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The trade deadline arrives today at 5 p.m. CT, which the White Sox acknowledged with action on Wednesday by sending Austin Slater to the Yankees for A-ball righty Gage Ziehl. That leaves Luis Robert Jr. and Adrian Houser among the White Sox who could/should be on other teams by the end of the day. Let's use this thread to follow the action. The post White Sox deadline day open … [Read more...] about White Sox deadline day open thread

Sometimes you spend a lot of Tuesday afternoon talking with team officials about the logic behind trade targets rarely getting scratched from lineups until a deal is pretty close, in anticipation of a full afternoon of loyal Sox Machine readers wondering why on Earth the team would risk starting Adrian Houser the day before the trade deadline. Only for the team to go ahead and … [Read more...] about Pregame notes: Are they really going to play this game today?

When I spoke to Sergio Santos in his first month as the manager of the Birmingham Barons last year, he said that his experience as a minor league shortstop and a major league reliever gave him a useful perspective on reaching his whole roster. "I've been that everyday player, every single day, to being a relief pitcher ... I feel like the guys know it. I can have a pitcher ask … [Read more...] about Knights notes: Sergio Santos takes pride in White Sox rookie successes

Even when your work is behind a paywall, if you do this job for long enough, people start to identify what kind of stories you write. So it was unsurprising the other day to have a -- non-baseball operations -- White Sox employee lean in and ask: "Have you figured out why they're hitting fastballs now?" The post How and why are the White Sox crushing fastballs since the … [Read more...] about How and why are the White Sox crushing fastballs since the All-Star break?

The White Sox front office could argue that their free agent pursuits this past offseason were carried out with intention, but the dollar figures didn't suggest ambition. Their biggest outlays were for a yeoman innings-eater who sometimes doesn't break 90 mph and a glove-first infielder who doesn't play shortstop, and between injury and underperformance, neither have produced … [Read more...] about White Sox piecemeal, defense-minded approach to right field is outproducing their more hyped past efforts