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• Quality start, empty result: Cannon deals, but the offense doesn’t, as Sox fall 2-1 to Royals

Miguel Vargas has looked like a different player since tweaking his swing a few weeks ago. | Jay Biggerstaff/Getty Images Chicago’s late push just isn’t enough Despite a strong pitching performance from Jonathan Cannon, the White Sox's offense sputtered for most of the night before a late rally agonizingly fell short. Cannon found himself in immediate trouble in the first inning. Two sing...2025
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• Wacha’s wiliness, Witt’s warhead whomp white wearables 2-1

Photo by Jay Biggerstaff/Getty Images 14-2 since 4/20. The Kansas City Royals once again had an outstanding night on the mound and got all the offense they needed from one swing as they defeated the Chicago White Sox 2-1 tonight at Kauffman Stadium. The first three innings took just 38 minutes to complete. Both teams had an opportunity to do damage, with Kansas City putting runners on the ...2025
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• White Sox embarrass themselves again in 4-3 walk-off loss to the Royals

Chase Meidroth was literally hit in the head on a normal pop-up to second base, allowing the winning run to get on base and ultimately score. | Jay Biggerstaff/Getty Images Never forget the head-bonking incident of 2025 In a game where the White Sox (10-26) actually looked competent for most of it, they found yet another new way to blow it and embarrass themselves, losing 4-3 in a walk-of...2025
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• Royals walk off win as White Sox blow the game in hilarious fashion

Denny Medley-Imagn Images Oh my, the White Sox are dreadful. Bobby Witt Jr. hit a walk-off single to cap off a hilarious comeback fueled by a comedy of errors by the White Sox in a 4-3 Royals win. Seth Lugo dominated the White Sox in three starts last year, and while he wasn’t quite as sharp tonight he had an effective quality start. The White Sox got on the board in the fourth inning of...2025
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• White Sox 5, Astros 4 (7 innings): Thanks, Weather Gods!

Edgar Quero drives in what would turn out to be the winning run in the bottom of the sixth inning. | Kamil Krzaczynski-Imagn Images South Siders steal a series and a win thanks to a rainy afternoon After two-and-a-half hours and an hour-and-20-minute rain delay, the Chicago White Sox got the shortened-game victory, for the second time this season. They steal the 5-4 win over the Houston As...2025
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• Game Thread: Astros at White Sox

Bryse Wilson will start yet another bullpen game this afternoon. | Kamil Krzaczynski-Imagn Images South Siders try to steal a series win against Space City Happy Sunday Sox fans, and May the 4th be with you! Today the Chicago White Sox take on the Houston Astros in the finale of this three-game set, as the South Siders look to take the just their second series of the season with a win. Aft...2025
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• White Sox 5, Astros 4 (7 innings): Thanks, Weather Gods!
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• Roster shuffling: Josh Rojas, Caleb Freeman, Tyler Gilbert join the White Sox

It’s been a long, long road to the majors for Caleb Freeman, but he’s finally made The Show. | Chris Bernacchi/Diamond Images via Getty Images Ellard injured, Murfee demoted, Dalbec released As befits a team on pace to lose 118 games, the White Sox made another round of reshuffling on Sunday, adding and subtracting three players from the 26-player roster. “Ballyhooed” (by price tag, at le...2025
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• Series Preview: Milwaukee Brewers @ Chicago White Sox

Benny Sieu-Imagn Images Brewers look to finish road trip strong against lowly White Sox The Milwaukee Brewers, wrapping up a 10-game road trip that took them west and has now brought them back closer to home, are headed to Chicago to battle the White Sox for three games beginning Tuesday night. Milwaukee is 2-5 through seven games this trip, dropping three of four to the Giants before losi...2025
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• Game Thread: Angels at White Sox

Leading us to some fun, or utter misery, the Pied Piper of Baseball leads us into the park today. Like it or not, here we go! Welcome to another season of White Sox baseball, friends. I’m Brett Ballantini, and I’ll be your host today for Opening Day coverage. It’s my eighth season of White Sox openers here at South Side Sox, which believe it or not makes me the most-tenured editor in the 2...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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• Game Thread: D-Backs at White Sox

Relief pitcher Brandon Eisert will start this afternoon for the South Siders. | Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images Last Spring Training Sunday! Happy Sunday! Just two games left until the team heads home for Opening Day! The Arizona Diamondbacks will face off against the Chicago White Sox at Camelback Ranch this afternoon in Glendale. The D-Backs will have a split squad against our full squad,...2025
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• White Sox cut Brandon Drury, claim Rays rotation prospect Mike Vasil

