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• You miss baseball? The wait is almost over!

The action starts soon! Opening Day is March 27! | Melissa Sage-Bollenbach/South Side Sox Hold on to your hats because the 2025 season starts in just 50 days With Opening Day just 50 days away, a glimmer of hope shines through this mid-week hump day. As a Sox fan, the start of a new season can be a bittersweet time – a reminder of the past few years’ struggles alongside the promise of a f...2025
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• White Sox news and notes: Is it spring yet?

The Birmingham Barons (Double-A) captured the Southern League Championship in 2023. It was their first since 2013. | Birmingham Barons/Instagram Farm system rankings and PECOTA projections It’s still winter, and in baseball, when we don’t have other things to discuss, like exciting acquisitions, we talk about rankings, projections, and grades — you know — all the really fun stuff. Let’s...2025
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• ESPN’s Kiley McDaniel releases Top 100 MLB prospects: White Sox slot in with six

Top prospect Noah Schultz takes a selfie with a White Sox Volunteer Corp member at SoxFest Live 2025 last weekend. | Noah Schultz/Instagram When you lose 121 games, you need to write about something Is it possible to write too much about prospects? Yes, yes, it is. But when your team stinks and makes no significant offseason moves, it leaves you scrounging for scraps. Yesterday, I wrote...2025
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• 2025 South Side Sox Top Prospect No. 54: Shawn Goosenberg

Shawn Goosenberg has been a superutilityman over four years in the White Sox system, playing everywhere on the diamond but center field and catcher. | Winston-Salem Dash This versatile performer will need to rediscover his stroke on offense against the challenge of Double-A pitching Shawn Goosenberg First Baseman6´0´´195 poundsAge: 252022 South Side Sox Top Prospect Ranking 712023 South Si...2025
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• Today in White Sox History: January 24

On this day seven years ago, Jim Thome was elected to the Hall of Fame on his first try. | Jim McIsaac/Getty Images Jim Thome makes the Hall! 1939 It was the early years of the Hall of Fame, so voting results could still tend to be pretty weird. Case in point, Eddie Collins was voted into the Hall of Fame — on his fourth try. Collins, by his 124.4 WAR the best second baseman in baseball hi...2025
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• 2025 South Side Sox Top Prospect No. 56: Mario Camilletti

Mario Camilletti was an on-base machine during his stretch run with the Birmingham Barons. | Birmingham Barons Without a power game to speak of, this second sacker will need to pick up his contact skills to pair with an elite on-base game Mario Camilletti Second Baseman5´9´´195 poundsAge: 242023 South Side Sox Top Prospect Ranking 502024 South Side Sox Top Prospect Ranking 402024 High Leve...2025
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• 2025 South Side Sox Prospect Vote: Round 20

Michael Reaves/Getty Images After much delay, Jairo Iriarte tops our Round 19 ballot. So, who is the 20th-best prospect in the White Sox system? Well, finally, people: Jairo Iriarte — possibly the best pitcher currently on the White Sox roster — advances, with 46 of 226 votes (20%): Iriarte becomes the final player to advance from our initial, 10-man ballot that started our Pr...2025
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• 2025 South Side Sox Prospect Vote: Round 19

Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images Wilfred Veras tops our Round 18 ballot. So, who is the 19th-best prospect in the White Sox system? Longtime SSS favorite Wilfred Veras made relatively quick work of the poll, advancing in his third ballot, earning 36 of 213 votes (17%): Right field is definitely the position of outfield strength in the White Sox system, at least when i...2025
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• 2025 South Side Sox Prospect Vote: Round 18

Maddie Malhotra/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images Wikelman Gonzalez tops our Round 17 ballot. So, who is the 18th-best prospect in the White Sox system? The Garrett Crochet trade to Boston is laid to rest this round, at least in the Prospect Vote sense, as Wikelman Gonzalez advances with 45 of 214 votes (21%): While Ryan Teel (voted No. 8) and Braden Montgomery (No. 9) were hurt by ...2025
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• 2025 South Side Sox Prospect Vote: Round 17

Rick Osentoski-Imagn Images Bryan Ramos tops our Round 16 ballot. So, who is the 17th-best prospect in the White Sox system? With surprisingly low overall positioning, Bryan Ramos had a very easy time of it, taking 45 of 211 votes (21%): And yep, suddenly it’s third base fever, as we went 14 rounds without adding anyone from the hot corner before going back-to-back with Alexan...2025
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• 2025 South Side Sox Prospect Vote: Round 15

Birmingham Barons Tyler Schweitzer tops our Round 14 ballot. So, who is the 15th-best prospect in the White Sox system? For the third time this election cycle, a surprise, first-ballot prospect has won the Vote, this time Tyler Schweitzer stepping into the fray with a win, taking 41 of 203 votes (20%): This is the third time Schweitzer has been in our Prospect Vote; in 2023 he...2024
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• 2025 South Side Sox Prospect Vote: Round 14

