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• Lack of offensive progress a growing indictment of GM Getz’s record

The hang-dog look on Brooks Baldwin’s face after a strikeout reflects the sense of dread White Sox fans have about ever again developing a major league force on offense. | Lauren Leigh Bacho/MLB Photos via Getty Images While the pitching has progressed, there is nothing in the cupboard when it comes to the White Sox bats Compared to most of my South Side Sox colleagues, I’ve been on the su...2025
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• White Sox injuries force bevy of moves

Mike Tauchman re-injured himself in the most distinctive way possible — getting thrown out at home to end Wednesday’s loss. | David Richard-Imagn Images Gilded Charlotte prospects passed over, again, to keep the MLB roster AAAA quality Andrew Benintendi’s injury already stretched the nonexistent depth in the White Sox high minors, getting Colorado Rockies castoff Greg Jones Jr. to the big ...2025
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• The aggressive arrogance of the mediocre

Justin Casterline/Getty Images Endemic to our world today, as White Sox fans it’s hitting us right between the eyes The White Sox were defeated on Tuesday in Cleveland’s home opener, in embarrassing fashion: 1-0, lost in a punchless bottom of the ninth that saw the highest-leverage reliever in the bullpen give up a single and three walks to hand the game to the Guardians. The club has lost...2025
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• Do all roads lead to despair for the White Sox under Jerry Reinsdorf’s ownership?

Jerry Reinsdorf, presiding. | Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images There is only one possible happy ending for the team, and it’s an unlikely one All optimism for the Chicago White Sox’s 2025 season has been extinguished as rapidly as it was built up. The Sox started the season strong with an Opening Day win over the Angels, but Chicago is back to disappointing fans as the sole owners of last place...2025
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• 2025 Kannapolis Cannon Ballers Preview

Your 2025 Kannapolis Cannon Ballers! | Kannapolis Cannon Ballers The next wave of White Sox stars are set to ignite The Kannapolis Cannon Ballers, the Low-A affiliate of the Chicago White Sox, should have an intriguing 2025 season, building upon their successful 2024 campaign in which they won the Carolina South Division championship. With a roster of promising prospects, can the coa...2025
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• White Sox fans will face another unexpected year even after surprising Opening Day win

Yes, despite the Opening Day win the road ahead for the White Sox is long, pretty empty, and possibly headed to nowhere. | Joseph Weiser/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images It’s better to be in first place than not, but strap it down — there’s another weird ride straight ahead Well, that was a pleasantly unexpected start to the 2025 MLB season. Despite many doubters, young hurler Sean Burke ...2025
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• The next great rebuild: Chicago’s offseason moves and what they mean for 2025 and beyond

New skipper Will Venable has a daunting task ahead of him. Will this rag-tag roster be enough of an upgrade to avoid another 100+ losses? | Michael Reaves/Getty Images Are the White Sox reconstructed, reenergized, and ready to avoid another 100+ loss season? It's been an offseason of reconstruction and roster overhaul. Many familiar names and faces have faded, replaced by a cast of n...2025
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• Two wishes for the 2025 White Sox season

Wouldn’t it be nice if Luis Robert Jr. stuck in Chicago all season for all the right reasons — like an MVP-quality season? | Dylan Buell/Getty Images Unlikely? Sure. But possible? A writer can dream ... A new baseball season brings hope and promise of a fresh start for all teams, but for the Chicago White Sox, the sentiment isn’t completely there. Sox fans are excited to rip the Band-Aid o...2025
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• Predicting which White Sox prospect will debut first

Chase Meidroth has been getting some significant playing opportunities throughout this Cactus League season. | Rick Scuteri-Imagn Images An under-the-radar scrapper seems to have an open road to breaking camp to Chicago next week Prospect hype continues to dwindle, as the Chicago White Sox are one week away from Opening Day and roster cuts are well underway. Although the Sox have MLB’s si...2025
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• Game Thread: Angels at White Sox

Former Red Justin Dunn gets the ball for his first spring start. | David Kohl-Imagn Images Another day of bargain bin ball in the Arizona sun Today, Chicago (5-12) takes on the Los Angeles Angels (8-9) at Camelback Ranch in Glendale, Arizona. While the White Sox roster and staff have experienced an almost complete overhaul, as much as things change, they still stay the same. The club hasn...2025
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• What the *$&#@*, White Sox, Clevinger again? Really?

