Major League Opening Day is behind us, but the minor league season still awaits. All four full season White Sox affiliates get started Thursday and we’ll have previews for each of those teams as quickly as possible. Birmingham’s roster came out first because they played the big league club in an exhibition last week. As […]
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Positional Overview: Prior to this off-season, the corner infield positions were both viewed as being weak spots in this organization, but GM Rick Hahn has done a good job of bringing in potential long-term occupants at both 1B and 3B this off-season in the shape of Jose Abreu and Matt Davidson, respectively. Beyond those two
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It was recently reported that Adrian Nieto, selected by the White Sox in the Rule V Draft in December, has made the 25 man roster to back up Tyler Flowers at catcher. Any player going straight from Class A to the majors, let alone a catcher, is very unusual and carries multiple risks. Jesus Flores did it
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Positional Overview: The catching spot is arguably the weakest position in the entire system at present. Tyler Flowers is the favorite to claim the starting C role with the big league side out of Spring Training, and although still somewhat young, he was far from convincing both offensively and defensively in 2013. Unless you are
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This time of year, there are always more players in the organization than there is room for on active major and minor league rosters. If you attempt a depth chart for the April-starting affiliates (Class A and up), even leaving out the guys likely to be in rookie ball (which starts in June), you end
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Just a year ago, one of the perceived strengths in a thin White Sox farm system was talent depth in the outfield. That crowd was led by four raw, ‘toolsy’ athletes: Courtney Hawkins, Trayce Thompson, Jared Mitchell and Keenyn Walker. All four have some combination of plus tools, from power, speed, glove and arm strength.
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Pitchers and Catchers report for Spring Training this weekend, and some players (minor and major leaguers) have already arrived at Camelback Ranch. Aside from a little tinge of jealousy of players who get to run around on green grass in seventy degree temps, there’s quite a bit to get excited about for White Sox fans,
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The White Sox farm system was at or near the bottom of the MLB barrel for a number of years, basically from the 2005 World Series season until a year or two ago. We won’t explore the many reasons for this now. But one of the key contributing factors to the dearth of talent was
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With the popularity of our Next Wave article last offseason, we’ve decided to make this an annual tradition – and split it into two articles. This is a list of pitchers in the White Sox system to keep an eye on in 2014 that fell outside of the organization’s Top 25 players. We published the
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With the popularity of our “Next Wave” article last offseason, we’ve decided to make this an annual tradition – and split it into two articles. This is a list of position players in the White Sox system to keep an eye on in 2014 that fell outside of the organization’s Top 25 players. The pitching
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