Brandon Drury | Photo by Emilee Chinn/Getty Images Terrible luck costs the veteran a chance at redemption on the South Side, while the club takes a flier on a Tampa castoff The latest White Sox roster moves bolster already strong (although it’s the weak end of the strong spectrum) roster areas and soften the weaker. The main moves saw the Sox, in separate transactions, claim righty pitche...2025
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• Projecting the White Sox Opening Day lineup

Jon Durr-Imagn Images Does Will Venable have to run out nine hitters all 162 games this year? Yes. Will it be a pretty sight? No Opening Day for the Chicago White Sox is inching closer, and roster decisions are finalizing with every minute that passes. With most prospects sent back to the minors and veterans continuing to fill up the IL, an early lineup is starting to emerge. Every Spring ...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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"That brought up Josh Rojas with the game on the line."

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"A more likely target is Josh Rojas, who was non-tendered by the Seattle Mariners."

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"Josh Rojas grounded out to 2nd, moving Perdomo to 3rd representing the tying run."

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"Arizona had designated him for assignment on Friday to make room for the return of Josh Rojas from injury."

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"The Diamondbacks have placed infielder Josh Rojas on the 10-day injured list with a left finger dislocation, retroactive to July 22nd, the team announced."

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"They also recalled infielder/outfielder Josh Rojas, placed righty Taylor Widener on the 10-day injured list with a strained right rib cage and transferred a pair of hurlers – righty Merrill Kelly and Jeremy Beasley –…"

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• Roster shuffling: Josh Rojas, Caleb Freeman, Tyler Gilbert join the White Sox
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• White Sox Designate Bobby Dalbec For Assignment
The White Sox announced a series of roster moves this morning. The club reinstated infielder Josh Rojas from the injured list, selected the contract of right-hander Caleb Freeman, and and recalled southpaw Tyler Gilbert to the big league roster. In corresponding moves, infielder Bobby Dalbec was designated for assignment while southpaw Fraser Ellard was placed…...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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• Predictions 2025: Braves will take the cake

Back on top: The Braves will win their second World Series in the past five years. | Brian Spurlock/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images South Siders will finish 51-111, according to one writer’s predictions We find ourselves here once again, approaching a season where not many good things are expected to happen. Somehow, the White Sox have topped themselves, as although the outlook heading in...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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• White Sox cut Brandon Drury, claim Rays rotation prospect Mike Vasil
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• The White Sox WAH factor

The WAH when you first learn you’ve been born into a White Sox family. | tenor.com Some baseball teams rate a WOW factor. The South Siders would be better served by another measure: Wins Above Horrible Some baseball teams rate a WOW factor. The White Sox instead rate a WAH factor. WAH, a statistic reserved for teams with at least 121 losses, goes along with Baseball-Reference’s or FanGraph...2025
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• Quality start, empty result: Cannon deals, but the offense doesn’t, as Sox fall 2-1 to Royals
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• White Sox 5, Astros 4 (7 innings): Thanks, Weather Gods!
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• White Sox Minor League Update: April 30, 2025

Sending the fans home happy: Corey Julks hit a walk-off single to wrap up an exciting game in Charlotte. | Photo by Emilee Chinn/Getty Images The Knights won a thriller, and the affiliates went 4-0 in a great day for the farm system Charlotte Knights 9, Norfolk Tides 8 (Statcast box)The Knights (14-15) fell behind early, but they did not go away during this thrilling victory over the Tides...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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• Tie-rrific! Sox and Angels play to a 1-1 draw

Andrew Vaughn drove in the only run of the contest. | David Durochiki/Diamond Images via Getty Images Chicago pitchers dominate while offense falls short yet again Pitching was the story of today’s Spring Training tale, and it will likely be the narrative all season long. The White Sox hurlers held the Angels hitless through four and impressively demonstrated the depth of the system’s arms...2025
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• 2025 Cubs: Know your enemy, AL West

Kyle looks weird in that red uniform | Photo by Caitlin O’Hara/MLB Photos via Getty Images There are a lot of things still up in the air for this division. The Cubs went 9-6 against AL West teams last year, including an unlikely sweep of the Astros at Wrigley Field. Houston went on to win the division, but this year... might be different. Houston Astros Key departures: Kyle Tucker, Alex Br...2025
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• Thirteen — 13! — batters had hits as White Sox sank the Mariners, 18-9

White Sox offense was old enough to vote! | gamesonline.com Though they fell one short of the their total number of runs in February Goodness gracious. The Sox had 17 hits, walked seven times, had one batter hit by a pitch, went 9-for-19 with runners in scoring position, and belted four homers. Sure, a gale blowing out helped, but it blew out for both teams, and the Mariners only had two r...2025
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• SB Nation Reacts: Where will the Royals finish in the division?

