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• Today in White Sox History: November 21

On this day 131 years ago, Ban Johnson took control of what would become the American League. Ban Johnson kick-starts the future American League 1893Ban Johnson is given control of the reorganized Western League, being named its president, secretary and treasurer. While a minor league in this moment, the WL would transform into the American League by 1900 and ascend to major league status ...2024
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• 2024-25 MLB Free Agents
The following players are currently eligible for free agency. Each player’s 2025 age is in parentheses. Generally, our cutoff for this list is 50 plate appearances or 20 innings pitched in the Majors in 2024. Updated 11-6-24 Catchers Tucker Barnhart (34) Curt Casali (36) Travis d’Arnaud (36) Elias Diaz (34) Yan Gomes (37) Yasmani Grandal…...2024
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• Yoán Moncada’s $25 million option declined

Sadly, the lasting image of Yoán Moncada as a White Sox player will be him suffering some form of injury, which became his storyline the past three seasons. | Nick Cammett/Diamond Images via Getty Images The White Sox move on, as expected, issuing a $5 million buyout A day of (muted) celebration for the White Sox also brought yet another reminder of what could have been. Per international ...2024
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• The state of the Brewers’ catching corps entering 2025

Mark Hoffman/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images William Contreras remains the starter, but who will share the catching duties? Entering 2025, the Milwaukee Brewers’ catching corps may be one of the smallest areas of concern, especially with William Contreras as the everyday guy. Even so, the question of who will get the bulk of the backup duties is up for debat...2024
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• Baseball history unpacked, October 18

Happy birthday, Allen Ripley! A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Happy birthday, Allen Ripley, and other stories. Believe it or not! On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plenty of the lore and various narratives to foll...2024
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• Assessing Rays 2025 Catcher Targets

Catcher Danny Jansen, Boston Red Sox | Photo By Winslow Townson/Getty Images How will the Rays address this hole? The 2024 MLB season has reached its conclusion and the Rays have flipped their mindset into offseason mode. One of the top items on their wish list, it seems, is too improve upon the poor output they received from the catching position. Rays catchers posted a .562 OPS this seas...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: September 29

Alexei Ramírez and his record-breaking, game-winning home run on this day 16 years ago has become one of the most iconic images in White Sox history. Homer Hands! 1908 White Sox starting pitcher Ed Walsh fired two complete games in a doubleheader against the Red Sox. He won both, 5-1 and 2-0, allowing only seven total hits and one walk. That season, Walsh would have arguably the greatest ...2024
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• On the eve of 121 losses

An evergreen sentiment among White Sox fans. | Jamie Sabau/Getty Images The White Sox are on track to surpass the 1962 Mets as early as tomorrow If you had told me in 2019 that just years later the White Sox would implode and make history by being the worst team in Major League Baseball, I would’ve rolled my eyes and gone back to browsing for a new José Abreu jersey. Yet here we are, on th...2024
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• Why the Pirates made the right decision moving Oneil Cruz to center field at a curious time

Photo by Justin K. Aller/Getty Images The Pirates finally pulled the plug on playing Oneil Cruz at shortstop shifting the uber-talented player to the outfield. Introducing your newest Pittsburgh Pirates center fielder, 6-foot-7 Oneil Cruz. I think we’ve met before, albeit you were a shortstop as of 72 hours ago. The Pirates made one of the most abrupt moves of the 2024 season on Monday wh...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: July 6

His arm hanging limply, Jake Peavy immediately left the mound mid-start on this day, 14 years ago. After risky surgery and an unprecedented rehab, Peavy was back pitching for the White Sox 10 months later. | Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Some bad, bad injuries 1933 The first-ever All-Star Game was played at Comiskey Park. The White Sox won a coin flip ...2024
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• Braves lose Acuña but win baseball game, 8-1