Chuck Garfien/Twitter George Wolkow tops our Round 13 ballot. So, who is the 14th-best prospect in the White Sox system? This round, 2023 draft coup George Wolkow was the decided winner, running away with the vote in our usual 200ish ballots by taking 49 of 204 votes (24%): Wolkow moved up one slot from his debut position on the ballot in 2024 (No. 14). He’s the second right f...2024
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• White Sox Minor League Update: April 12, 2024

Have a day, Edgar Quero! The organization’s top catching prospect had a lot to smile about after a two-homer game. | Salina Rae Silver / South Side Sox Edgar Quero belts two longballs while Colson Montgomery launches his first homer at the Triple-A level Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp 7, Charlotte Knights 5 (Gameday Score) (Statcast Box)Colson, Chuckie, and Danny went yard in Charlotte’s two-r...2024
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"The Birmingham Barons (Double-A) captured the Southern League Championship in 2023."

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"590 slash line since unexpectedly breaking camp with the Double-A Birmingham Barons."

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"(22-42) Birmingham Barons 5, (31-32) Mississippi Braves 2 Jesse Franklin V 0-4, 3 K Drew Campbell 3-4, 1 RBI, 1 K Alan Rangel, SP, 5 IP, 6 H, 5 ER, 4 BB, 4 K Despite picking up seven hits, five Braves batters went hitless, and they only were able to scratch across two runs."

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"com/nvA1EV7bSk— Birmingham Barons (@BhamBarons) August 15, 2022 Oscar Colás homered as well, his ninth."

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"A former Birmingham Barons bat boy has filed a civil lawsuit against longtime major league player Omar Vizquel, accusing him of sexual harassment while he was managing the Chicago White Sox minor league affiliate."

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"His Airness traded a Bulls jersey for a Birmingham Barons uniform in 1994"

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"Jordan played for the Birmingham Barons, the Double-A affiliate of the Chicago White Sox."

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"— Birmingham Barons shortstop Eddy Alvarez has a "hidden secret."

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"" In roughly the year leading up to his return, Jordan had really only played pickup basketball with his teammates on the Birmingham Barons minor league baseball team."

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"A new stadium has lured the Class AA Birmingham Barons back from the suburbs, as well as the author’s mother-in-law, an old fan of her hometown team."

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• White Sox news and notes: Is it spring yet?
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• 2025 South Side Sox Top Prospect No. 54: Shawn Goosenberg
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• Today in White Sox History: January 24
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• 2025 South Side Sox Top Prospect No. 56: Mario Camilletti
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• 2025 South Side Sox Prospect Vote: Round 20
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• White Sox News and Notes: January 8

Southpaw Martín Pérez will slot in nicely to Chicago’s young starting rotation. | Chris Coduto/Getty Images Chicago gets an arm and an infielder, SoxFest update Well, you can't say that Chris Getz has been sitting on his hands this offseason, that's for sure. However, you CAN definitely articulate that what he has done hasn't been earth-shattering. Nonetheless, here's the rundown of what'...2025
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• 2025 South Side Sox Prospect Vote: Round 19
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• 2025 South Side Sox Prospect Vote: Round 18
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• 2025 South Side Sox Prospect Vote: Round 17
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• White Sox news and notes: Is it spring yet?
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• 2025 South Side Sox Prospect Vote: Round 20
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• 2025 South Side Sox Prospect Vote: Round 15
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• 2025 South Side Sox Prospect Vote: Round 14
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• 2025 South Side Sox Prospect Vote: Round 6

Stacy Revere/Getty Images Who is the sixth-best prospect in the White Sox system? It is the eighth year of Top Prospect voting at South Side Sox! First, let’s review past years: Here’s how 2018 wrangled out — all 42 picks. Also, here’s an archive of every article in the 2018 series. Here’s how 2019 came together, all 50 picks, and the archive as well. Now 2020, with the archive. Here’s...2024
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• White Sox Minor League Update: April 25, 2024

The red-hot Brooks Baldwin rounds third to score in Chattanooga versus the Lookouts. | S. R. Silver/South Side Sox Brooks Baldwin cannot be stopped, Lenyn Sosa continues to mash, and other storylines from the farm Lehigh Valley IronPigs 7, Charlotte Knights 6 (Gameday score) (Statcast box)Lenyn Sosa was demoted three days ago. He seems to have taken that personally. LENYN. SOSA. HOME. ...2024
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• Braves Minor League Recap: Spencer Schwellenbach strikes out 8

Photo by Kelly Gavin/MLB Photos via Getty Images Schwellenbach dominated early in a Rome win It was a solid day for the pitching prospects in the Atlanta Braves system, with a trio of talented arms taking the mound on Saturday. Hurston Waldrep pitched a gem for Mississippi, but it was Spencer Schwellenbach who led the system in strikeouts and whiffs. (9-11) Gwinnett Stripers 2, (10-10) Me...2024
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• White Sox Minor League Update: April 6, 2024