Photo by Mark Goldman/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Have they done enough to win the division? Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the MLB. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Kansas City Royals fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys. Spring training has begun and in just six weeks the Royals w...2025
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• Quality start, empty result: Cannon deals, but the offense doesn’t, as Sox fall 2-1 to Royals
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• BCB After Dark: What are you doing New Year’s Eve?

Photo by Agit Erdi Ulukaya/Anadolu via Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks you to pick out a present for 2025. It’s a celebration here at BCB After Dark: the happiest hangout for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. Also revelers. Please come join the party. We’re ignoring the fire codes and letting everyone in tonight. Let us take your...2025
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• If the Royals are done with big moves this offseason, it’ll be a letdown

Bobby Witt Jr. #7 of the Kansas City Royals looks on from the dugout prior to the game against the New York Yankees during Game Four of the Division Series at Kauffman Stadium on October 10, 2024 in Kansas City, Missouri. | Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images This team is in win now mode Mere weeks after the Kansas City Royals beat the Baltimore Orioles in the Wild Card Series and pushed th...2024
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• BCB After Dark: Opening Day for Matt Shaw?

Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks if Matt Shaw should be the Cubs’ Opening Day third baseman. It’s another week here at BCB After Dark: the coolest club for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. Come on in out of the cold. There’s no cover charge. We can check your coat for you. There are still a few available tables...2024
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• BCB After Dark: Who says no to this deal?

Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot asks you which team says no to a proposed three-way trade between the Cubs, Mariners and Phillies. Welcome back to BCB After Dark: the coolest club for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. We’re so glad to see you. Come on in out of the cold. There’s no cover charge this evening. There are ...2024
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• Doggone: Mariners 8, White Sox 4

The White Sox offered more bark than bite in the series opener in Seattle. | Steph Chambers/Getty Images Pale Hose get walked off, in grand fashion It was a dog-day evening at T-Mobile Park, as the first-place Seattle Mariners scuffled against Erick Fedde and the White Sox for seven of nine innings, before rallying in the eighth and walking the game off in the bottom of the ninth. Fedde w...2024
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• Braves go with their usual lineup as Travis d'Arnaud returns

Photo by Tim Warner/Getty Images Chadwick Tromp got the start on Sunday and now Travis d'Arnaud is back in the lineup. Business as usual. The Atlanta Braves and Seattle Mariners are set to get their latest series of baseball underway and we've officially got the lineups submitted by both teams. As this is indeed a Braves blog, let's start things off by talking about how the Braves are goi...2024
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• Fried looks to stay in Maximum mode as Braves take on Mariners

Photo by Brennan Asplen/Getty Images The West Coast swing begins and Max Fried will be looking to get things started on the right track for the Braves. The Atlanta Braves are set to get started on a quick trip out West and they’ll be sending their star pitcher out to kick things off as Atlanta takes on the Seattle Mariners. You don’t need me to tell you how well Max Fried did in his last...2024
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• Singer returns to form and the bullpen holds on for dear life in Royals 5-4 win over Diamondbacks
Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports It wasn’t the most satisfying win, but a win nonetheless There’s not much to say about how the Royals offense has performed thus far in 2023. Kansas City entered tonight with a league-worst 54 wRC+ with runners in scoring position and the Tigers are the only American League team to score fewer runs. So, you have to take the little victories. The Royals pil...2023
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• Diamondbacks Acquire Jace Peterson
The Diamondbacks acquired infielder Jace Peterson and cash from the A’s for minor league pitcher Chad Patrick, the clubs announced. Arizona had an opening on the 40-man roster after dealing Josh Rojas and Dominic Canzone in this afternoon’s Paul Sewald trade. Peterson is largely a Rojas replacement. He’s a left-handed hitting infielder who splits most of his time between third...2023
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• White Sox To Sign Josh Rojas
The White Sox are in agreement with infielder Josh Rojas on a one-year deal, according to a report from Scott Merkin of MLB.com. The financial terms of the deal are not yet known. Rojas, 31 in June, was non-tendered by the Mariners back in November. It was an outcome few would have expected early in…...2025
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• Padres Claim Sergio Alcántara
The Padres have claimed infielder Sergio Alcántara off waivers from the Diamondbacks, both teams announced this afternoon. Though he’s still only 25, the Friars will be Alcántara’s fourth big-league team. Arizona had designated him for assignment on Friday to make room for the return of Josh Rojas from injury. Though Alcántara doesn’t pack a ton of punch at the…...2022
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• Braves bounce back with relentless offensive performance
Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images Braves on base early and often in 5-2 win The Braves sent their ace, Spencer Strider to the mound in an attempt to bounce back from a 3-2 loss where their defense let them down. The Diamondbacks responded by sending out rookie Ryne Nelson, who had his work cut out for him against an elite offense that was angry following some uncharacteristically mediocre pe...2023
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• Diamondbacks Option Josh Rojas, Recall Alek Thomas
The Diamondbacks announced that they have recalled outfielder Alek Thomas from Triple-A Reno, with infielder Josh Rojas optioned to Reno in a corresponding move. More to come....2023
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• Carter Jensen, Jac Caglianone homer in 4-3 Royals win