Photo by Justin Berl/Getty Images If it felt a little like 2022 and a little like 2023 so far in 2024, now it feels a little like 2021 as well The Braves won this baseball game, 8-1, routing the Pirates thanks to another good outing from Chris Sale and a bunch of barreled balls that didn’t actually result in outs for once. But, the bigger issue was that early on, Ronald Acuña Jr. departed ...2024
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• South Side Sox Player of the Week (September 26-October 5): Lance Lynn
Mitch Ransdell/South Side Sox October dawns, and the dust of the pennant race has settled. What happens now? Where am I? On the South Side, this week feels a little like waking up during the second act of a Hangover movie: Tony La Russa is missing, empty bottles of Malört litter the clubhouse floor, and Ken Williams has a face tattoo. Rest assured, there’s one thing that hasn’t changed. B...2022
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• Scott Miller's Starting 9: Star-Power, Rebuilt Rosters Make NL West Must-See TV
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"The Pirates and catcher Yasmani Grandal are in agreement on a contract, per reporter Francys Romero."

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"Yasmani Grandal then bounced a potential double play ball to Massey, but it ate him up and bounced into center."

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"Yasmani Grandal, who hurt himself trying to score from second base on Saturday, isn’t going to miss as much time as anyone would have thought."

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"Guaranteed Contracts Yasmani Grandal, C: $36."

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"Yasmani Grandal scouting report: Why the White Sox's new catcher will make a big difference on the South Side"

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"It’s a big move for a team that already signed All-Star catcher Yasmani Grandal and brought back first baseman José Abreu."

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"All-Star pitcher Alex Wood agreed to a $6 million deal with the Dodgers, and catcher Yasmani Grandal settled at $7."

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"Yasmani Grandal, Adrian Gonzalez and Corey Seager each went deep as the Dodgers secured home-field advantage throughout the National League playoffs with a 9-2 victory over the Padres on Tuesday night."

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"But that was then and this is the National League Championship Series and the Dodgers lead it, two games to one, after Yasmani Grandal and Justin Turner took Arrieta deep and Rich Hill silenced the Cubs in a 6-0 win on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium."

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"Yasmani Grandal hit a pair of three-run home runs and logged eight RBIs as the Dodgers scored a four-game series split by beating the Brewers, 14-4, at Miller Park on Thursday."

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"Matt Kemp nearly won a Most Valuable Player award with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2011, but with a crowded outfield and needing help in other areas on the diamond, the team has decided to move on, trading him to the San Diego Padres for catcher Yasmani Grandal, pitcher Joe Wieland and a prospect."

• Today in White Sox History: November 21
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• Yoán Moncada’s $25 million option declined
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• Baseball history unpacked, October 18
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• Assessing Rays 2025 Catcher Targets
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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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• On the eve of 121 losses
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• Why the Pirates made the right decision moving Oneil Cruz to center field at a curious time
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• Today in White Sox History: August 16

On this day 50 years ago — and for the third time in 1974 — fives were wild for Jorge Orta. Jorge Orta is wild about fives 1927 Babe Ruth hit the first rooftop home run in Comiskey Park history, when he blasted a shot off of Tommy Thomas. The ball was estimated to have gone 474 feet. The Yankees won, 8-1. Ruth’s home run came in the fifth inning, and was a solo shot. Former White Sox manag...2024
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• Things have gotten impossibly bleak for the White Sox

Photo by Joe Robbins/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images There are a lot of bad teams in baseball right now but none of them are as deeply entrenched in the mud as the Chicago White Sox are right now. Earlier this week, I talked about how the Houston Astros were stuck in a mighty struggle and relatively uncharted territory when compared to the lofty standard that they’ve set as a franchise. W...2024
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• Baseball history unpacked, October 18
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• Today in White Sox History: October 10

It was 118 years ago today that Ed Reulbach pitched the Cubs back into the Crosstown World Series, spinning a one-hitter. | Chicago History Museum/Getty Images The Cubs even the World Series, rendering the Wonders almost Hitless 1906 After shocking the heavily-favored Cubs in the World Series opener, 2-1, the White Sox were one-hit by Ed Reulbach in a 7-1 setback. Jiggs Donahue had the onl...2024
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• Six Pack of Stats: Pirates 6, White Sox 2

