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• White Sox’ GM Chris Getz Discusses Deadline Approach
The White Sox are probably the most surprising team in playoff position through the season’s first two months. Chicago takes a 32-28 record into tonight’s game in Minnesota, placing them three games up on the competition for the second AL Wild Card spot. They’re only a game and a half back of the Guardians in […]...2026
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• ChiSox do not plan to rush top pitching prospects
White Sox GM Chris Getz says the team has no intention of rushing its top pitching prospects to the major leagues despite the rotation's struggles early this season....2026
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• White Sox catcher Kyle Teel could miss 4-6 weeks with hamstring strain
The post White Sox catcher Kyle Teel could miss 4-6 weeks with hamstring strain appeared first on Sox On 35th. The White Sox will be without one of their catchers to start the season. GM Chris Getz told reporters on Wednesday that Kyle Teel suffered a Grade 2 hamstring strain… The post White Sox catcher Kyle Teel could miss 4-6 weeks with hamstring strain appeared first on Sox On 35th....2026
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• White Sox Spring Training news and notes: Ramping up for the Cactus League opener

Spring Training in Glendale is officially in full swing, and if you haven’t already muted the “Chris Getz is building a team of 2023 roster castoffs” jokes on X, now might be the time. The biggest buzz at Camelback Ranch isn’t just the desert heat; it’s the arrival of Munetaka Murakami. While most of the […]...2026
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• Munetaka Murakami — The Good, the Bad, and the Maybe?

Leave it to the White Sox to sully the start of Spring Training for the man who may be their best acquisition in a long time. The news should all be about Munetaka Murakami (no matter how the locker room crew spelled his name), and instead it’s about Chris Getz proving his incompetence once again. […]...2026
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• What grade would you give Chris Getz for this offseason?

While shopping in the discount bins and having just one established-player chip to cash in this offseason, GM Chris Getz was busy. He further gutted his outfield by shipping off Luis Robert Jr. to New York for salary relief Luisangel Acuña, bringing switch-hitting defensive flexibility to the roster. Getz also added some pitching from the […]...2026
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• Effectively Wild Episode 2440: Season Preview Series: Orioles and Padres

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about hamate fractures and other deflating spring training injury announcements, Zack Wheeler’s preserved rib, Chris Getz and Luisangel Acuña, a profusion of salary cap coverage, and more, and then preview the 2026 Baltimore Orioles (38:50) with The Baltimore Banner’s Andy Kostka, and the 2026 San Diego Padres (1:27:28) with […]...2026
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• Royals to call up Rich Hill

Rich Hill, pitching for the Omaha Storm Chasers | Minda Haas Kuhlmann The 45-year-old would become the oldest player in club history The Royals will call up 45-year-old left-hander Rich Hill, according to Fansided reporter Robert Murray. He will likely make the Tuesday start against the Cubs, which is currently listed as “TBA” by the Royals. Hill was signed to a minor league deal by the R...2025
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• Even AI isn’t sure what the White Sox have to offer in trade

Bow your heads and hope there’s a desperate GM out there. | Nick Cammett/Diamond Images via Getty Images Tariffs aren’t the only impediment in the world today We are now well into the period for considering possible White Sox trades, so I naturally went to the ultimate expert in such matters, in fact in all matters: artificial intelligence. Turns out AI may not be all it’s cracked up to be...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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 GM Chris Getz keeps mistakenly saying ex-Met Luisangel Acuna is a switch hitter in viral clips"

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"Rich Hill is older than Alex Gordon, Jarrod Dyson, Jeff Francoeur, Greg Holland, Wade Davis, Alcides Escobar, Billy Butler, Lorenzo Cain, Mike Moustakas, Danny Duffy, Eric Hosmer, Ben Zobrist, Alex Rios, Mark Teahen, Yuniesky Betancourt, Luke Hochevar, Chris Getz, and Mitch Maier."

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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."

2022
"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."

2020
"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."

2018
"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."

2016
"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."