New White Sox logo? | GEORGES GOBET/AFP via Getty Images Yet another Jerry Reinsdorf middle finger to the fans For this, the third time is definitely not the charm. It is just a pile of &$%# that the White Sox are shoving down the throats of their fans, one more chance for Jerry Reinsdorf to show how much he hates Sox fans for not adoring him sufficiently. Presumably, the choice to offer M...2025
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• White Sox news and notes: Chicago inks veteran Michael A. Taylor

Is there anything more beautiful than a brand new baseball? | John E. Moore III/Getty Images Pitchers and catchers report, the injury bug has bitten, the Ballers have new threads, and things can always get worse There’s a lot to cover here in this week’s news and notes. Spring training has finally arrived, the Sox made a last-minute acquisition, there’s already an injury to report, Kannap...2025
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• Ky Bush To Undergo Tommy John Surgery
White Sox prospect Ky Bush will undergo Tommy John surgery tomorrow and miss the 2025 season, general manager Chris Getz announced to the team’s beat writers this morning (via Scott Merkin of MLB.com). He’s on Chicago’s 40-man roster, so if the Sox need to free up a spot at any point, they can place Bush…...2025
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• Special Edition Bird App Recap: Jerry getz his man ...

Chicago White Sox Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf smokes a cigar, ever pleased with his decision-making skills | Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images We are indeed living on the stupidest timeline imaginable In the least surprising and most obvious move for Jerry Reinsdorf’s clown car organization, Chris Getz was named the new senior vice president and genera...2023
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"White Sox general manager Chris Getz spoke with reporters on Thursday in advance of this weekend’s SoxFest."

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"White Sox general manager Chris Getz said Tuesday that interim manager Grady Sizemore will now be considered for the permanent job, a reversal of the GM's stance from August."

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"Chris Getz, a former player in his seventh season in the front office for the White Sox, has been promoted to senior vice president/general manager."

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"Chris Getz announced to reporters that the White Sox were creating a “Project Birmingham” initiative that will invite the top A-ball players for the final weeks of the season, as sort of bridge to fall instructionals."

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"Director of player development Chris Getz said Thursday (via Daryl Van Schouwen of the Chicago Sun-Times) that Madrigal is “pretty close” to…"

2019
"The White Sox on Tuesday announced their 2019 player development staff under Chris Getz, who is in his third year as the organization's director of player development."

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"The White Sox announced the organization's player development staff and assignments for the 2018 season under second-year director of player development Chris Getz."

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"Chris Getz will replace Nick Capra as the White Sox director of player development, a Major League source confirmed Sunday to MLB."

2015
"Sometime in early May last season, seven-year veteran and former Royals second baseman Chris Getz decided his playing days in baseball were done."

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• Grading the Opening Day roster

It’s White Sox Opening Day at Rate Field! | Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Presenting your 2025 White Sox ... please direct all grievances where they belong, the team’s front office Today is officially the first day of the new and improved White Sox — or that’s at least what general manager Chris Getz wants fans to believe. For most Sox fans, today is ...2025
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• The next great rebuild: Chicago’s offseason moves and what they mean for 2025 and beyond
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• Chicago southpaws Hagen Smith and Noah Schultz deal in 3-1 Spring Breakout loss to Colorado

Lefty Noah Schultz is a dominant presence on the mound. | Matt Thomas/San Diego Padres/Getty Images White Sox pair of future aces highlight prospect showcase by blanking the Rockies over four frames A showcase of promising young talent turned into a tightly-contested pitcher’s duel as the Chicago White Sox fell to the Colorado Rockies, 3-1, in today’s Spring Breakout game. While the score...2025
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• What if the White Sox were to line up in 2025 based on spring stats?

Deepest hole on Earth, or White Sox shortstop situation? | jagranjosh.com It would definitely make for an interesting lineup It’s well established that you should never make much of anything of teams’ spring training records, though the White Sox 5-13-1 reecord may prove a little too close to how things will go when games count. Each team has a different way of looking at exhibition games,...2025
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• 2025 South Side Sox Top Prospect No. 13: Chase Meidroth

Why do we like Chase Meidroth? Because he gets on base. | David Durochik/Diamond Images via Getty Images Picky hitter, flexible defender, certain to be a factor on the South Side this summer Chase Meidroth5´10´´170 poundsAge: 23First appearance among the South Side Sox Top 100 Prospects2024 High Level Worcester (AAA)Age relative to high level -4.4 yearsSSS rank among all shortstops in the ...2025
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• White Sox pen minor-league deal with alleged abuser

