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A lot of the second half offensive numbers will still show the White Sox as resurgent since the All-Star break, as their 120 wRC+ as a team is still the fourth-best mark in baseball over that span. But they've been outscored 40-23 over their ongoing six-game skid, and the recent scourge of short outings from starting pitchers, where no one has completed six innings since the … [Read more...] about Pregame notes: Losing streak putting a crimp in second half narrative

The minor league development list was instituted in 2021, in part to stop teams from simply phantom IL-ing prospects who needed a reset, and suggestions to send major leaguers down to Triple-A to "figure things out" seemingly emerged from the woodwork three minutes after American sports talk radio was invented. So, the White Sox haven't reinvented the wheel by how often and … [Read more...] about White Sox notes: Jonathan Cannon gunning to be the second successful intervention of the season

A couple of weeks ago, I looked through the Statcast data to see whether Andrew Vaughn made any drastic changes with Milwauke that allowed him to discover the kind of power that eluded him most of the time with the White Sox. The only thing that jumped out was a slightly shorter, slightly quicker swing. Vaughn refuses to stop hitting, to the point that those who aren't … [Read more...] about Following up: Andrew Vaughn, the hitter Milwaukee made famous

If linear development could ever be guaranteed, then it would be easy to see July as a turning point for the White Sox's fortunes. They couldn't quite secure their first non-losing month since June 2023, but the arrow pointed up in several other regards, and while the trade deadline removed a couple of reliable veteran contributors, it didn't vivisect them the way last year's … [Read more...] about Month in a Box: The White Sox in July 2025

At 10-6 since the All-Star break, the real key numbers to watch for the White Sox are finally the only ones that ever mattered: the gosh-dang final score! But West Coast games feel like they take forever to arrive, and there's plenty of other nuggets to zero in on over the course of the day. The post Fact and figures to watch over the White Sox’s homestretch appeared first on … [Read more...] about Fact and figures to watch over the White Sox’s homestretch