The Knights were trounced again on Saturday, but nonetheless were winners with their Negro Leagues tribute to the Charlotte Black Hornets. Knights bench coach Pat Listach, whose grandfather Nora played in the Negro Leagues, brought out the lineup card pregame. | Laura Wolff/Charlotte Knights Three wins! A starter with 10 Ks! A leadoff man with five hits! A starter with five no-hit innings...2024
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• The institutional idiocy of dropping José Rodríguez

José Rodríguez in 2023, wondering why he was called up to the White Sox for a week to pinch-run in one game. | Melissa Tamez/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Scrap heap arms > speed-power middle infielder, got it, White Sox There are a lot of other things I need to be doing for South Side Sox late tonight (early a.m., actually), but Thursday’s move requires some follow-up. Oh, you thin...2024
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• 'I'm Back!': Untold Tales of Michael Jordan's 1st Return to the NBA 20 Years Ago
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• Michael Jordan's baseball teammates explain why he could've reached MLB and what MJ was like in Double-A
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• Olympic Speedskating Silver Medalist Eddy Alvarez Now Making MLB Push
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• A Game of Groans

Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images Much like the smash hit TV series about a quest for power, the 8th season of the White Sox rebuild is letting fans down. But even after a historically bad start, showrunner Jerry Reinsdorf appears keen to do nothing but watch it burn. Chaos is a Ladder Jerry Reinsdorf — the beleaguered owner of the Chicago White Sox — grimaced in disgust as he watched his team ...2024
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• Braves Minor League Recap: Vaughn Grissom continues to surge
Photo by Megan Briggs/Getty Images Grissom has been red hot during the month of June. The Atlanta Braves minor league organization struggled badly on the day. They lost four of their six games and two or fewer runs in three of them. In addition to that organization’s best offensive prospect continued his season-long struggles and one of their best minor league starters on the season had ar...2023
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• This Day in Braves History: Chipper helps Atlanta snap losing streak
Photo by Bob Levey/Getty Images Braves Franchise History 2012 - Chipper Jones homers in his first game of the year to help the Braves to a 6-4 win over the Houston Astros. The win snaps a nine-game losing streak that dates back to their collapse at the end of the 2011 season which cost them a playoff spot. Tyler Pastornicky hit his first major league homer for Atlanta in the win. MLB His...2023
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• White Sox Minor League Update: April 19, 2024

Juan Carela pitched five innings of one-hit ball for Winston-Salem. | Salina Rae Silver/South Side Sox Danny Mendick cannot be stopped, Juan Carela’s offspeed baffles, and Ryan Galanie locks in Charlotte Knights 5, Syracuse Mets 1 (Gameday box) (Statcast box)For the second straight night, the Charlotte Knights posted five runs en route to a win against the Syracuse Mets. And for the fourt...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: January 24
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• 2025 South Side Sox Prospect Vote: Round 20
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• White Sox News and Notes: January 8
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• 2025 South Side Sox Prospect Vote: Round 19
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• White Sox Minor League Update: April 25, 2024
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• Time to rearrange the deck chairs again

White Sox GM Chris Getz hated last year’s team. I can’t imagine he feels much better about this one. | Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports This year’s Chicago White Sox team is historically pathetic, even by Reinsdorfian standards. Something has to change While Rob Colletti’s analysis yesterday showed why (if you didn’t already know) the problem with the White Sox starts at the top with cha...2024
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• The problem with Chris Getz

Chris Getz with Garrett Crochet in 2020, when he already had defense of Omar Vizquel on his record. | Ron Vesely/Getty Images And a reminder that under Jerry Reinsdorf, things can always get worse Content warning: this article discusses alleged sexual assault. It may be emotionally upsetting and difficult to read. The White Sox are broken. They are on track for 100 losses, with very lit...2023
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• White Sox Minor League Player of the Week (August 29-September 4): Logan Glass
Logan Glass shatters his line after a good week. | Kannapolis Cannon Ballers Some unlikely names stood out among our best of the week Logan Glass hits his 6th HR of the year. #Ballers tied at 1. #WhiteSox pic.twitter.com/2wddlzc5QV— White Sox Daily (@dailywhitesox) September 3, 2022 Sometimes, one of the non-top prospects has a really good week that is impossible to ignore. Logan Gla...2022
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• Vizquel sued by ex-bat boy for sexual harassment
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• Birmingham Barons batboy sues Omar Vizquel for sexual harassment

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• Minnesota Twins set to call up Miguel Sano
The Minnesota Twins are dipping into their farm system once again this season as they hope calling up their number two overall prospect, Miguel Sano, will bring a spark to their lineup. Sano earns the call up after hitting 15 home runs and 48 RBIs with a .374 on-base percentage in the Twins’ AA affiliate, the Chattanooga Lookouts. The call up was first reported by Twins’ beat writer, Rhett Bolling...2015
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