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• The ideal White Sox lineup for 2025

Yes, Minnie is our inspiration for the 2025 Sox. | David Banks/Getty Images Time to go with the flow of fandom In the entertainment industry, whether on stage or on a screen, you often hear of people, especially members of minority groups, saying they wish they could see more people who look like them. Bear that in mind, and also bear in mind that spectator sports are first and foremost en...2024
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• Mendick, Toussaint, Remillard all opt for free agency

Danny Mendick’s return to the White Sox organization after a year away in Queens didn’t work out too well. | Brandon Sloter/Image Of Sport/Getty Images The White Sox will play AAAA roulette for another year In the initial days of the offseason, three cusp major leaguers seeing significant time over these past two 100-loss seasons elected free agency, presumably to ply their AAAA wares else...2024
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• Can the White Sox do what the Royals just did?

ATP/RDB/ullstein bild via Getty Images Nope. That’s it. Nope Nope. That’s it? Just “Nope,” you say? Yep. You better keep going or you’re not getting paid for this OK: The recent deluge of national articles — The Athletic, ESPN and Sports Illustrated among them — bashing the White Sox and Jerry Reinsdorf in particular — “An owner who thinks he knows everything” etc. — has led to what is cla...2024
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• MLBTR releases their 2025 arb estimates

Michael Reaves/Getty Images You gonna pay $6 million for another year of Andrew Vaughn? Over at MLBTR, Matt Swartz is getting his usual love with the publication of arbitration estimates for all players. For our purposes, we don’t care about all players, so here are the nine White Sox who could come before an arbitrator: Justin Anderson (RHRP) (three years, 122 days service time) $1.1 mill...2024
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• Who Owned Baseball (WOB) – Updated for September 29, 2024

Who Owned Baseball for September 29, 2024? Earning 1 WOB Nathan Eovaldi held the Angels to 4 hits over 7 frames in the Rangers 8-0 victory. David Peterson allowed 1 hit over 7 innings, fanning 8, as the Mets blanked the Brewers, 5-0. Lenyn Sosa went 3 for 4 with a homer, driving in 3, […]...2024
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• IT’S OVER

Lenyn Sosa, who homered on Sunday, has to hope there are brighter days ahead for his White Sox. | Rick Osentoski-Imagn Images White Sox finish the season with a 9-5 win and victories in five of six. The 2025 season just can’t come quickly enough! The guess here is that today’s outcome didn’t make a big difference to Detroit’s playoff fortunes? If it did, wow, they blew it, getting blown ou...2024
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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: White Sox at Red Sox

Yes, the game has to be played no matter how Little League the White Sox are, umps. | Jaiden Tripi/Getty Images On the road to 112 losses and a 23rd sweep of the season Day 5 or so of Bryan Ramos on the team, and he’s getting some serious Oscar Colás and Lenyn Sosa treatment. Has he even pinch-hit since coming back up? The rookie was on fire down in Charlotte. Maybe the White Sox really ar...2024
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• Spoiler Alert: The White Sox possess only one existential function, and they’re even failing at that

Artist’s imagining of Miguel Vargas’ post-collision injury. The South Siders go “full White Sox” in Baltimore and make history. Again The 2024 Chicago White Sox are so bad, they’re being used by other teams as an adverb. "the white sox have just gone full white sox" pic.twitter.com/1C5dgI5rvw— Codify (@CodifyBaseball) September 3, 2024 It’s not a pipe dream anymore; with 22 games rem...2024
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• Rangers 4, White Sox 3: the bleeding continues

Lenyn Sosa had a night he’d like to forget. | Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports It was a walk-off win ... almost You can’t make this stuff up; you just can’t. The Sox played some decent ball today and still lost games 102 and 103 as the World Series Champion Texas Rangers swept Wednesday’s twin bill. The White Sox got right to business in the bottom of the first off of rookie Jack Leit...2024
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• White Sox break historic 21-game losing streak thanks to the A’s — and fans are not pleased

The Cheese Epoch: a team so bad, it’s good again. South Siders demand validation for a season of suffering Rarely are sports celebrated as something that can be so bad, they’re good, unless you’re talking about a group of four-year olds playing soccer. In the land of professional athletes, where salaries are astronomical, travel is free, and prestige and glory are part of the job, it’s ve...2024
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• Senzel in, Maldonado and Mendick out, Sosa jerked around some more

Failed blue-chip prospect? Of course Nick Senzel is safe on the South Side! | Scott Taetsch/Getty Images Flurry of moves probably punctuated by something really ugly as the second half opens The White Sox had some news on Wednesday, broadly unsurprising. And definitely uninspiring: pic.twitter.com/ioNnLSt84D— Chicago White Sox (@whitesox) July 17, 2024 The White Sox DFAd Danny Mendic...2024
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• Brewers get third straight comeback win, sweep White Sox