Photo by Chris Bernacchi/Diamond Images via Getty Images The prospects shine in Arizona. Royals top hitting prospects Carter Jensen and Jac Caglianone each hit their first home run of spring training as the Royals battled back to beat the White Sox 4-3 to remain undefeated. Kris Bubic made his first start of the spring training as he competes for a rotation spot. After a quick 1-2-3 inning...2025
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• Pre Season Prep-February 23, 2023
Around the League Tim Anderson-White Sox-SS Tim Anderson went to Driveline this offseason to get his swing right. He never felt comfortable after his extended stay on the injured list due to a groin injury. The numbers paint a similar story. He hit .242 with 1 HR and 3 SB after hitting the IL in late May. Prior to the injury, he hit .333 with 5 HR and 10 SB. Anderson hasn't exceeded 123 GP in ...2023
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• White Sox 5, Astros 4 (7 innings): Thanks, Weather Gods!
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• Series Preview: Milwaukee Brewers @ Chicago White Sox
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• Lack of offensive progress a growing indictment of GM Getz’s record
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• A poem to the 2025 Chicago White Sox on Opening Day Eve

Quinn Harris/Getty Images Ready or not, Opening Day here we come ‘Twas the night before Opening Day, spring is officially here!Gone are those dark Chicago winter days, at least for another half the year.The fans are ready with their peanuts and Cracker Jack,So Sox don’t let us down, we don’t need to repeat last year’s wack. 121 losses, no one thought it could be done!But it somehow happene...2025
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• White Sox cut Brandon Drury, claim Rays rotation prospect Mike Vasil
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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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• 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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• After a quiet Winter Meetings, what will the Royals do next?

Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports A reaction to the latest rumors on the Royals. The Winter Meetings came and went without the Royals making a single transaction, despite what looks like a market that is moving a bit quicker than the glacial movement of the last few off-seasons. But remember (a) the Royals didn’t make any major moves at the Winter Meetings last year and added Will Smith, Ch...2024
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• Here comes the Man(zardo) - May 6th, 2024
Kyle Manzardo (1B/DH - CLE) - Manzardo is expected to get the call to Cleveland on Monday with Stevan Kwan likely headed to the IL with a strained hamstring, and he'll jump right into a 7-game week, facing 6 RHP. He should be expected to split time with Josh Naylor at 1B/DH while Kwan is out, which makes him an immediate priority add in all formats. The 23 year old has bounced back well from a rel...2024
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• 2024 MLB Season Preview: Seattle Mariners

Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images Will the Mariners find their way back into the Postseason in 2024 after missing out in agonizing fashion last season? It's time to talk about the Seattle Mariners, who figure to once again be an intriguing team that very much has a chance to forge its own destiny in the immediate future. Our Atlanta Braves won't have to wait too long to face off against...2024
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• South Side Sox Summary: Week 22

Yea, sure, Jerry Reinsdorf cares about fans | Dennis Wierzbicki-USA TODAY Sports People finally got fired, but hope is already lost Welcome to the SSS Summary — a little review of what happened this past week in Chicago White Sox baseball, including on-the-field play, the front office jibber-jabber, and everything in between. Even if you don’t want to remember what happened, sorry, we wil...2023
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• Know Your Enemy: Seattle Mariners
A bipedal moose, the symbol of a city! | Steph Chambers/Getty Images Wasting your favorite players for decades On this Bloomsday, it’s time to marinate in Mariners hate, as the Sox slump into Seattle licking their wounds like Bloom on the beach. There is nothing Joycean about this season, no epic of the single day, even though each game seems to spread out into a stream-of-consciousness f...2023
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• Diamondbacks rattle Sox in 7-2 loss
Chin up, Cowboy: Johnny Cueto ends his streak of 10-straight quality starts. | Chase Agnello-Dean/Getty Images Arizona can do what Chicago can’t: extra-base hits, walks, and superb defense The Arizona Diamondbacks wasted absolutely no time on offense and controlled the whole game from the jump, en route to Friday’s 7-1 victory over the Chicago White Sox. Johnny Cueto notched a seamless 1-2...2022
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