This man, Chris Getz, seems to be addicted to having a terrible teammate and alleged domestic abuser in his starting rotation. | Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Of all the pitchers they could’ve signed, the South Siders bring the worst possible choice back for a THIRD engagement This morning, which happened to be a snowy day in February, I woke up t...2025
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• The White Sox may want us to — but we are not whitewashing Mike Clevinger

Kamil Krzaczynski-Imagn Images If the club we cover won’t make the call, we will So, as we now begin a third season of having to grapple with coverage of the worst person in professional baseball, our staff offers up a general disclaimer about our 2025 White Sox coverage, which remains consistent and firm: We are not dignifying this horrible teammate and monstrous human with coverage. As m...2025
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• ChiSox expect 'growing pains,' more wins in '25
Chicago White Sox GM Chris Getz expects "some growing pains" this season, but he also believes his team will win more games than last year's campaign which resulted in a modern-day record for losses (121) in a single season,...2025
• 2025 South Side Sox Prospect Vote: Round 31

We don’t usually caption these stories, but in case you are alarmed that the No. 30-voted prospect is 12 years old, no, this is just a shot of Blake Larson in the Little League World Series, back in 2018. Blake Larson tops our Round 30 ballot. So, who is the 31st-best prospect in the White Sox system? Our long wait is over, as Blake Larson finally advanced, voted our No. 30 prospect with 4...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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• 2025 South Side Sox Prospect Vote: Round 30

@Shane.Smith00/Instagram Shane Smith tops our Round 29 ballot. So, who is the 30th-best prospect in the White Sox system? For the sixth “true” time (discounting Round 1), in back-to-back votes, and for the third time in the last five rounds a first-time candidate defeated the incumbent field to become our next top prospect, as Shane Smith won Round 29, with 37 of 200 votes (19%): ...2025
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• SoxFest Live 2025 delivers a dinger ... along with a few swings and misses

The 20th-anniversary celebration of the 2005 World Series team began on Friday, with SoxFest Live. Chuck Garfien reminisced with Harold Baines, Mark Buehrle, Freddy García, and José Contreras (Billy Russo, interpreter). | Melissa Sage-Bollenbach/South Side Sox Newly-imagined fan fest was a winner, but needs to address a few growing pains In the middle of a bitter cold Illinois winter, th...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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• Will Venable officially unveiled as new White Sox manager at brief, crisp Zoom conference

Yes, Will, that 2005 trophy is going to loom over your tenure as White Sox manager unless you can perform a miracle. | Cheryl Raye Stout/Twitter A wider unveiling to come next week, but we got a few initial answers on Thursday I just lost a long piece I wrote on the Zoom conference with new manager Will Venable and GM Chris Getz, somehow with no way of recovering on this platform. That’s a...2024
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• White Sox elevate ex-player Getz to GM role

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• White Sox Name Chris Getz General Manager
The White Sox announced Thursday that assistant general manager Chris Getz has been promoted to the position of senior vice president and general manager. Chicago fired longtime baseball operations executives Rick Hahn and Kenny Williams last week. Getz, who turned 40 yesterday, will join the likes of Rangers GM Chris Young, Mariners president of baseball…...2023
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• Chris Getz named new White Sox general manager
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• White Sox nearing deal with shortstop Paul DeJong

Photo by Brandon Sloter/Image Of Sport/Getty Images Chris Getz makes his first splash into free agency as Chicago looks to replace Tim Anderson The White Sox remain active this offseason as they reportedly are near a one-year deal with shortstop Paul DeJong. Jon Heyman broke the news late this afternoon. DeJong and White Sox have an agreement on a 1-year deal pending physical— Jon Heyman...2023
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• Sizemore now a candidate for White Sox manager
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• Eloy Jimenez Receiving Trade Interest
The White Sox have been getting some calls about slugger Eloy Jimenez, GM Chris Getz told ESPN’s Jesse Rogers (X link) and other reporters today. There isn’t a sense that a deal might be close or that the Sox are truly inclined to shop Jimenez, but “teams are interested,” Getz said. “It just has to…...2023
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• White Sox GM Chris Getz blames record-setting losing season on 'the cards we've been dealt'

The White Sox are barreling toward an MLB-record 125 losses...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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• The White Sox are YOUR problem now

The tweet that started the madness. | @chrystal_ok / Twitter. What will you do to fix this team? Let’s live in a fantasy world for a bit. First off, Chris Getz has been ousted due to being terrible. While doing a quick-to-nonexistent search, Human Resources descended upon the ballpark to fill the spot. Someone taps you on the shoulder after seeing the way you managed to carry a beer, nac...2024
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• 2025 South Side Sox season predictions!

