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• Angels help the White Sox to a sweep, 7-0

He was Flexen those pitching muscles today. | Michael Reaves/Getty Images Ozzie was right when he said Anaheim is a worse team Not satisfied with handing the White Sox a win Tuesday night by dropping a gimme popup, Angels infielder Jack Lopez tried to raise the ante on Thursday. Moving over to short for Zach Neto (who earlier had been injured being thrown out on the bases for the third tim...2024
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• Gamethread: Angels at White Sox

Almost certainly the last chance for him to play in Sox uniform at home | Photo by John McCoy/Getty Images Will the last home game be the one where the Mets record is beaten? The White Sox met their match in incompetence the last two games, but will this be the one where the Angels aren’t quite as awful and loss 121 is finally achieved? And will Yoán Moncada make an appearance in his last ...2024
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• Magic Number? Tragic Number? Down to six for WORST EVER

, yeah. | Denis Poroy/Getty Images Padres 6-2 win was easier than the final score indicated The final was 6-2, Padres, but don’t let that fool you. This was a rout in every sense. The White Sox had four hits, all singles (what new) — and just two through seven innings, as San Diego built a 4-0 lead and downshifted the way home. Lenyn Sosa continued to make a case to play for the AAAA 2025 ...2024
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• Beat the Streak Picks
The Log5 Method yields these top projected hit averages versus starting pitchers: 0.348 — Luis Arraez batting against Chris Flexen. 0.313 — Jackson Merrill batting against Chris Flexen. 0.307 — Jose Iglesias batting against Ranger Suarez. 0.305 — Luis Garcia Jr. batting against Kyle Hendricks. 0.300 — Donovan Solano batting against Chris Flexen. 0.299 — […...2024
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• Gamethread: A’s at White Sox

White Sox next official game against the A’s will be played here. | visitsacramento.com Could a two-game winning streak be possible? Thanks to a few inches that went their way, the White Sox last night ended their home losing streak and the string of losses when Chris Flexen started, no matter how hard the bullpen tried to keep those stretches going. Today they even have before them the po...2024
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• Gamethread: Athletics at White Sox

Matt Dirksen/Getty Images On the road to 116 The best chance the White Sox had to win a game in this series came and went yesterday, so cinch it up and hunker down tonight, Chris Flexen Night: Tonight's #WhiteSox starters: pic.twitter.com/80dOb9Zj2Q— Chicago White Sox (@whitesox) September 14, 2024 Miguel Vargas, who has been simply atrocious since coming to the White Sox — to be fai...2024
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• Angels help the White Sox to a sweep, 7-0
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• Royals Rumblings - News for September 3, 2024

Jay Biggerstaff-USA TODAY Sports Hey, how about a win? The Royals know they are in a funk, writes Anne Rogers. “There are certain times of the year when, for whatever reason, things just don’t go your way,” Massey said. “And you got to find a way in those stretches, when you’re not getting the big three-run homer, when you’re not getting the big hit with runners in scoring position, to ge...2024
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• The White Sox lost the game you waited 19.5 hours for

19.5 hours later... The Rangers and the league’s worst pitcher by losses take one from the South Siders, 3-1 The 2024 White Sox remain anomalous on levels no one could have imagined. Today’s game was not the first game of a doubleheader, much to the confusion of many. It was, in fact, the shortest suspended game in MLB history, clocking in at 19.5 hours between pitches. This was the first...2024
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• On The Horizon: Cubs vs. White Sox series preview

Photo by David Berding/Getty Images The Sox finally broke their losing streak. The Cubs need these wins. Something’s gotta give. You’ve all heard quite a bit about the White Sox’ terrible, awful, no good season, and I wrote more than 1,000 words about it here yesterday, so I won’t belabor it further. For more on the White Sox, here’s Chrystal O’Keefe, a managing editor at our SB Nation Whi...2024
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• Gamethread: Dodgers at White Sox

