The American southwest is a bizarre place. You may already know this; I first figured it out eight years ago, during my first spring training foray into Arizona. It’s a land with a Jack-in-the-Box on every corner, a traveling carnival in every parking lot, and so much baseball it can sometimes feel like you’ve descended […]
Go West, Future Sox Read More »
Everything comes to an end. It’s reassuring to think about when it comes to bad things – eventually, this will all be over and we can look back on it – and depressing when it comes to the good. Time grinds it all down to a stop. Sometimes it’s a blessing, sometimes it’s a tragedy.
The Heat Death of the Minor League Season Read More »
We’re putting the final knife in the back of August, which means that today is the postseason-eligible waiver trade deadline. After the normal trade deadline on July 31st, teams can place players on waivers; if they aren’t claimed by any team, the player can then be traded. After today, though, any players acquired in a
Waiver Trades: Mostly, nothing exciting happens Read More »
It’s Nicky Delmonico’s world, we’re all just living in it. He has blessed us with his very presence; all we do, we do for Lil Nicky. Delmonico is, at the time of this writing, batting .329 with a .434 OBP. He’s been on base in all but one of his 21 games played so far.
The Once and FutureSox: What do hot starts lead to? Read More »
I’ve spent a sizable proportion of my adult life at minor league baseball stadiums, mostly working (read: pulling tarp, getting clobbered by foul balls, corralling mascots, etc). So when the Winston-Salem Dash came to play Local Minor League Team (box score here), it was the opportunity to not just see a team full of exciting
The 19th Dong of Seby Zavala Read More »
Rick Hahn has spent the last several months doing his best Ash Ketchum impression, trading for and, uh, we’ll go with “signing” rather than “catching” all the top prospects he can get his grimy little hands on. Since last December, he has made 10 trades, with minor league prospects almost exclusively the returns (hey, Tyler
The Point of Increasing Returns, or, just got some new Sox Read More »
Ok, everyone, here it is, the White Sox prospect ranking you’ve all been waiting for. Pitching tools like fastball velocity and mechanics are overrated; we all know the best way to evaluate pitchers in the minor leagues is by the quality of their pitchface. What emotion are they putting forth? How funny do they look?
Pitchface: The window to the soul Read More »
Hello, and welcome to your weekly dose of White Sox pessimism! If you’re alive, you’ve heard about the two big trades that went down in the last week: Jose Quintana to the Cubs for Eloy Jimenez, Matt Rose, Bryant Flete, and Dylan Cease; and David Robertson, Tommy Kahnle, and Todd Frazier to the Yankees in
The Ghost of Systems Past, or, Never Love Anything Read More »
We’ve vanquished another minor-league All-Star Break, which means we’ve officially made it past the halfway mark of the season. In week one, we took a ridiculous look at small-sample size performances and how they’d look if the players kept them up all year. Now that we’re almost 100 games in, we take to the equally
Time: Things change as it moves Read More »
Who doesn’t love All-Star games? Well, many people, for numerous reasons, but that’s beside the point. The major league All-Star Game is the true cream of the crop, literally the best of the best of the best. The Triple-A International League vs. Pacific Coast League All-Star Game is… similar. That roster typically comprises legitimate prospects
Hey Now: All-Stars that may or may not have broken the mold Read More »
