All-Star rosters for sub-Triple-A teams have been announced, and the White Sox are… well represented. A total of eighteen White Sox prospects have been named All-Stars from the @BhamBarons, @WSDashBaseball and Kannapolis @Intimidators. — Chuck Garfien (@ChuckGarfien) June 12, 2018 For context, there were 11 last season (with a few soon-to-be Sox like Bryant Flete […]
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Welcome to June, a brand new month! A little-known Baseball Rule is that you’re allowed to totally forget your team’s performance for the preceding months when a new one begins, so everyone, congratulations on the 3-2 Chicago White Sox. 16 isn’t that many games back for the wild card, right? In fact, there are a
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The most optimistic outlook for the White Sox big league performance this year was “bad but entertaining,” between the ongoing development of players like Yoan Moncada, Tim Anderson, Lucas Giolito, and more. Instead of that, the White Sox are straight-up just bad. Moncada has gone through hot and cold streaks and injuries and is currently
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There are suddenly a bunch of talented post-teens playing major league baseball and making everyone feel bad about themselves. Juan Soto, currently the only actual teenager in big league baseball, hit a three-run home run on the first pitch of the first at-bat in his first game started for the Nationals. Ronald Acuña, who turned
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The White Sox, you guys, are really bad. While it’s not true that there’s absolutely nothing good about them, it is true that there is almost absolutely nothing good about them. There’s a lot that needs to be fixed before this turns into a competitive club, from the top of the major league team to the
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It’s apparent that Jake Burger was not sufficiently dunked in the River Styx as a child, as we learn of his second tear of his Achilles tendon, completely resetting his rehab and starting the recovery clock at twelve months… again. This is upsetting for obvious reasons! Burger will be 23 before he even steps on a field
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Alternate title: How many times can we say “Basabe” in one post? It’s a good time to be Luis Basabe. Now 21 years old, Basabe was signed for $450,000 as an international free agent at age 16 by the Boston Red Sox. Since then, Luis has steadily risen through the minor leagues. The switch-hitter’s statistical
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It’s an exciting time to be into White Sox prospects, much more than it is to be into White Sox major league baseball play. Everyone knows about the Micker Adolfos and Michael Kopechs of the system and what they’ve been doing so far. But the four stateside teams are awash with talent, and a few performances may
Players of Clandestiny – Lesser-Recognized Performances of 2018 Read More »
It’s been a Dash-heavy week, and this is a Dash-heavy post, with two already in the first sentence and a third to follow almost immediately. Winston-Salem has been the talk of the White Sox minor league system, with impressive offensive showings and pitching performances to back it up. Our Chuck Garfien has the breakdown of
Dashing Through the Accumulated Weight of History, Laughing All the Way (ha ha ha!) Read More »
I think it says a lot about the mental composition of a person when they manage to avoid looking at fighter jets in a pyramid formation streaming across the Arizona mid-day sky just beyond center field. There’s a military base not far from Camelback Ranch in Glendale, and in mid-March, the Blue Angels spent a
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