The 2015 White Sox
Not to indicate a diminished level of excitement for this year’s team–how can we ever write off the chances of a team with superior health maintenance and a perennially top 10 payroll competing…Read More
Actual White Sox baseball, and a shocking realization
Saturday afternoon brings about the first instance of the White Sox playing a baseball game against another professional team. They played each other recently, but apparently it was terrible and Keenyn…Read More
Southside Showdown Preseason Roundtable Pt. 3
Continued from earlier, our nervous bantering together What are you excited about this season? Are you still physically capable of getting excited? Nick Schaefer: I’m really excited (and simultaneously,…Read More
Southside Showdown Preseason Roundtable Pt. 2
Continuing the roundtable discussion from this morning, it is asked… What are our expectations for the season? Thank God for the second wild card giving us a reason to take the hose off the exhaust…Read More
Southside Showdown Preseason Roundtable Pt. 1
With the podcast up and on its way, the roundtable format might be on its last legs, since its easier to get the whole staff on the same topic via Skype than with harassing emails. But for at least one…Read More
PECOTA and you: an unlikely friendship
So let’s leave it alone, ’cause we can’t see eye to eye. There ain’t no good…Read More
Michael Bourn threatens the White Sox death-grip on second place
If there’s been a comfort in the White Sox mediocrity in recent years, where they have repeatedly…Read More
John Danks update, and smashing misconceptions with the blunt end of a hatchet
I don’t normally make a habit of scouring ESPN beat writer chats for new information but the mood…Read More
Brent Morel, come on down
Rolling into the season with Brent Morel as the entrenched starting third basemen last season didn’t…Read More
Betcha been curious about what Dylan Axelrod has been up to!
Dylan Axelrod‘s continued presence on the plane of White Sox existence fits in nicely with every…Read More
Debunking the Development Fallacy
It always pops up around this time of year; the time when the offseason winds down and spring training…Read More
White Sox notes: You should love home runs AND computers
In the first two years of the Kenny Williams era, 2001 and 2002, the White Sox as a team posted an above-average…Read More
SoxFest body update
Baseball, and certainly its analysis, can be intensely cerebral and strategic. But ultimately it’s…Read More
Pre-SoxFest news blitz
This is pretty much the same title and topic as yesterday’s post, but in preparation of this weekend’s…Read More
Pre-SoxFest White Sox notebook, except on the computer
The front office positivism train is rolling into the station in time for SoxFest this weekend. Now…Read More
Feeling Bullish on the Bullpen
The White Sox recent signing of free agent relief pitcher Matt Lindstrom not only reminded me that the…Read More
Adam Dunn is still fouling off pitches
Back in 2011, analysts were awash in statistics–in different ways and measures–that represented…Read More
White Sox doomed for regression? Responding to Jeff Passan’s analysis
National sportswriters can have a difficult job at times. When they focus on specific teams, they’re…Read More
Alex Rios in the World Baseball Classic and his expensive coffeemaker
After all this time spent worrying about young White Sox pitchers having a handful of innings handed…Read More
Rick Hahn readies for SoxFest
It’s amusing to hear Rick Hahn talk about being geared up and ready for a sprited SoxFest discussion…Read More





