• What grade would you give Chris Getz for this offseason?
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• Effectively Wild Episode 2440: Season Preview Series: Orioles and Padres
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• Four reasons why the White Sox did not sign Tatsuya Imai

It turns out signing Japanese slugger Munetaka Murakami was the exception, and not a permanent change of the unwritten rule stating that the Chicago White Sox never win free-agent sweepstakes. General manager Chris Getz reportedly tried to sign another Japanese free agent, but this time he came up short. There was some brief excitement that […]...2026
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• A strange week of baseball, White Sox included

A banner flown over PNC Park Friday called for the owner to sell the team. Maybe the Pirates and White Sox could get a group rate on those. | Justin Berl/Getty Images And maybe a stranger rest of the month The week of the All-Star break began with ESPN self-ordained macho man jerk Pat McAfee doing the Ted Kluszewski look (what’s the matter, McAfee, they couldn’t get you a full wifebeater i...2025
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• Even AI isn’t sure what the White Sox have to offer in trade
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• White Sox Minor League Update: April 29, 2025

Batter up! Colson Montgomery is headed out West, hoping to find the hole in his swing. | David Durochik/Diamond Images via Getty Images Colson Montgomery is en route to Arizona for a desert swing tune-up while Knights, Dash, and Ballers all earn Ws The big league club is back at home, and that meant it was Chris Getz Media Day for all those who celebrate. There was much of the usual GM-sp...2025
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• Collecting Rule 5: White Sox acquire SS Gage Workman from Cubs

Meet your newest waiver-wire-and-Rule-5 acquisition, Gage Workman! | Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images If you fill your roster with players you can’t demote, at least you’re forced to put them on the IL faster when they’re hurt! Chris Getz seems to have found a curious crack in the baseball industry: Collecting Rule 5 players drafted by other teams and then dropped. The GM made his se...2025
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• White Sox to promote Edgar Quero from Triple-A as youth wave gains momentum

Edgar Quero is reportedly next in line for the call-up. | Caitlin O’Hara/MLB Photos via Getty Images Out with the old and in with the new - Chicago is finally opening the minor league floodgates Has Chris Getz finally figured out that modern baseball teams are built from the farm up, not from veterans down? Survey says no, but at least he’s finally starting to realize that these 30-somet...2025
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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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• SoxFest Live Day 2 brings familiar themes, renewed energy

Day 2 of SoxFest Live felt very familiar, with many of the same key talking points put out by GM Chris Getz and manager Will Venable the night before. However, the atmosphere did seem a bit different. While Friday night set the tone for a more intimate gathering, Saturday’s sold-out crowd made it feel more […]...2026
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• White Sox to promote Edgar Quero from Triple-A as youth wave gains momentum
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• 2025 Kannapolis Cannon Ballers Preview
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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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• 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
• 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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• Getz, Venable excited by White Sox's 'momentum'
White Sox GM Chris Getz and manager Will Venable believe they have a group poised to build on the progress it showed last season, when the team improved by 19 wins over the 2024 season....2026
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• A strange week of baseball, White Sox included
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• White Sox Minor League Update: May 6, 2025

We need Braden Montgomery to be wearing this uniform soon! | Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images Dominic Fletcher walks it off for Charlotte and Braden Montgomery drives it home for the Dash Charlotte Knights 5, Memphis Redbirds 3 (11 innings) (Statcast box)Despite a shaky start from Tyler Schweitzer, the Knights (16-18) rallied for an extra-innings walk-off. Schweitzer, who has struggled sin...2025
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• White Sox Minor League Update: April 29, 2025
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• White Sox to promote Edgar Quero from Triple-A as youth wave gains momentum
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• 2025 Kannapolis Cannon Ballers Preview
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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 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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• Outfielder Austin Hays eager to embrace leadership role with White Sox
The post Outfielder Austin Hays eager to embrace leadership role with White Sox appeared first on Sox On 35th. After a deal was first reported late last week, the White Sox officially announced their one-year signing of outfielder Austin Hays on Wednesday. GM Chris Getz wasn’t able to formally… The post Outfielder Austin Hays eager to embrace leadership role with White Sox appeared first on ...2026
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• A strange week of baseball, White Sox included
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• White Sox Minor League Update: April 29, 2025
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• Gamethread: Brewers at White Sox

Bryse Wilson will make his second start of the year for the White Sox | Matt Blewett-Imagn Images The South Siders take on Freddy Peralta and the Brew Crew to kick off a three-game set in Chicago Ahead of today's game, the White Sox announced that the No. 5 prospect, Braden Montgomery, was promoted to High-A ball and will be joining the Winston-Salem Dash! Braden Montgomery is headed to ...2025
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• White Sox to promote Edgar Quero from Triple-A as youth wave gains momentum
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• Lack of offensive progress a growing indictment of GM Getz’s record
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• The next great rebuild: Chicago’s offseason moves and what they mean for 2025 and beyond
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• White Sox Spring Training news and notes: Ramping up for the Cactus League opener
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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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