Benny Sieu-USA TODAY Sports Chourio homer highlights balanced offensive attack Box Score The Milwaukee Brewers overcame a rough first inning from Freddy Peralta to pick up a 6-3 victory this afternoon, completing a sweep of the struggling Chicago White Sox, who have now lost 11 straight games. It was the fifth straight win for the Brewers, who capitalized on the White Sox’ uninspired play ...2024
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• White Sox Minor League Update: April 30, 2024

Watch out, boy, Drew Thorpe will chew you up! | S.R. Silver/South Side Sox Drew Thorpe can be beat, but he can’t not be brilliant With April now in the books, let’s take a look again at where each team stands: Chicago White Sox (6-24), fifth place (of five), 13.5 GB, MLB AL CentralCharlotte Knights (13-14), sixth place (of 10), 5.0 GB, Triple-A IL EastBirmingham Barons (15-7), first place...2024
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• Sox Pop on the Farm Podcast 51 — The Charlotte Knights “hot” start

Jonathan Lee joins Brett Ballantini to discuss the first few weeks of Triple-A baseball, the Chicago-Charlotte shuttle, and Justin Jirschele’s South Side prospects It’s an early check-in with our friend and Charlotte mainstay Jonathan Lee on all things Knights, including intriguing bats and the predictable breakdown of the Triple-A rotation: Jonathan’s take on the 8-12 Charlotte start: .400 ball,...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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• Bird App Recap: Nationals 13, White Sox 3

The race to 100 losses is ON! | @Crewsett A baseball beating in the nation’s capital The White Sox wrapped up their three-game set in Washington, DC, this afternoon against the Nationals. Here’s how the bad managers sent them out there for the rubber match. Yikes, that last third of the lineup. Today's #WhiteSox starters in Washington D.C.: pic.twitter.com/g18WRFswpy— Chicago White S...2023
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• Orioles 9, White Sox 0: Nothing to see here

White Sox baseball is bad. Joan Jett is not. | Jess Rapfogel/Getty Images I love rock ’n roll but despise South Side baseball The most exciting thing about this game is that Joan Jett was in the house! The “I Love Rock ’n Roll” superstar is a big-time Baltimore Orioles fan. If she isn’t seriously the most adorable baseball fan. Don’t mind me why I fangirl. Joan Jett is a real one, ...2023
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"The Cubs went down 1-2-3 in the ninth, in part because of this leaping catch by Lenyn Sosa off Nico Hoerner [VIDEO]."

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"Infielder Lenyn Sosa is up from Triple-A Charlotte to take Anderson’s spot on the active roster."

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"Infielder Lenyn Sosa will have his contract selected from Double-A as he joins the active roster."

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• Mendick, Toussaint, Remillard all opt for free agency
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• Can the White Sox do what the Royals just did?
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• MLBTR releases their 2025 arb estimates
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• White Sox situation is even worse than it seems

Who knew Edvard Munch was a White Sox fan? | weloveart.com And has been for years Sure, the entire baseball world knows that the White Sox are the worst team in modern major league history (forget the percentages, total losses are what people remember), but dig into the numbers a bit and 121 losses are just the little bitty tippy-tip of the iceberg. Actually, we don’t have to dig into the...2024
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• Angels help the White Sox to a sweep, 7-0
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• White Sox lose No. 104, 2-1 to Texas

Was this really Nick Nastrini? | Quinn Harris/Getty Images A surprise fine pitching performance goes for naught First, the good news — Nick Nastrini was a shadow of his former self. Shadow being a good thing in this case. The righty who’d been hyped so much when he came from the Dodgers at the 2023 trade deadline had been an overall disaster during two other brief sojourns with the Sox ear...2024
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• Gamethread: White Sox at Giants

Blame it on the Moon: for not being able to score runs with no outs and the bases loaded, sure beats the real reason of being bad at baseball. | Eakin Howard/Getty Images Late night! Game time! It’s the second game in San Francisco, and another late one. Perhaps not worth staying up for all nine innings, but if you stick around with us, thank you. It’s Davis Martin Night! OK that was some ...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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• White Sox again snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, fall to Oakland 3-2

Davis Martin deserved a better outcome. | Lachlan Cunningham/Getty Images Two bad teams, two awful owners, but someone had to win As Yogi the bard would put it, it was deja vu all over again: Excellent starting pitching performance. Check. Feeble offense after the second inning. Check. Bullpen failure. Check. A soupcon of ill fate. Check. The excellent pitching came from Davis Martin, ma...2024
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• Braves NL Wild Card Report: September 22

