Bears Blog | Chicago Breaking Sports 12 hours ago
White Sox's Jose Abreu enjoys first All-Star start
White Sox first baseman Jose Abreu went 0-for-2 Tuesday in his first start in the All-Star Game, but was happy to be part of the team and representing the Sox. It was his second All-Star appearance, after playing in six All-Star games in his native Cuba. “It was a nice experience there, but it...
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South Side Sox 2 hours ago
The best managers in White Sox history
Little mention is made in the team annals of Jimmy Dykes, who is unquestionably the South Side’s greatest skipper In a baseball world increasingly defined by advanced stats, with WAR as an end-all, one major figure on the field gets somewhat overlooked: the manager. The task here is to dig deep into 118 Chicago White Sox seasons, assign a managerial WAR (let’s label it mWAR) for every season, in order to determine the best and worst managers in team history. How do you do that? Well, one method is to use pythagorean records (the number of wins a team should have based on run...
Bears Blog | Chicago Breaking Sports 3 hours ago
White Sox at the break: What's half full, what's half empty?
The White Sox were touted by some preseason pundits as a sleeper playoff contender. Instead they enter the All-Star break with a franchise-record 62 losses. Here are three reasons why their outlook is half full and three reasons why it’s half empty: Half full: young pitching As uneven as they have...
South Side Sox 12 hours ago
White Sox Minor League Update: July 17, 2018
Eloy Jimenez homers as Charlotte wins in walk-off fashion; Nick Madrigal shines in debut for Kannapolis Zangari Named Pioneer League Player of the Week https://t.co/4BKXt2nBNQ via @milb pic.twitter.com/7L3fjdUgPq— Great Falls Voyagers (@gfvoyagers) July 17, 2018 Leading off: Great Falls Voyagers 1B Corey Zangari was named Pioneer League Player of the Week for July 9-15. In six games, Zangari hit five home runs with 13 RBI. The 21-year-old Oklahoma native went 8-for-19 (.421) with one double, one triple and six runs scored. Zangari’s OBP for the week was .480. His five homers were...
Chicago Sun-Times 17 hours ago
White Sox’ Jose Abreu is the answer (few All-Stars have) to a trivia question
One in seven named Abreu as the only player other than Joe DiMaggio and Albert Pujols to tally 25 home runs and 100 RBI in his first four seasons.
South Side Sox 17 hours ago
Most Essential White Sox Vote: Wrap
Final count of Essentials: 22 rostered players, 28 on the farm Congratulations, Laz Rivera, you are the 50th most essential White Sox player! Rivera earned 37% (28 of 75 votes). Earlier this season, Rivera was named the 37th top prospect in the White Sox system, with 29% of the 37th vote. Ryan Cordell could never get over the hump, finishing second in voting on five different occasions. Welington Castillo was on the last 31 ballots, but neither advanced nor was dropped out of voting. With this 50th poll, it’s a wrap! Twenty-two of the Most Essential players are (or have been) on the...
South Side Sox Jul 17, 2018
White Sox Minor League Update: July 16, 2018
A walk-off grand slam for the Dash; Eloy Jimenez stays hot in second game back at Charlotte BREAKING: Just over a week & a 1/2 after signing, Nick Madrigal, @whitesox 4th overall pick out of Oregon State in this year’s MLB First-Year Player Draft, has been promoted to the Kannapolis Intimidators! Welcome to Kannapolis Nick! pic.twitter.com/nTwjH7rQhG— Kannapolis Intimidators (@Intimidators) July 16, 2018 Leading off: A couple of big promotions in the system including a quick one for White Sox 2018 first-round draft pick Nick Madrigal. Also: #WhiteSox 10th round pick...
South Side Sox Jul 16, 2018
Super Stats Pack: Team Stats
A bit of positive movement in the power categories, but otherwise, the White Sox rank about how you’d expect them to Well, it’s the All-Star break, time to revisit some of the hard-to-swallow stats from the first half. The White Sox team stats are given some context by including MLB rankings. Again, there is an additional column added that indicates where the White Sox ranked as of the last Stat Pack, to better see whether the team is trending up or down in particular areas. Offensively, the closest the White Sox are to the top of any category is stolen bases, fourth in the league, at...
Chicago Sun-Times Jul 16, 2018
Breaking down All-Star starters Javy Baez, Willson Contreras and Jose Abreu
With three starters, Chicago will be well-represented at the start of the All-Star Game on Tuesday in Washington.
Chicago Sun-Times Jul 16, 2018
White Sox’ Jose Abreu hopes to stay beyond 2019 — and win big — in Chicago
A year from now, might Abreu find himself in a similar position to the one the Orioles' Manny Machado is in now?
South Side Sox Jul 16, 2018
Dingerthread: 2018 MLB Home Run Derby
No White Sox clubbers, and just one AL participant, try to put some dents in seats at Nationals Park Weird lack of balance for the Home Run Derby, which gets underway at 7 p.m. CST: OK, so sure, the Derby is a goofy thing to begin with, but still, there’s no balance in representation between leagues (just one AL batter, Alex Bregman), and there are two Cubs. Yeah, there are more Cubs than there are AL hitters. There’s some new twist to the competition tonight, where hitters get more time to hit if they crush deeper blasts? It’s some kind of Statcast jive, I...
South Side Sox Jul 16, 2018
White Sox Weekly Minor League Update: Week 15
Familiar names are back on top, as the Sox farm system went on display in D.C Charlotte Knights Congrats to @ThyagoVieira40, who will represent the #CLTKnights at tonight's @TripleABaseball All-Star Game. Good luck, Thyago! pic.twitter.com/bJOsP5BlBi— Charlotte Knights (@KnightsBaseball) July 11, 2018 Seby Zavala: .333 BA, 1 R, 0 BB, 1 K Nick Delmonico: .389 BA, 2 R, 4 BB, 4 K Michael Kopech: 6 IP, 0.16 FIP, 16.50 K/9, 1.50 BB/9 ***MVP of the Week*** Jordan Stephens: 5 IP, 2.32 FIP, 12.60 K/9, 5.40 BB/9 Carson Fulmer: 5 IP, 5.91 FIP, 5.40 K/9, 1.80 BB/9 Spencer Adams: 4 IP, 7.57...
Chicago Sun-Times Jul 16, 2018
Every Home Run Derby appearance by Cubs and White Sox players, ranked
From Sammy Sosa's dud in 1999 to his triumph a year later, let's rank all 18 performances by Cubs and White Sox players in the Home Run Derby.
Bears Blog | Chicago Breaking Sports Jul 16, 2018
Modern Love: Twitter brings @MichaelKopech5 and @VanessaMorgan together
White Sox pitching prospect Michael Kopech and actress Vanessa Morgan met in the most 2018 way possible. “She found me on Instagram,” Kopech told the Tribune. “And then she followed me on Twitter. When a verified account follows you, you get a notification. So I got one and instantly followed her...
Bears Blog | Chicago Breaking Sports Jul 16, 2018
White Sox prospect Michael Kopech on Triple-A experience
White Sox prospect Michael Kopech discusses his experience pitching in Triple A with the Charlotte Knights on Friday, July 13, 2018, at Durham Athletic Park in Durham, N.C. (Teddy Greenstein/Chicago Tribune)
