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White Sox issue Veal recall after optioning Heath

South Side Sox — It was only 17 days ago that Donnie Veal lost his spot in the White Sox bullpen. An inability to find the strike zone -- especially against lefties -- forced the Sox to option him to Triple-A, with Brian Omogrosso coming up from Charlotte to take his place. Veal took the bad news well: @captainomo Congrats buddy! — Donnie Veal (@RealDVeal) May 1, 2013 Just got optioned to triple A Charlotte.Not happy, but definitely motivated.I'll be back in Chicago and even better when I return! — Donnie Veal (@RealDVeal) May 1, 2013 He also made good use of his return to Charlotte, beca...

7 hours ago

Right on Q: The White Sox and "Star Trek"

South Side Sox — South Side Sox is a place on the internet where baseball fans obsess over their favorite team. We like the internet (after all, it's the thing that binds us all together), and we like poring over the slightest details in a much larger enterprise, it's safe to say a fair number of us will be seeing "Star Trek Into Darkness" this weekend. "Into Darkness" is the 12th installment in the Star Trek movie franchise, but only the fifth movie to be released during the summer; which means only five Star Trek movies have been released during baseball season. Throughout the 1980's, the White Sox ...

11 hours ago

White Sox 3, Angels 0: Chris Sale sequel a welcome addition to franchise

South Side Sox — Chris Sale's performance tonight couldn't quite match his one-hitter from Sunday. He didn't go the distance, and he allowed way more baserunners, and even had to escape a jam. In terms of stuff, though, he bested himself. It took Sale a couple innings to hit his stride, which put 98 pitches out of the question. He issued a pair of walks in the first inning to spoil the perfect game bid, and lost the no-hitter on Howie Kendrick's leadoff single in the second. But he erased Kendrick with a double play, and after freezing Hank Conger with a slider to end the inning, he was 35 pitches deep...

16 hours ago

The first White Sox 2013 mock draft roundup

South Side Sox — With the MLB draft three weeks away, the mock drafts are beginning to roll in with some semblance of conviction. This is usually when I start my reading on the subject, because I prefer waiting until there's a firmer pool of possibilities to sift through. The early impression is that it's the same impression. The evaluators and outlets are running with the White Sox's traditional love of toolsy outfielders, with a nod toward pitchers who can be pushed. But with Rick Hahn at the helm for the first time, it'll be interesting to see if the Sox end up defying their profile with the 17th-ov...

May 17, 2013

Ruminations on Jeff Keppinger's first walk

South Side Sox — Across the AL Central, the division's three other hopefuls have benefited from hot starts by their significant outside acquisitions. For the Indians, Nick Swisher is having a Nick Swisher season, and Mark Reynolds is blowing the doors off his early projections. Torii Hunter did the same in April for Detroit, although he's cooled off in May. James Shields is leading the Royals' rotation like they hoped, and Ervin Santana's ERA is below 3.00, too. It's like the other AL Central teams have faith that their operating systems will be able to integrate outside additions as easily as plug-and...

May 17, 2013

White Sox 5, Angels 4: Jeff Keppinger makes first walk count

South Side Sox — For at least one day, Jeff Keppinger was a difference-maker. Fittingly, it took place in a game with turns hinging on unlikely events. And by "unlikely," I mostly mean "foolish." Keppinger capped off a three-run eighth with a bases-loaded walk that capped off a three-run eighth. The Sox overcame a 4-2 deficit with the late rally, and they have a three-game winning streak to show for it. They needed the Angels' help, but there's a reason why the Angels have a worse record than the Sox. Alejandro De Aza and Alexei Ramirez started with back-to-back singles. But Mike Trout turned Ramirez's...

May 16, 2013

Adam Dunn sees success by looking away

South Side Sox — Going back through old clips of Adam Dunn to see if I could see anything ostensibly different about his swing, I came across this homer against Tanner "We Named The Dog" Scheppers on April 30: Steve Stone's commentary caught my ear: We highlighted him before the game as a guy in the last four games who has started to swing the bat a whole lot better. Dunn extended his hitting streak to five with that solo shot, which was the third homer over that period, so nothing that Stone said was wrong. Hindsight just isn't kind to it. Dunn's hitting streak ended the next day, and he fell into a...

May 16, 2013

White Sox 9, Twins 4: Dunn, offense finally explode

South Side Sox — On their 38th try of 2013, the White Sox finally scored more than seven runs in a game. Although if Adam Dunn and Alex Rios can keep hitting the way they today, eight runs isn't going to look like such a remarkable accomplishment in a couple weeks. Rios set up Twins pitching, and Dunn knocked it down. Both went 3-for-4, and both were dynamic 3-for-4's. Rios hit three scalded line drives, one for a triple. He also drew a walk, stole a base and scored three runs. He was able to cross the plate thanks to the guy behind him. Dunn hit a pair of homers along with a double, walked, and drove...