It’s a flex. | Quinn Harris/Getty Images Chris will be Flexen on the mound tonight and maybe dodgering lightning strikes Happy Tuesday, White Sox friends, and happy Chris Flexen day. With last night’s shutout loss, complete with rain delay, a remarkable yet fruitless Garrett Crochet start, and trade rumors galore, White Sox fans may feel like the vultures are circling above their heads. ...2024
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• Gamethread: White Sox at Diamondbacks

Not the best day for Chris Flexen. | Patrick Gorski-USA TODAY Sports It’s a brand new day and a brand new series Happy Friday, friends. Fresh off winning one game in overtime to avoid being swept by the Mariners, the White Sox look to start a winning streak against the Diamondbacks. There were a few transactions this afternoon. Tommy Pham was already in Arizona on a rehab assignment and ...2024
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• What hath Jerry wrought?

Not necessarily the type of trades coming up, but Chris Getz needs all the help he can get. A few notes on the Reinsdorfian world By losing the last game of the Boston series no matter how hard those Other Sox tried to give it away, the White Sox head west with a record of 17-49, a winning percentage that puts them right in line to tie or top the 1962 Mets for the most losses in the moder...2024
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• Blue Jays 3, White Sox 1: Days of Our Lives

“Winning White Sox pitcher” ... Fielder Jones. | Chicago Sun-Times/Chicago Daily News collection/Chicago History Museum/Getty Images You, me, the White Sox, we’re all on earth together, if nothing else. How rare are wins on the South Side these days? You search “winning White Sox pitcher” into our image database and it spits out a picture from the dead ball days; 15-42 is really a hell o...2024
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• The Ballad of the 2024 White Sox

Eternal game, decided early. | Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images Toronto takes another painful one from the South Siders Among the disgraceful 15-40 record, last-minute starting pitcher swap, the 40-minute rain delay before first pitch, and the clubhouse captain contention, the White Sox entered tonight’s match amid chaos. The White Sox keep making history in the worst way. A team so epically v...2024
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• Gamethread: White Sox at Yankees

Chris Flexen will look to pick up his third win of the season. | Matt Marton-USA TODAY Sports Old friend alert: Carlos Rodón will face his former team to secure the sweep Happy Sunday, Sox fans! Today, the Chicago White Sox will face the New York Yankees and hopefully come out of it with a win to avoid a series sweep in The Bronx. The Yankees are red-hot, and have slowed down the slight s...2024
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• Imagine being proud of beating the 2024 White Sox

Beautiful bastard Grady Sizemore is the new face of a (hopefully) new White Sox team. In a not-so-classic Crosstown, the South Siders still maintain a superior record overall against the Cubs Welcome to the second Crosstown Classic of the 2024 season, Chicago. You’ll find your respective sections of postgame coverage below, divided into sections for South Sider or North Sider. White Sox F...2024
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• Chicago is deplorable at baseball

Yeah right, like lightning will strike anywhere near either of these dead teams. | Jamie Sabau/Getty Images The second-worse team beats the first-worse team, but barely The Cubs are in possession of the Crosstown Cup, White Sox fans. Before today’s Crosstown opener on enemy territory, White Sox fans were served with a flurry of news, including the immediate return of Luis Robert Jr., just...2024
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"The Royals were stymied by White Sox starter Chris Flexen after that until the seventh inning, however."

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"Javier Assad will start for the Cubs and Chris Flexen gets the start for Colorado."

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"Ryan Divish of the Seattle Times tweets that known trade candidate Chris Flexen is not a…"

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"Former Mets starter Chris Flexen will lead the Seattle Mariners past the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday night."

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"The Mariners have agreed to a deal with right-hander Chris Flexen, reports Mike Mayer of MetsMerized (Twitter link)."

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"Right-hander Chris Flexen is set to join the Doosan Bears of the Korea Baseball Organization, reports Marc Carig of the Athletic (via Twitter)."

