Following the White Sox’s season-sealing 11-inning loss to the Cleveland Guardians, I wrote about how Liam Hendriks’ descent into standard closer usage was so intractable that the pattern couldn’t even be broken in a last-stand situation. The only question was…
Miguel Cairo fell on his sword after Tuesday’s season-shortening loss to the Cleveland Guardians, and he indeed made his share of mistakes. He underestimated the pressure that Jimmy Lambert experienced in a seventh inning that seemed better suited for Reynaldo…
The last two times the White Sox climbed over .500 were the last two times that the White Sox used Joe Kelly, Kendall Graveman and Liam Hendriks in successive order. Those games came two months apart. The one on May…
I’d forgotten that Liam Hendriks doesn’t handle altitude well until he mentioned it during his media session following the White Sox’s 2-1 victory over the Rockies Tuesday night. Granted, there isn’t much of a reason to think about it since…
The White Sox’s win on Wednesday against Cleveland, while appreciated, wasn’t the kind I was hoping for with the Guardians starting Aaron Civale. The White Sox needed a conventional, respectable win against a conventional, respectable right-handed starter. Civale indeed started,…
Liam Hendriks is back, just in time for the start of the big three-game series with the Minnesota Twins at Guaranteed Rate Field. The White Sox activated Hendriks from his right flexor strain as part of a series of four…
Lance Lynn chose not to elaborate on his spat in the dugout with Joe McEwing during his start on Monday against the Tigers. He chose to say it was about steak, which 1) brought to mind A.J. Pierzynski and Jake…
By pitching in six games over eight days in early May, Liam Hendriks proved that he’ll take the ball as often as he can. By pitching only one of the last six days — and being completely unavailable in two…
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…