This is the landing spot for the White Sox nuggets I have tweeted out and/or used in my “Sox In The Basement” podcast appearances) throughout 2025:
*Kyle Teel’s start in the leadoff spot on Aug. 25 was the first by a White Sox catcher since Bruce Kimm on Aug 7, 1980.
Teel, Kimm and Brian Downing are the only catchers to hit first for the Sox. Kimm did it 3 times while Brian Downing did it twice meaning the Sox have hit their catcher first in just six of their 19,471 games
*Sean Burke set a White Sox record for relievers with 10 strikeouts in the season’s penultimate contest on Sept. 27 in Washington.
*Shane Smith, Tyler Alexander, Jordan Leasure and Jonathan Cannon combined for 13 strikeouts which were tied for the most in a Sox combined 1-hitter in the season’s final game on Sept. 28 in Washington.
*Will Venable tied Lou Fonseca for the most losses by a first-year Sox manager. Lou dropped 102 games in 1932.
*Chase Meidroth led the Majors with a .327 average and .393 obp leading off games.
*Shane Smith’s 145 strikeouts were the most by a White Sox rookie righty and are second on the Sox rookie list behind Gary Peters’ 189 in 1963
*Mike Vasil’s average of 6.6 hits per 9 innings was lowest among MLB rookies with at least 100 innings. Vasil’s total was the second-lowest among Sox rookies behind Frank Lange’s 6.4 in 1910
*Grant Taylor’s 36.2 homerless innings were the most by a Sox pitcher since Jesse Crain’s 36.2 in his all-star season of 2013. The last Sox pitcher to turn in more than the 36.2 homeless innings Taylor and Crain had was Terry Forster with 37 in 1975.
In the live ball era (since 1920), the only Sox rookies with more homerless innings than Taylor’s 36.2 in 2025 are Ehren Wasserman (42.2 in 2007-08) and Jim Moore (40 in 1930).
*Mike Vasil’s 2.18 ERA in 2025 was the lowest at the Sox current home by a pitcher with at least 53.1 innings and it was the lowest at any Sox home since Rich Gossage’s 1.58 in 1975.
*Kyle Teel’s .312 home average was the highest by a Sox catcher in their current home and the highest overall since Carlton Fisk hit .345 in 1989. In addition’s Teel’s average was the highest at home by a Sox rookie lefty since Pete Ward hit .324 in ‘63
*Shane Smith eight strikeouts on Sept. 23 were the highest by a Sox pitcher in his first outing at either Yankee Stadium and tied for the most by a Sox hurler making his first appearance in NYC since Skip Pitlock whiffed 8 at Shea Stadium, the Yanks temporary residence, on May 27, 1974
*Sept. 16 marked the first time in franchise history that two number 64s squared off on the mound when the Sox Shane Smith and the Orioles’ Dean Kremer started against each other
*The eight pitchers used on Sept. 10 vs. Tampa Bay were the most ever by the Sox in a 9-inning win at home.
The last time the Sox used more than eight hurlers in a win was in a 4-3 victory in 15 innings at Philadelphia on Aug. 2, 2019 in a game where pitcher-turned-left fielder Vince Velasquez threw out Jose Abreu at the plate
The Sox record for pitchers used in a game is 10 in a 12-11 loss in 14 innings in Oakland on April 18, 2018.
*On Sept. 9, Brooks became the first Baldwin to triple for the Sox since James Baldwin’s 3-bagger on July 17, 1999 in St. Louis
*Colson Montgomery’s 18 homers while playing shortstop were the eighth-highest total in Sox history.
*Colson Montgomery’s 18 homers while playing shortstop were the most ever by a left-handed hitter. The previous high was five by Mike Caruso in 1998. Ozzie Guillen is the Sox all-time leader among left-handed hitting shortstops with 24 homers
*Montgomery’s 10 homers in August tied Jose Abreu’s output in April and June of 2014 for the most by ever by a Sox rookie in a month.
*Montgomery’s 18 homers are a Sox rookie record for shortstops.
*Rookie catchers Edgar Quero and Kyle Teel combined to make 21 starts in the third spot in 2025. In the previous 124 years of the White Sox existence, freshman backstops made just four starts in three-hole and those came in 1942, 1959 and 1961
*Teel became just the second catcher in Sox history to amass at least three hits with a homer, a double, four RBI and a steal in a game on Sept. 4 in Minnesota. The only other time that happened was on Aug. 29, 2001 when Josh Paul pulled it off in Detroit.
*Mike Vasil’s retired three MVPs in a row — Goldschmidt (fly out), Judge (fly out) and Bellinger (called strikeout) — with the tying run on base to nail down a 3-2 win over the Yankees on Aug. 31
*Teel (1), Quero (2), Fisk (3), Pierzynski (4), Josephson (1) and Masi (2) are the only Sox catchers to have 3-hit games as a no. 3 batter.
*Lenyn Sosa’s 10 starts in the cleanup spot in 2025 were the most by a White Sox second baseman since Cass Michael’s club-record 42 in 1949.
Jorge Orta (2), Sosa and Lew Fonseca are the only Sox second basemen to homer as cleanup hitters.
*Brooks Baldwin is the only player in the 125-year history of the White Sox to walk three times and homer in a game out of the ninth spot … He did that on Aug. 18 in Atlanta