Justin Casterline/Getty Images another lost series, another new benchmark set As the White Sox were losing another game, top prospect in the system Noah Schultz was getting mauled in the Futures Game. Just another Saturday on the South Side, folks! Big Swing/Top Play Baseball Savant Bryan Reynolds, heading to the All-Star Game on Tuesday, singled in Ke’Bryan Hayes an...2024
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• Braves lose Acuña but win baseball game, 8-1
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 45

Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images An unsuccessful homecoming as the Cubs lose to the Pirates 5-4. These last few days for the Cubs have been a great example of the old baseball adage that is “momentum is the next day’s starting pitcher.” That really ends up an awkward way of saying that a strong starting pitcher performance gives you a chance to win every day, regardless of the foe. Of co...2024
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• Pirates 5, Cubs 4: Backwards day

Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images This time, it was Cubs starting pitching that failed. So pretty much all year, the Cubs starting rotation has been nails, while the bullpen has been a carnival roller-coaster ride. Thursday night, instead, we were “treated” to the spectacle of last year’s ace, Justin Steele, have his second straight bad outing against the Pirates, while the bullpen kept t...2024
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• Game Thread #41: Milwaukee Brewers (24-16) vs. Pittsburgh Pirates (18-23)

Benny Sieu-USA TODAY Sports Brewers welcome the Buccos to town Fresh off a 3-1 series victory over the St. Louis Cardinals, the division-leading Milwaukee Brewers will welcome another division foe to American Family Field this evening, as the Pittsburgh Pirates are in town for a three-game series. The two teams split a four-game set from April 22-25. Pittsburgh sits third in the division, ...2024
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• Paul Skenes' MLB debut was unforgettable for the most unexpected reason

Photo by Justin Berl/Getty Images Anything can happen on any given day at a baseball stadium. Just ask the Pirates and the Cubs and they'll tell you. For the first time in years, the eyes of the baseball world were actually firmly focused on what was going on at PNC Park in Pittsburgh this past Saturday night. While a divisional weekend tilt between the NL Central-leading Chicago Cubs and ...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: November 21
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• Braves dig early hole, lose to Pirates 11-5

Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports The Braves fell behind early and were unable to recover in Friday’s loss to the Pirates Ray Kerr struggled early and the Atlanta Braves never recovered in a 11-5 loss Friday night to the Pittsburgh Pirates. Kerr was recalled on Friday and was making his first career start. He found himself in trouble early as Andrew McCutchen singles and then moved to thi...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 45
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• Comeback effort falls short as Brewers lose 8-6

Mark Hoffman/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / USA TODAY NETWORK Pirates take the first game of the series, Hoskins leaves with leg injury Box Score The Milwaukee Brewers and Pittsburgh Pirates started their second series of the season this evening at American Family Field, with Colin Rea taking the hill for the Brewers against the Pirates’ Mitch Keller. Bryan Reynolds had five hits, and Keller...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 40

Jerome Miron-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs reach the quarter mark with a weird loss. Before we get into the recap and discussion of yesterday’s game and world of Cub, let’s take a minute to be thankful for the mom’s of the world. We would have nothing without the sacrifices and the contributions the women in our lives make. Take some time today to honor those wonderful women in and around our...2024
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• Cub Tracks gets its steps in

Photo by Jamie Sabau/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes plus extras, four days a week. On National GlenAllen Hill Remembrance Day, the Cubs faced Paul Skenes, who was as advertised. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball, overheated, steeped ...2024
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• 2024 AL Central preview: The search for signs of life beyond Minnesota

Photo by Frank Jansky/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Twins needed only 87 wins to take the division title in 2023. The ceiling probably won’t be much higher. In 2023, the AL Central was easily the worst division in baseball. It wasn’t in danger of going full 1994 AL West or anything, but at the All-Star break, the Cleveland Guardians were in first place at a dead-even 45-45. All four...2024
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• South Side Sox Player of the Week (March 3-11): Eloy Jiménez

