As exciting as it will be to watch prospects like Gavin Sheets, Jake Burger, Blake Rutherford or Luis Gonzalez have a breakout year in Charlotte this season, it is the Knights’ pitching staff that will have the greatest impact on the fortunes of the Chicago White Sox major league club in 2021. After just a […]
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Nick Hostetler spent four years as the Director of Amateur Scouting for the Chicago White Sox and the club spent just under $45 million in those drafts from 2016-2019. A group of 11 players from those drafts have spent major league time with the franchise (Zack Collins, Zack Burdi, Jimmy Lambert, Bernardo Flores Jr., Ian
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Even though a minor league season is still planned to start in May, the Schaumburg alternate site is back in 2021. Now we also know the players who are heading there. While the location is the same, the personnel is very different this year. Last year, the alternate site was loaded up with prospects so
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Friday was a night of firsts for the White Sox in Anaheim. It was the team’s first win of the year. Andrew Vaughn made his MLB debut and got his first walk. Yermin Mercedes got his first MLB hit and ended up with a whopping five of them. If Mercedes wasn’t busy making history, the
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Bernardo Flores Jr. was claimed off waivers by the St. Louis Cardinals the White Sox announced on Thursday afternoon. The 25-year-old southpaw pitched in two games for the White Sox in 2020 and made his major league debut. Flores was selected in the 7th round of the 2016 MLB Draft out of USC. The 6-foot-4,
The White Sox open the season Thursday in Anaheim and that means the Opening Day roster is set. Andrew Vaughn has been the center of a lot of speculation and attention since the start of spring training. Now he’s breaking camp with the team. Though the White Sox haven’t announced any transactions regarding Vaughn, general
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With Eloy Jimenez out for the foreseeable future with a left pectoral injury and Andrew Vaughn in the running to take over the slugger’s position in left field, catcher Zack Collins is now in line for the everyday DH job with the White Sox. With that in mind, the club needed another catcher on the
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The scheduled start of the regular season is less than two weeks away, which means roster decisions are going to start coming fast. The White Sox made more cuts from the spring training roster on Monday. Outfielder Luis Gonzalez is the most notable name from a prospect perspective. Reynaldo Lopez will be joining him at
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The light at the end of the tunnel just got a little bit farther away. Minor League Baseball released its schedule two weeks ago, but there has already been a significant change. As first reported by ESPN’s Jeff Passan, the start of the Triple-A season has been pushed back to May 4. Initially, Triple-A was
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The first Cactus League games haven’t even been played, but there’s already seemingly an answer to two of the major storylines coming in. New White Sox manager Tony LaRussa explained the early plan for talented pitcher Michael Kopech and Garrett Crochet in a radio interview on 670 The Score on Friday morning. The Crochet part
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