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"Starter Jason Vargas allowed five over three innings, while AJ Ramos and Chris Flexen allowed three earned runs apiece in relief."

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"Astros All-Star Carlos Correa will return to the lineup behind starter Mike Fiers for Sunday's series finale against Chris Flexen and the Mets at Minute Maid Park."

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• Outside The Confines: Matt Chapman signs a Giant deal

Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images The Giants lock up their third baseman. Alex Bregman should be happy. The Yankees don’t have a closer. The Guardians have the best closer. And other news from MLB. Good morning. The Cubs still haven’t allowed a hit since Tuesday. The Giants signed third baseman Matt Chapman to a six-year, $151 million extension. Chapman explained why he re-sign...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Just how bad are the White Sox?

Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images So bad they’re dragging down the average of the entire AL Central division. Happy Wednesday, friends! Here we are in September, and there are some fun stories making the rounds, so here’s what you can look forward to in today’s links: the White Sox have been brutally bad, but just HOW bad? Shohei Ohtani reaches historical highs, and experts are starting...2024
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• White Sox close it up late to only lose to the Orioles by 10, 13-3

108 is the number for an emergency ambulance in India. It should be in Chicago, too. Hey, you have to relish the big comebacks when they happen It was close there, for a moment, before season loss 108 sounded its siren. Maybe two moments, Heck, the White Sox even had an early lead, thanks to a couple of bloop singles to start the game, with Andrew Benintendi and Gavin Sheets coming through...2024
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• Cubs 7, White Sox 6: (°0°)

Photo by Griffin Quinn/Getty Images The Cubs raced out to a big lead, then hung on for dear life. (That’s a shocked face emoji in the headline, if it’s not clear to you.) “If the Cubs had lost THAT game...” some of you must have been saying. But they didn’t. Yes, they certainly tried hard to blow a 7-0 lead, but in the end hung on — barely — for a 7-6 win over the White Sox, their third wi...2024
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• Lewis Leads White Sox to 20th Straight Loss - Aug 5, 2024
Royce Lewis, 3B, MIN Lewis had another big day against the White Sox on Sunday, going 2-4 with a HR, 3 runs, and 3 RBI. His 3-run homer off Chris Flexen in the 2nd inning gave the Twins a 7-0 lead and all but ensured that the White Sox would be heading towards their 20th consecutive loss. Lewis continues to post absurd numbers on a per-game basis; in 9 games since returning from his most recent ...2024
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• The 2024 Chicago White Sox have a chance to be the worst team in MLB history

Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images It was just plain ol’ awful for the White Sox not that long ago. Now they have the chance to make some truly miserable history down the stretch. Well, folks! After a trade deadline that had more fireworks before the actual deadline than on the actual day and in this awkward period where nearly every team is adjusting to having newcomers on their squad,...2024
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• White Sox series preview: This team historically stinks!

Photo by Rich Storry/Getty Images The White Sox are one of the worst ever, and they’re getting worse. The White Sox are bad. Really bad. You thought they were bad before, but they’re even worse now. They dropped 19 of 22 this month, and are currently mired in a 14-game losing streak. They’re on pace to tie the 1962 Mets for most losses in modern history, and they will likely trade some of ...2024
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• Gamethread: White Sox at Rangers

Andrew Dieb-USA TODAY Sports Five losses away from a losing season ... and we’re still in July Here we are, back at it again, giving hope to another time that probably should have packed its bags on the season already. The third of this four-game set pits Chris Flexen against Nathan Eovaldi in as disadvantageous a matchup as you’re gonna get in this series. Sorry to keep beating this but ...2024
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• Angels help the White Sox to a sweep, 7-0
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• Gamethread: White Sox at Orioles

What the new Comiskey would have looked like if Jerry Reinsdorf had an iota of soul. | Baltimore Sun Rough day to try to end the losing streak So. The White Sox have lost ten in a row, matching the 1965 Mets as well as the 1962 version the Sox are hellbent on overtaking in total losses, that record of 120 sitting just 13 away. And now they face Baltimore. In Camden Yards. Not good. Trying ...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 118

