It’s always ill-advised to judge a player off two games, but sometimes it’s fun for noting purposes. After his disastrous eighth inning on Thursday in which he retired the first two batters before failing to retire his last five, Joe…
As the White Sox have drifted further away from Herm Schneider’s glory days and toward/past the league median of days lost to the injured list, they’ve made shake-ups to their training staff. This past winter, the White Sox fired longtime…
Rick Hahn had the unfortunate task of providing a start-of-a-homestand media address after his team went 0-6 on the road. Then the White Sox went out and lost an eighth straight game in just as dismal a fashion, so if…
Only one Cactus League park offers publicly available pitch-tracking info during spring training, which means that those who follow the White Sox are reliant on games at Salt River Fields to know how well their pitchers are throwing. One or…
Major League Baseball removed games from the schedule, but it technically has not yet cancelled games, or shortened the season otherwise. MLB keeps setting deadlines for a 162-game schedule, but those deadlines keep proving inessential. For what it’s worth, the…
Last winter, the White Sox’s biggest move was the signing of a free-agent closer for either $13.5 million or $18 million a year, depending on whether the White Sox exercised the final year. This winter started with the White Sox…
Liam Hendriks was Rick Hahn’s big free-agent signing last offseason figuring his new closer was the missing piece. Leading the American League in Saves and winning AL Reliever of the Year again, Hendriks lived up to his end. However, was…
Award season wraps up tonight with the coronation of the Most Valuable Players, which should be Shohei Ohtani in the American League if everybody maintained proper perspective of the sheer improbability of his existence, and an open question between Juan…
Just like Dallas Keuchel talked to the White Sox beat reporters a day after he won his Gold Glove, Liam Hendriks took his victory lap after winning Reliever of the Year for a second consecutive year. Hendriks remains conversational and…
Liam Hendriks won the American League Reliever of the Year Award in 2020, which is a big reason why the White Sox signed him for a three-to-four-year deal afterward. At least indirectly. Rick Hahn didn’t see Hendriks receive the honor…