A dozen of our writers project the summer to come It’s time to lay it on the line and stand up for our picks to win (and, sometimes, lose) for the 2025 season. We detailed some of the reasoning for the most popular picks on our Sox Populi podcast earlier this week and is also touched on with our Opening Day Preview podcast, but here’s our full-on take, with everyone’s picks in. But first, let’s re...2025
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• Two wishes for the 2025 White Sox season
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• Padres 3, White Sox 1: South Siders still searching for first spring victory

Despite feeling kinda crummy, Noah Schultz looked terrific in his much-anticipated spring debut this afternoon. | Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images Despite Chicago’s continued offensive woes, the pitching staff sets the tone with their mound mastery With their loss to the San Diego Padres this afternoon, the White Sox dropped to 0-5 on the spring. While the offense continues to be frustrati...2025
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• Padres 3, White Sox 1: South Siders still searching for first spring victory

Despite feeling kinda crummy, Noah Schultz looked terrific in his much-anticipated spring debut this afternoon. | Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images Despite Chicago’s continued offensive woes, the pitching staff sets the tone with their mound mastery With their loss to the San Diego Padres this afternoon, the White Sox dropped to 0-5 on the spring. While the offense continues to be frustrati...2025
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• Bright backstopping future: Teel (and Quero) help power White Sox 10-3 rout

For all you know, this was one of Kyle Teel’s three hits on Monday. Sure, it wasn’t, but for all you know it was. | David Durochik/Diamond Images via Getty Images Vargas and Rojas chip in, too, in 12-hit, five-walk effort There was a time last season where I happened to recap a win, and the win was a well-played game, and it was decisive enough to hit the ground and scoot out of a room rap...2025
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• SoxFest Live 2025 delivers a dinger ... along with a few swings and misses
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• Revamped SoxFest focuses on the future of the team ... while surrounded by the past

SoxFest live at the Ramova! | Kristina Airdo/South Side Sox And Mark Buehrle finally gets a statue! For the first time since 2020, the Chicago White Sox finally brought back SoxFest, and what used to be a massive event held at hotel convention centers with thousands of fans has been pared down into a much smaller space and a live-event format. It was held at the historic Ramova Theater in ...2025
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• White Sox New Year’s roster recap

Tyler Gilbert should eat up plenty of innings out of the pen for the South Siders. | Scott Taetsch/Getty Images Chris Getz’s phone has been all abuzz in 2025 Chicago started off 2025 with a bang, or maybe more like a fizzle with a few beginning-of-the-year moves. First up was a swap with the Philadelphia Phillies where the South Siders received lefty reliever Tyler Gilbert in exchange for...2025
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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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• Reinsdorf to White Sox fans — F.U.

Not the finger Jerry Reinsdorf is showing to fans. | andersons.com The strange hatred for people who made him billions It sure seems like it’s not enough for Jerry Reinsdorf to show his disdain for fans by putting a godawful product on the field. He has to lift his middle finger in a multitude of ways. Reinsdorf’s unremitting greed has long been recognized, but greed’s not an unusual tra...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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• 2024 Charlotte Knights Season Preview

Universal No. 1 White Sox prospect Colson Montgomery will start 2024 with a promotion to Triple-A Charlotte, and a clear path to the majors. | Norm Hall/MLB Photos via Getty Images A look at top-prospect shortstop Colson Montgomery and other major league hopefuls who start 2024 at the doorstep of The Show For a White Sox team that lost 101 games last season, at first glance it may seem li...2024
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• Royals trade partner history: The White Sox

Photo by Duane Burleson/Getty Images Here we are now going to the south side. This is a series that looks back at their trade history with each team in baseball. So far, we have looked back at trades with the Braves, Cubs, Diamondbacks, and Orioles. Today we look at the history of deals with the Chicago White Sox. Total number of Royals/White Sox trades: 19 Dayton Moore dealt with the Whi...2024
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