Mitch Ransdell/South Side Sox A rundown of our lifetime MVPs, at 86 and counting Given a second consecutive Player of the Week accolade plus the unlikelihood he’ll win a third straight (Eloy has not played since March 13, gulp), we’ll go a different direction with the essay this week. Perhaps for the first time, let’s break down the running total of MVPs, which we have been naming now alo...2024
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• Filthy Rich: LA blanks Cubs again!
Jake Arrieta threw a no-hitter when he pitched in Dodger Stadium 14 months ago. But that was then and this is the National League Championship Series and the Dodgers lead it, two games to one, after Yasmani Grandal and Justin Turner took Arrieta deep and Rich Hill silenced the Cubs in a 6-0 win on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium....2016
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• Filthy Rich: LA blanks Cubs again!
Jake Arrieta threw a no-hitter when he pitched in Dodger Stadium 14 months ago. But that was then and this is the National League Championship Series and the Dodgers lead it, two games to one, after Yasmani Grandal and Justin Turner took Arrieta deep and Rich Hill silenced the Cubs in a 6-0 win on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium....2016
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• Kershaw mows down Mets with 13-K shutout
Record-setter Clayton Kershaw fired a three-hit shutout with 13 strikeouts and rode home runs by Yasmani Grandal and Chase Utley to a 5-0 Dodgers win over the Mets Thursday night at Dodger Stadium, splitting the four-game series....2016
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• Kershaw mows down Mets with 13-K shutout
Record-setter Clayton Kershaw fired a three-hit shutout with 13 strikeouts and rode home runs by Yasmani Grandal and Chase Utley to a 5-0 Dodgers win over the Mets Thursday night at Dodger Stadium, splitting the four-game series....2016
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• Mets blanked by Kershaw on rough night for Colon
Record-setter Clayton Kershaw fired a three-hit shutout with 13 strikeouts and rode home runs by Yasmani Grandal and Chase Utley to a 5-0 Dodgers win over the Mets Thursday night at Dodger Stadium, splitting the four-game series....2016
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• Grandal's 3 HRs lead LA past SD in slugfest
Yasmani Grandal won his own version of the Home Run Derby on Friday night, launching three of the Dodgers' five homers as they outslugged the Padres, 10-6, and snapped a three-game losing streak...2016
• Grandal's 3 HRs lead LA past SD in slugfest
Yasmani Grandal won his own version of the Home Run Derby on Friday night, launching three of the Dodgers' five homers as they outslugged the Padres, 10-6, and snapped a three-game losing streak...2016
• Grand finale! Yasmani's 8 RBIs lift Dodgers over Crew
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• White Sox Bats Turn Hunter Into The Hunted
The White Sox have been homer-less all season. Not literally. But it's been bad. Andrew Vaughn (1-for-3) hit his 16th homer. It is so wild that he leads the White Sox in homers. White Sox all went to the offseason seminar at the Ramada titled, "Arraez and Shine," hosted by Luis. This September Eloy Jimenez (0-for-3, 1 run) became the first White Sox player in a month with five or more homers. On t...2022
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• La Pantera, ft. Eloy Jimenez — Don’t Worry, It Only Sounds Like A Pitbull Song
Roughly three months ago, we were talking about the grave, man. Not Kendall, but the one where Luis Robert (2-for-5, 1 RBI) was placed with care next to Eloy Jimenez (2-for-4, 5 RBIs and his 4th and 5th homer). Where Yermin Mercedes later joined him, then Yasmani Grandal, then Billy Hamilton, then Adam Eaton, but who cares about him. Really, the only ones not missing time for the White Sox has bee...2021
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• Catchers To Target, 2021 Fantasy Baseball
Here, friend, are some catchers that I will be targeting at my 2021 fantasy drafts after the top options are gone. I’m not going to get into the strategy of punting catchers. Been there, half-drunkenly wrote that during the Ottoman Empire. Applies to oranges, it still applies. Click on the player’s name where applicable to read more and see their 2021 projections and blurbs I wrote for them. This ...2021
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• Today in White Sox History: November 21
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• Why the Pirates made the right decision moving Oneil Cruz to center field at a curious time
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• Pitchers' duel goes to Pirates, Brewers shut out 1-0