May 15, 2013

White Sox 4, Twins 2: Double orders make a difference

South Side Sox — Unhappy with the piss-poor defensive eforts in three of the past four games (all losses), Robin Ventura made his players go through a full defensive practice in full uniform five hours before first pitch. It will take some time to see if any lessons will sink in, but the earliest return is promising -- a rather solid (for the Sox) 4-2 victory over the Twins. A sound inning on offense made the difference. With the game tied at 2, Dewayne Wise led off the inning by legging out a double to center. Tyler Flowers followed with a double of his own to left to give the Sox a 3-2 lead. Alejandr...

May 15, 2013

Struggling White Sox hitter confidence index

South Side Sox — The White Sox are solidly in mid-May now, but their offense still hasn't departed from Phoenix Sky Harbor. They occupy the cellar across the board so many important offensive categories -- runs, doubles, batting average, on-base percentage, slugging percentage -- that it's a wonder that they're 16-21, and not 11-26. (Good news, though -- they moved past the Kansas City Royals in walks!) Worse yet, there are no real signs of a teamwide turnaround approaching. Only the Houston Astros are worse when it comes to OPS and its components over the first two weeks of May. It's easy to see why -...

May 15, 2013

Terrerobytes: The short-lived afterglow of Chris Sale's one-hitter

South Side Sox — It's a shame Chris Sale can't pitch every other day, because he's one of the few players on the White Sox who commands the non-Sox world's attention. Not all of it was good -- see the previous post -- but that was just one of three FanGraphs posts about the Sox on Monday. Likewise, Buster Olney devoted just about his entire Baseball Tonight podcast to interviews with Sale, Jake Peavy and Don Cooper. All three are good interviews, but the segment with Peavy has the most to offer, because he goes into detail about his surgery and the mechanical problems that preceded it. I'm glad Peavy h...

May 14, 2013

For White Sox, pitching and defense don't go together

South Side Sox — Hawk Harrelson elicited plenty of derisive chortles and sneers for his attack on sabermetrics and his establishment of TWTW, and for good reason -- It was a stubborn and underinformed perspective on an aspect of the game he already had written off for personal reasons. Given that his stance on stats is such a fat target and can be picked apart by dabblers in sabermetrics, it's surprising that Dave Cameron would jump on the pile this late and miss this badly. The headline on his Monday afternoon post at FanGraphs is correct ("Pitching and defense wins, as long as you can also hit"), and...

May 14, 2013

Twins 10, White Sox 3: Errors on one side, Aaron on the other

South Side Sox — Today's game came down to one play missed, and one play made. Even if you missed the game, you know which team missed the play. Hector Santiago was on the verge of escaping a bases-loaded, nobody-out situation when he got Justin Morneau to hit a grounder past the third-base side of the mound. Alexei Ramirez was shaded toward second. He ranged toward the bag, snagged the ball with his glove, and tried to make his usual flip to second to start a 6-4-3. Instead, Ramirez stubbed his glove on the ground and left the ball behind him. Instead of getting two outs, the White Sox allowed the Twi...

May 13, 2013

Dayan Viciedo, paragon of patience

South Side Sox — Back in July of 2011, Dayan Viciedo reaggravated a thumb injury that he suffered during spring training. It interrupted what was a dynamic season at Charlotte, and when he came back, he returned a vastly different hitter. It's pretty easy to spot when the injury occurred when you look at his monthly splits from firstinning.com: Month PA BA OBP SLG BB% K% April 93 .239 .269 .386 4.3 19.4 May 121 .352 .413 .620 7.4 14.0 June 121 .379 .405 .560 4.1 20.7 July 75 .197 .347 .344 17.3 13.3 August 94 .244 .362 .449 14.9 13.8 Viciedo's free-swinging firepower was replaced by sud...

May 13, 2013

Eight starts in, Chris Sale is right on track

South Side Sox — Chris Sale reached the quarter pole of his second full season as a starter in rather ho-hum fashion. All he did was one-hit the Angels for his first career shutout, needing only 98 pitches to do it. Here are the highlights, if you missed the game for some stupid reason: Your browser does not support iframes. When you look at Sale through eight starts in his first season to the second, his Cy Young stats are a bit diminished, but nine shutout innings almost has him caught up: W-L ERA IP H HR BB K WHIP BAA BABIP 2012* 5-2 2.50 50.1 39 3 14 46 1.05 .209 .261 2013 4-2 2.88 56.1 41 6...

May 13, 2013

MLB Amateur Draft 2013 Countdown

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