Photo by Mary DeCicco/MLB Photos via Getty Images An Acuña is currently helping an NL East team get into the Postseason. It’s not Ronald and it’s not the Braves, though. For what feels like the umpteenth time in this NL Wild Card race for the Atlanta Braves, it was one step forward but two steps back. Atlanta got the job done against the Marlins but unfortunately, everybody else in the rac...2024
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• Braves NL Wild Card Report: September 21

Photo by Denis Poroy/Getty Images Folks, it’s getting real bleak! After dropping yet another game here in 2024 where the other team scored at least four runs, the Atlanta Braves were once again in the awful position of relying on other teams for help. One of these teams was the Chicago White Sox and another was the Philadelphia Phillies. Folks, this is a dire situation that we’re in as Bra...2024
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• Make it 114! Guardians finish sweep of White Sox, 6-4

Cleveland tries to give game away, but fails It only took 340 pitches to get through this game, 170 for each side, so that was a pretty good accomplishment. Otherwise, no matter how hard Cleveland tried, they couldn’t help the White Sox break their 14-game home losing streak. To be fair, it’s not like the Sox didn’t do their share of trying to give the game away, though they of course succeeded. ...2024
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• The Yankees get revenge, but the White Sox refuse to lie down

Juan Soto drove in every single run for the Yankees. The rest of them should just quit. | Quinn Harris/Getty Images The New York Juan Sotos singlehandedly give it back to the South Siders White Sox fans, it’s time for a State of the Union. The fans have spoken after the first four games of the Grady Sizemore era. Listening to Steve Stone on 670 this morning and I now have zero doubts tha...2024
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• Cubs 3, White Sox 1: Takin’ care of business

Photo by Melissa Tamez/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Cubs went to the South Side of Chicago and did what they needed to do. The Cubs defeated the White Sox 3-1 Saturday night. It wasn’t pretty much of the time, but the team did what they came for in this series — a sweep, and thus a sweep of the season series against their crosstown rivals for the first time since 2013. The Sox scor...2024
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• The White Sox can’t even win at losing, and fans are incensed

We know who’s to blame. The South Siders defeat the Angels, narrowly avoiding a record-breaking loss, and SELL THE TEAM becomes a movement Tonight was supposed to be the night, White Sox fans. This evening, all of your suffering, your woes, and your torment over the 2024 season was supposed to crystallize into a historic, record-breaking accomplishment. The 2024 White Sox just narrowly avo...2024
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• Comeback kids: White Sox 6, Giants 2

Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images Korey Lee keys ninth-inning comeback, with Lenyn Sosa piling two more runs on The doom and gloom gets swept away for a couple of days, as the White Sox kept Grady Sizemore sleepless as Chicago manager by rallying for a 6-2 win with four ninth-inning runs on Wednesday. Korey Lee was the killer, falling behind 0-2 with the sacks packed and two outs before ta...2024
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• The Yankees get revenge, but the White Sox refuse to lie down
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• Six Pack of Stats: Twins 3, White Sox 2 (doubleheader nightcap)

Michael Reaves/Getty Images a series win against a competitive team who is not the Guardians? c’mon now, what were you thinking? While his lack of overpowering strikeout stuff might be worrying, old-school ace Drew Thorpe threw another terrific game on Wednesday night, piling up six innings of two-run ball. Still, the bullpen mastery of just one game ago could not hold all day (to be fair...2024
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• Six Pack of Stats: Marlins 7, White Sox 4

Jake Burger took a 99 mph pitch at his chest and turned on it for Sunday’s game-winner. | Rich Storry/Getty Images at a certain point everything that could go wrong does go wrong A monumental collapse against a putrid Marlins team — the White Sox were up, 4-1, with six outs left to get — dropped the South Siders to 40 worse than .500 for the second time this season. Despite getting Miami ...2024
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• White Sox Minor League Player of the Week (June 17-23): Mark Payton

On a hot streak: Mark Payton played a huge role in Charlotte’s 5-1 week. | Michael Reaves/Getty Images The Knights had the best week in terms of record, but the Barons clinched a postseason spot for the first time in 11 years Charlotte Knights Record 5-1 (last week), 33-41 (overall) Knights Player of the Week Mark Payton .478/.520/1.000, 23 at-bats Colson Montgomery .313/.429/.688, 16 at-...2024
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• White Sox 5, Tigers 1: That’s more like it

Mowing them down: Drew Thorpe pitched six shutout earnings to guide the White Sox to a victory. | Duane Burleson/Getty Images Drew Thorpe pitched six shutout innings to earn his first career win The White Sox (21-57) played one of their best games of the season to even up the series against the Tigers (35-41). There was not much traffic on the base paths in the early portion of this game....2024
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• Astros 5, White Sox 3: The Bullpen Strikes Again

White Sox enemies ... the both of them. | Quinn Harris/Getty Images Stop me if you’ve heard this story before ... There are few things more enjoyable than watching the Astros lose to your team, and for an inning or two it felt like we might be able to enjoy one of this season’s few pleasures by taking two of three from Houston. Unfortunately, that was not the case this afternoon as the Pa...2024
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• Introducing the brand-new 2025 White Sox!

