It’s no secret that last year’s Dash failed to impress, whether at the plate, on the mound, or in the standings. They spent very little time, if any, above .500. Their first month was their best month at 12-12, and everything went downhill from there. But this isn’t last year’s Dash, it’s the similar-but-different-in-important-ways this […]
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Mike Rankin and James Fox welcomed on Ben Spanier of Baseball Prospectus to provide in-person perspective on a number of Chicago White Sox prospects playing in low-A Kannapolis and high-A Winston-Salem. Before that, Rankin reacted to clips from an interview courtesy of FutureSox’ Charlotte Knights correspondent Jeff Cohen and the Dash. Winston-Salem manager Lorenzo Bundy
Pitching is the lifeblood of any Major League Baseball franchise. The numerous cliches about its importance — “you can never have too many pitchers” chief among them — exist because pitching is tough to find and develop. As another adage goes, it takes ten pitching prospects to get two. Fortunately for the White Sox, the
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This series will recap the performances of each White Sox minor league affiliate throughout the week. Here is the third installment of the 2022 season. Charlotte Knights (7-11) Weekly Record: 1-5 Charlotte took a journey up to Nashville to take on the Sounds this week, and things went pretty poorly for the Knights in the
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Adding up the career wins above replacement from your website of choice for the likes of José Abreu, Luis Robert and Fernando Tatís Jr. is one way to tout the impact of Marco Paddy, but the White Sox are hoping there’s ultimately more to that story. When the book is eventually closed on the impact
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Baseball is back in full swing at every full-season level, and that includes the team that plays in Winston-Salem. The High-A Dash are nearing two weeks into the season and bearing a record of 5-6, the side of .500 they were woefully familiar with last year. This year, though, both the hitting and the pitching
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Who’s ready for some Prospect Porn? Because my recent conversation with Winston-Salem Dash manager Lorenzo Bundy left me pretty hot and bothered about Oscar Colas and friends. Think I’m kidding? Listen to this and tell me you’re not fantasizing about seeing the 23-year-old Cuban in Chicago: “Oscar has really good hands and once he figures out
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This series will recap the performances of each White Sox minor league affiliate throughout the week. Here is the second installment of the 2022 season. Charlotte Knights (6-6) Weekly Record: 3-3 This week, Charlotte welcomed the Memphis Redbirds to Truist Field. The series started off rocky for the Knights, but fortunately they were able to
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Mike Rankin and James Fox welcomed on Jim Callis, senior writer at MLB Pipeline, to highlight the strengths of the Chicago White Sox organization. Callis discussed MLB.com’s top 30 White Sox prospect list and provided unique insight about top prospect Colson Montgomery. Callis also evaluated the state of the White Sox’ pitching depth within the
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How many times have you fantasized about what it would be like to watch an entire baseball game without a single player stepping out of the batter’s box to adjust his batting gloves? Well, Nomar Garciaparra be damned, that dream came true for me in Charlotte this past weekend as MILB enforced it’s pitch-clock rules
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