Photo by Griffin Quinn/Getty Images This was quite the WPA contest. Check out the leverage index for this game! Hi there! It’s your substitute Heroes and Goats writer. As noted in the last installment, Thomas Smith is away and will return for the final game of the Blue Jays series next weekend. In his stead, I’m just going to post the chart for the game, the three heroes and three goats, a...2024
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• A crosstown conversation before the Crosstown Classic concludes

Crosstown Classic Trophy Check out Visiting Dugout before the game The Cubs will head to the South Side of Chicago for the last two games of this year’s Crosstown Classic this weekend on Friday and Saturday. It will result in a rare Sunday off day for the North Siders. As I’ve done for a few seasons now, I sat down with our friends from the Sox Populi podcast for an edition of their series...2024
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• The 2024 Chicago White Sox have a chance to be the worst team in MLB history
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• White Sox series preview: This team stinks!

Photo by Melissa Tamez/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The White Sox are having a historically bad season. The Chicago White Sox are an absolute mess of a baseball team. Chris Getz has taken the losing stench of the Royals teams he played for back in the day and has enhanced it in Chicago, giving White Sox fans a huge dose of terrible baseball. The team has already lost more games than th...2024
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• South Side Sox Player of the Week (June 7-13): Garrett Crochet

Mitch Ransdell/South Side Sox So, now for the bad news ... OK, so now for the bad news. Can’t say you didn’t know it was coming. The flip side of the miracle performance by Garrett Crochet is that, having never started in the majors before 2024 and in fact not even learning to manage a heavier workload in high school, the southpaw phenom will need plenty of rest as the season progresses. ...2024
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• South Side Sox Player of the Week (May 31-June 6): Paul DeJong

Homer power? Yeah, sorta Pardon any fan for not realizing this upon the White Sox signing of Paul DeJong, but when the shortstop plays a full season, he mashes homers. His rookie year, 2017, he clubbed 25. A sophomore slump knocked him down to 19. The 2019 season brought a massive 30. Then the pandemic came, and if nothing else, coincidentally, sucked away DeJong’s power. Now, that’s untrue, in th...2024
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• Bird App Recap: Crosstown Crapfest

Bad teams always find a way ... Hello White Sox faithful! Welcome to a special Crosstown edition of the Bird App Recap, featuring the best and brightest reaction tweets on the night. And by best and brightest, I do mean the absolute worst! ... Kidding! Maybe. It is that time of year again, when the South Siders trek eight miles north up the Red Line to pay their yearly visit to the ivy-covered pi...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Matt Chapman signs a Giant deal
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• Outside The Confines: Just how bad are the White Sox?
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• White Sox close it up late to only lose to the Orioles by 10, 13-3
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• Gamethread: Tigers at White Sox

Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images It’s a battle of fourth- and fifth-place teams, with worlds of difference between them The White Sox are back home to start a four-game set that collars the weekend. Here are the bats backing starter Chris Flexen tonight: Back home vs. the Tigers pic.twitter.com/7NX8rhpz4r— Chicago White Sox (@whitesox) August 23, 2024 Lineup construction is a massi...2024
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• Cub Tracks lets off steam

Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. The Cubs swept their Southside rivals for the third time and retain bragging rights for a year. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball, ...2024
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• Lewis Leads White Sox to 20th Straight Loss - Aug 5, 2024
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• The 2024 Chicago White Sox have a chance to be the worst team in MLB history
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• Starter Spotlight: Flexin On Flexen

7-13-24 – By Michael Castrignano – @412DoublePlay on X With a series-opening victory last night, the Pirates will look to keep the momentum going this afternoon against Chris Flexen, who has struggled out of the White Sox rotation with a 4.95 ERA through 91 innings this season. A bit of a journeyman, Flexen, on his third teamContinue reading "Starter Spotlight: Flexin On Flexen"...2024
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• Six Pack of Stats: Twins 8, White Sox 6 (11 innings)