Photo by John Fisher/Getty Images Paul Skenes took a no-hitter through seven innings Box Score After trading blowout games to start the series, the Brewers and Pirates had a pitchers’ duel to finish up with the rubber match. Aaron Civale and Paul Skenes matched up well against each other, with Skenes taking a no-hitter through seven innings. This was the Brewers first time facing Skenes i...2024
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• Braves lose Acuña but win baseball game, 8-1
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• Today in White Sox History: January 29

Was Ozzie Guillén happy to be with Baltimore, and not the White Sox? Seeing as he was released a day after this photo, the answer is no. | Mitchell Layton/Getty Images Ozzie’s tenure comes to an end 1964 Jim Brosnan is given permission from the White Sox to seek a deal with another team, after GM Ed Short forbids any further in-season writing (Brosnan previously had authored the classic b...2024
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• This Day in MLB History: January 29

Photo by Scott Halleran/Getty Images MLB History 1901 - The Rules Committee comprised of Connie Mack, John McGraw and Charles Comiskey reject a proposal that would have banned the bunt and recommends no changes to the game at this time. 1930 - The Boston Red Sox sell former home run champ Ken Williams to the New York Yankees. However after acquiring him, New York will release Williams bef...2024
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• Bird App Recap: Yankees 7, White Sox 1

@tom_paints What a snoozefest How will the White Sox disappoint us today? Perhaps the lineup against the Yankees will foreshadow something. Tonight's #WhiteSox starters vs. New York: pic.twitter.com/ZTuct5beYv— Chicago White Sox (@whitesox) August 8, 2023 The theme, however, seems to have the opposite effect on fans — it’s Yacht Rock night! *cues Yacht Rock music* pic.twitter.com...2023
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• South Side Sox Player of the Week (July 28-August 3): Jesse Scholtens

Mitch Ransdell/South Side Sox The late-blooming rookie helps the White Sox limp (crawl?) through the dog days of summer with a pair of solid starts Jesse Scholtens’ South Side debut last April didn’t generate much of a buzz, but his recent pitching starts certainly have. After the trade deadline left the White Sox rotation as hollow as Rick Hahn’s head, Scholtens got his chance to shine ...2023
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• Bird App Recap: White Sox 5, Yankees 1

Nothing to see here I am happy to report that absolutely nothing of note happened between yesterday’s finale in Cleveland and tonight’s game back in Chicago. NOT. Jesse Rogers broke a story late last night, with telling quotes from Keynan Middleton. Filed to ESPN: Former White Sox reliever Keynan Middleton documents dysfunction as he saw it in Chicago. ‘No rules': Ex-White Sox pitcher rips club'...2023
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• Another embarrassing Bummer
Go home, Bummer. | Michael Reaves/Getty Images Stellar White Sox pitching by Cease is punished by nonexistent offense and the mother of all Bummers Happy Monday, White Sox fans, and Happy Wasted Dylan Cease Day. Chances are that you drifted off to dreamland shortly after the seemingly random 8:38 p.m. CST start, in which case I’m here to help you fill in those sleepy gaps. I hope you had ...2023
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• Outside The Confines: Twist of fate! Carlos Correa to the Mets
Matt Krohn-USA TODAY Sports Carlos Correa spurns the Giants for the Mets. The second-tier free agents start to sign. And other news from around MLB. This shocking news that Carlos Correa has just signed with the Mets broke after midnight on the West Coast last night. I assume this is for real, although Heyman was the man who reported that Aaron Judge signed with the Giants. This does seem...2022
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