
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Entering his fifth season as a White Sox minor league coach, Matt Zaleski prepares to take on his highest profile challenge yet — as pitching coach for the Charlotte Knights. Zaleski sat down with Jeff Cohen of FutureSox just two days before heading out to the White Sox training complex in Arizona to share his
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Luis Gonzalez has, from the moment he was drafted, been one of the more trendy prospect sleeper picks. Coming out of New Mexico, and having played in a Mountain West Conference not exactly known as a hotbed for baseball talent, Gonzalez flew somewhat under the radar as a college prospect. Perhaps surprisingly, the White Sox
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When most organizations undergo massive change in the form of a rebuilding process as foreign and complex as the Chicago White Sox have, the primary decision makers usually don’t withstand. Chris Sale was traded in the winter of 2016 and a new direction was forged. Atypical to the rest of the industry, Ken Williams and
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The 1993 White Sox were the formidable team of my youth. With my age in single digits, the team had its own distinct characteristic of adolescence lending itself to familiarity. The concepts of free agency and arbitration had surely not been introduced to me at that point, but the team’s construction was easy to understand.
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With the Arizona sun beaming down on them, several young baseball players in black and white Spring Training uniforms take batting practice. The crack of the bat echoes through the park, but for one player in particular, people turn their heads. His line drives just sound.. different. It is late-February 2018, and third base prospect
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The White Sox extended major league Spring Training invites to 27 non-rostered players. Among those already a part of the system includes: right-handed pitchers Jonathan Stiever, Codi Heuer, Tyler Johnson; left-handers Kodi Medeiros, who cleared waivers and was outrighted to Charlotte, and Hunter Schryver. Andrew Vaughn, Nick Madrigal highlight the invited bats. Gavin Sheets, Daniel Palka, Carlos Perez and Luis Gonzalez were also extended invites. The Sox announced
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Earlier this week, the White Sox announced their 2020 Player Development Staff, which includes everyone from Director Chris Getz through the rovers and coordinators to the affiliate managers and coaching staffs. Most of the names are the same, though many have moved around and are new to their upcoming assignments. And there are a few
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Following Minor League Baseball is something that I’ve loved doing for a while now. I was sucked into trying to decipher which players would be the next contributors and future stars for the White Sox. The potential of a player breaking out, playing themselves onto the Major League roster or into the future plans of
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