Martín Maldonado, feeling froggy. | Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports a season-high 41 games worse than .500 At least loss No. 67 — dropping the White Sox to a season-worst 41 games worse than .500 — was a fight. The Twins move to 8-0 on the season against the White Sox, and realistically are licking their chops in anticipation of leaving town 10-0 vs. Chicago. Big Swing/Top Play ...2024
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• Cubs 5, Rockies 4: The cardiac Cubs come back

Photo by Dustin Bradford/Getty Images A ninth-inning rally put this one in the win column. You asked for meaningful baseball in September and by gum, you have got it. Now let’s hope we all survive it. The Cubs fashioned an early lead, got good starting pitching, then the bullpen blew that lead. But then the team put together a stirring ninth-inning rally and held on — barely — for a 5-4 wi...2023
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• Cubs 6, Rockies 3: Javier Assad and the comeback Cubs do it again

Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images The team came from behind with some timely hitting, and got some excellent relief work. This afternoon started out weirdly when Marcus Stroman barely got through three innings and the Cubs went behind and looked pretty weak sauce against Chris Flexen, a guy who came into the game with an ERA north of 7. But the persistent Cubs scored single runs in the fi...2023
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• Cubs 6, Rockies 0: Takin’ care of business

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images The Cubs need to win games... and here’s one they won in convincing fashion. With their recent skid, the Cubs have put themselves in a position where they pretty much have to win every single day the rest of the season, no matter how absurd that might seem. One day at a time is how they’ll have to take it, and Friday’s was a great effort pitching-wise, ...2023
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• Mariners To Acquire Teoscar Hernandez
9:52am: Seattle is sending right-handed reliever Erik Swanson and pitching prospect Adam Macko to the Blue Jays in the trade, Divish reports. 9:49am: TSN’s Scott Mitchell tweets that the Blue Jays will be getting bullpen help in return for Hernandez. Ryan Divish of the Seattle Times tweets that known trade candidate Chris Flexen is not a…...2022
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• Cubs 3, Mariners 2: Nico Hoerner walks it off
Photo by Jamie Sabau/Getty Images The Cubs blew a ninth-inning lead, but won in extras. In their first foray into extra innings in 2023, the Cubs got themselves in trouble in the top of the 10th, got out of it, then won quickly in the bottom of the inning on a line-drive single by Nico Hoerner, defeating the visiting Mariners 3-2. It was the team’s first walkoff win since August 20, 2022. ...2023
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• Mets send Flexen for finale in Houston
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• Royals top White Sox 3-0 to go over .500 for the first time since the second game of 2022

MJ Melendez #1 of the Kansas City Royals celebrates hitting a two-run home run against the Chicago White Sox during the seventh inning at Kauffman Stadium on April 6, 2024 in Kansas City, Missouri. | Photo by Kyle Rivas/Getty Images Michael Wacha was dominant and the Royals did just enough to win another one I could really get used to a Royals rotation that pitches like this one has so far...2024
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• Mets To Acquire Chris Flexen, Trevor Gott
The Mets are set to acquire right-handers Chris Flexen and Trevor Gott from the Mariners, reports Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic. Lefty Zach Muckenhirn, whom the Mets designated for assignment earlier today, will go back to Seattle in the deal. Flexen was designated for assignment last week. Originally a Mets draftee back in 2012, Flexen…...2023
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• Lewis Leads White Sox to 20th Straight Loss - Aug 5, 2024
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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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• AL Week 3 Strategy-April6, 2024
American League In The Field The Athletics have optioned OF Esteury Ruiz to Triple-A. This is huge news for those who drafted Ruiz to be a big part of their stolen base plan. He hit .254 with 5 HR and 67 SB last year in 132 GP but struggled in spring (.236 AVG with 31% K). The Athletics have said that they want him to lead off and play every day which is why he is at Triple-A. Something smells...2024
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• Dumpst ... I mean ... roster diving