Brand-new white socks for brand-new White Sox. | foxsox.com If only This is a fantasy. It would be a fantasy in most cases, but it is assuredly so until you-know-who goes off to the Great Tax Shelter in the Sky. That’s because it’s a good and innovative idea, and good and/or innovative ideas are foreign to the Chicago White Sox. Naytheless, on we go. LET US BEGIN THE REBIRTH This plan c...2024
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• Cubs 7, White Sox 6: (°0°)
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• White Sox Place Tim Anderson On Injured List
The White Sox announced Tuesday that shortstop Tim Anderson has been placed on the 10-day injured list due to a sprain in his left knee. He’s expected to miss between two and four weeks of action, per the team. Infielder Lenyn Sosa is up from Triple-A Charlotte to take Anderson’s spot on the active roster.…...2023
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• White Sox 10, Rockies 5: Seven run surge leads to win

Lenyn Sosa rounding the bases after his three-run home run in the eighth inning to extend the lead to 10-5 | Isaiah J. Downing-USA TODAY Sports The South Siders come from behind and score seven runs in the eighth inning, more than in the first two games of the series combined The Chicago White Sox won the finale of the three-game set against the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field. In the bat...2023
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• Athletics 12, White Sox 4: Sox are Ice Cold

Lenyn Sosa was one of the few highlights. Also, given the concert cancellation, perhaps it’s time to finally put Elvis’ gangster chic in the dumpster. | Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports Sosa and Jiménez bombs were the only solace for the South Siders That was too much suffering, even for an opening act. With three errors in the game, two courtesy of Andrew Benintendi on almost-consecuti...2023
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• Bird App Recap: Athletics 12, White Sox 4

@EllaJay912 Man, whatever It's a 90s vibe over here!Your #WhiteSox starters on 90s Night at Guaranteed Rate Field: pic.twitter.com/6z1qhsYFFD— Chicago White Sox (@whitesox) August 25, 2023 Tickets are dirt cheap. No idea why, the White Sox and Athletics are a must-see TV! The best seats $7 can buy pic.twitter.com/69EbKMslY8— Brandon Stokes WST Cesspool Town Drunk (@bstokes79) Augus...2023
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• They came, they saw ... they lost: Padres 6, White Sox 1

At least Lenyn Sosa homered and had himself a game tonight. | Melissa Tamez/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images For the fifth time in franchise history, the South Siders have lost 100 games One, two, skip a few 99 ... 100! In the span of just six years, the White Sox have lost triple-digit games twice. All while also making the playoffs in-between. Twice! In what I can describe as nothing s...2023
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• Could the Cubs trade Nick Madrigal?
Photo by Matt Dirksen/Getty Images A couple of teams with “Sox” in their names could use a second baseman. As you know, Nick Madrigal had an injury-filled 2022 season with the Cubs that resulted in him playing just 59 games and batting .249/.305/.282 (52-for-209) with seven extra-base hits, all doubles. This, obviously, wasn’t what anyone would have wanted from Madrigal, who was the first-...2023
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• White Sox Minor League Update: July 21, 2023
In a true perfect day at the plate, every ball Lenyn Sosa put in play on Friday was hard-hit. | Laura Wolff/Charlotte Knights Lenyn Sosa continues to dominate pitching at the Triple-A level It was a rocky day for the White Sox minor league affiliates, but there are plenty of bright spots to highlight in today’s edition of the White Sox Minor League Update. We start off in Triple-A Charlot...2023
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• Mendick, Toussaint, Remillard all opt for free agency
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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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• White Sox Minor League Update: April 25, 2024

The red-hot Brooks Baldwin rounds third to score in Chattanooga versus the Lookouts. | S. R. Silver/South Side Sox Brooks Baldwin cannot be stopped, Lenyn Sosa continues to mash, and other storylines from the farm Lehigh Valley IronPigs 7, Charlotte Knights 6 (Gameday score) (Statcast box)Lenyn Sosa was demoted three days ago. He seems to have taken that personally. LENYN. SOSA. HOME. ...2024
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• 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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• White Sox Minor League Update: Charlotte drops Triple-A opener, 6-5

Charlotte standout Zach Remillard led off of the Knights in the season opener and singled in his first at-bat. | Laura Wolff/Charlotte Knights The Knights were in control — until a brutal sixth inning Memphis Chicks 6, Charlotte Knights 5 (Gameday box) (Statcast box)Charlotte got off to a great start in Memphis, on the road in the season opener. While maintaining a lead for the entire fir...2024
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