Every year in mid-September, once the minor-league seasons have ended, a brief supplemental season for the youngest / newest minor league players, including many from the Dominican or Venezuelan leagues, head to Arizona (and Florida) for the Fall Instructional League, or “Instructs” as they’re called. For 3 weeks, the 50+ farmhands who were invited to […]
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The White Sox will send at least eight minor leaguers to the Glendale Desert Dogs roster for the annual Arizona Fall League, which begins play on Tuesday, October 13th. They are outfielder Adam Engel, Third basemen Trey Michalczewski and Nick Delmonico, second baseman Jake Peter and pitchers Brandon Brennan, Peter Tago, Robin Leyer, and Jeffrey
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With the 2015 minor league seasons completed, let’s take a look at the leaders in key statistical areas in the White Sox system. In this edition, we’re going to focus on relief pitchers. We’ll look at some classic core numbers (i.e. WHIP), but also some peripheral values like strikeout and walk rates that may better
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With the 2015 minor league seasons completed, let’s take a look at the leaders in key statistical areas in the White Sox system. In this edition, we’re going to focus on starting pitchers. We’ll look at some classic core numbers like ERA and WHIP, but also some peripheral values like strikeout and walk rates that
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With the 2015 minor league seasons completed, let’s take a look at the leaders in key statistical areas in the White Sox system. In this edition, we’re going to focus on hitters. We’ll look at some classic core numbers (slash lines, XBH totals), but also some peripheral values (like contact rates) that may better indicate
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After each month of the minor league season, we name one position player and one pitcher as players of the month on the White Sox farm. Generally, players have to see full-time innings or plate appearances (60 PA or 12 IP for the 1+ months here), and still be a prospect (not reached MLB rookie status)
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The Winston-Salem Dash finished the season with an 75-63 record overall, driven by a very impressive 45-23 mark in the second half (the best in the entire Carolina League since at least 2006). The Dash played a hard-fought 3-game playoff series against the Cubs affiliate Myrtle Beach Pelicans, but lost the last two games by
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The rookie affiliate Great Falls Voyagers were in the playoff hunt until the regular season finale but fell just short with an overall record of 35-39. The disappointing finish snapped an amazing streak of eight consecutive playoff appearances by the Great Falls affiliate. The White Sox usually stash college draft picks in Great Falls and
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***UPDATE 9/23: Our Kim Contreras will be taking in some of the games at Instructs, and getting video, which we will publish later. The White Sox are sending 50 of their minor leaguers to the fall Instructional League in Arizona. Instructs are an annual camp conducted by all thirty major league clubs, bringing some of
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The Kannapolis Intimidators were 64-74 and finished fifth in the South Atlantic League’s Northern Division. The big hindrance to Kannapolis’ success this year was an overall good thing – many of their top players were promoted. Towards the end of the year, the Intimidators’ offense became rougher and rougher. All in all, they improved from
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