The fate of the White Sox largely centers on the success of the players surrounding Luis Robert Jr. in the lineup. | Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images Let’s take an early-season look at [gestures wildly] THIS Staring down the barrel of this upcoming season, you might find yourself asking some very real and sincere questions about the makeup of your 2024 Chicago White Sox. Like, why were there o...2024
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• FanDuel: Finally Get To Start Flexing
I don't know about you but it has been an interesting season to say the least. It's been a lot of fun writing these posts here for you on Monday morning for the day's slates and I hope you were able to plug in a few players that helped you take down a slate or two or played a pitcher you were on the fence that got you to the money in the end. The Monday slates are a little different in that they a...2021

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• Gamethread: A’s at White Sox
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• Beat the Streak Picks
The Log5 Method yields these top projected hit averages versus starting pitchers: 0.310 — Yainer Diaz batting against Ryne Nelson. 0.308 — Jose Altuve batting against Ryne Nelson. 0.307 — Jackson Chourio batting against Kyle Freeland. 0.305 — William Contreras batting against Kyle Freeland. 0.303 — Jarren Duran batting against Chris Flexen. 0.303 — Bryan […...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Matt Chapman signs a Giant deal
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• Royals Rumblings - News for September 3, 2024
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• Gamethread: White Sox at Orioles
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• The White Sox lost the game you waited 19.5 hours for
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• Gamethread: Cubs at White Sox

Chris Flexen will be flexin’ those guns on the mound to try to even the score against the North Siders. | David Berding/Getty Images Grady’s Boys try to move the South Siders’ all-time winning percentage back to better than .500 Happy Saturday, White Sox fans. Yes, that’s right, today, we’re all White Sox fans again, regardless of how anyone feels about the state of the team. Today, we’re ...2024
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• Bird App Recap: Crosstown Crapfest
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• On The Horizon: Cubs vs. White Sox series preview

How long will this man last as Sox manager? | Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images The South Siders head to the North Side for a pair. You know, I was actually hoping the White Sox would beat the Brewers on Sunday. Not just because it would help the Cubs in the NL Central standings, but because the last thing the Cubs should want is to host a team on an 11-game losing streak. Sigh. Sox los...2024
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• South Side Sox Player of the Week (May 3-8): Garrett Crochet

Mitch Ransdell/South Side Sox After a dip that even seemed to threaten a trip to the bullpen, the southpaw is back, stronger than ever You can look at Garrett Crochet’s nine starts this season as an Oreo — if you’re in the habit of throwing away the mystery creme in the middle and just eating the cookies. The southpaw spun a masterful Opening Day start every bit as special as Mark Buehrle...2024
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• Gamethread: White Sox at Rays

Chris Flexen, like many of the Sox pitchers, is just bad | Peter Aiken-USA TODAY Sports A payback is in order for Tampa Bay Welcome to another edition of ‘How will the White Sox lose today?’ The Tampa Bay Rays are seeking redemption tonight, aiming to avenge the sweep they experienced last month at the hands of the South Siders. Let’s lead off with this season’s first veteran fire sale m...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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• A look at this year’s starting pitching free agent class

Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images Who wants some arms? The Royals will seek to improve on this year’s last place disaster, and the area they will most look to address is the pitching. The Royals got a 5.12 ERA from their starting pitchers, fourth-worst in baseball with the third-worst strikeout rate. General Manager J.J. Picollo has stated that he expects next year’s rotation to feature Cole...2023
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• 2023 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 145

Isaiah J. Downing-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs fumble the lead late, but bounce back to win 5-4. In the moment, I suspect Jordan Wicks would tell you that winning a game and the march towards the playoffs is what matters. That’s the right thing to say and is admirable. At the end of the day, it is a team sport. You win as a team and you win at a lose. It isn’t about individual accomplishments...2023
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