This new extended timeline for offseason deals sure makes for an awkward Spring Training. Beyond competing for playing time, this weekend's trade chatter c...
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It's either nothing baseball games or nothing trade rumors this time of year, soooo: <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">...
<strong><a href=" " target="_blank">Ervin Santana</a></strong> is probably signing with the <a href=" &...
All offseason it seemed unlikely that the re-tooling White Sox, looking to trade everything that isn't tied down or cannot help them, would convert two mid...
If <strong><a target="_blank" href=" ">Jeff Keppinger</a></strong> had been a more anticipated, more revered, m...
Somewhere between <a href=" " target="_blank">Matt Lindstrom's oblique</a> and <strong><a target="_blank"...
Before the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference transitioned into a long afternoon of listening to Malcolm Gladwell talk, MLB Advanced Media offered an in...
We've spent all season being pumped about how Rick Hahn overhauled half of the offense in one offseason of work, but the first look at a lineup reminded me...
<a href=" " target="_blank">The White Sox claimed right-handed pitcher Maikel Cleto</a> of...
It's always hard to completely discount the urge to pay attention to the first new level of baseball gameplay. Even when we know it's meaningless. <stro...
Spring is always awash in stories trumpeting reasons for optimism for seemingly every human making the rounds in the team's Spring facility. They're mostly...
Recently there was an anecdote about White Sox hitters taking live batting practice off Chris Sale at Spring Training. The reports tried to shield everyone...
I suppose <a href=" " target="_blank">Scott Merkin is only burying the lede here</a> if I presume he looked at pre-season p...
This is a detestably lazy post, but not <em>the </em>laziest post ever. I'm going to aggregate questions I answered for other blogs here. In ...
In the Spring, every possible box on the positivity checklist is marked, so perhaps there's no real reason to pay any more attention to claims that the pos...
It's probably not good practice, nor a good sign personally for me after four seasons of blogging, to still be getting embroiled in a dissection of Hawk Ha...
The 2014 season is beginning soon, so naturally we're all looking for reasons to be excited about what we're going to witness for the next six-to-seven mon...
<a href=" " target="_blank">Ken Rosenthal's article surveying MLB executives</a> on how they would feel about employing a g...
Not to oversell this, because Spring Training--no matter what--always reveals itself to be a lifeless, unsatisfying slog. Once you work through the thrill ...
I'm not here to pen polemics, or try to tell you that the unrelenting sloppiness of the 2013 White Sox wasn't real or a pain that we all endured as a 'comm...