South Side Sox

Perhaps the White Sox should cut against the grain and shoot for more Rod Carews, fewer three-outcome guys. | Set Number: D95051 JGZ Time to go against the grain in MLB, to save big money and win lots of games Lots and lots of commentators lament the fact the White Sox don’t have more power hitting, specifically more home runs. But they’re wrong, guilty of … [Read more...] about Like Jericho’s, White Sox walls should come tumblin’ down

Jim Delsing saw just a short stint on the South Side before being shipped away on this day, 76 years ago. | Transcendental Graphics/Getty Images A minor swap with New York that turned out about as even as can be 1948 The White Sox dealt young center fielder Jim Delsing to the Yankees for first baseman-left fielder Bud Souchock. And by any account the deal was a draw … [Read more...] about Today in White Sox History: December 14

Danielle Parhizkaran/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Who is the ninth-best prospect in the White Sox system? The trade of Garrett Crochet to Boston, bringing in four top prospects from a system at least as good as ours, is a good enough time as any to signal a transition in the voting and to get rid of the expended Prospect Vote history that topped each of the first … [Read more...] about 2025 South Side Sox Prospect Vote: Round 9

More than 10 years after his major league debut, Bill Robinson won a World Series with the Pirates in 1979. On this day 53 years ago, the White Sox helped him along on that journey. A mostly-brutal day of transactions 1969 The White Sox dealt their star lefthander Gary Peters and catcher Don Pavletich to the Red Sox for Syd O’Brien and Billy Farmer. (Farmer retired … [Read more...] about Today in White Sox History: December 13

Birmingham Barons Expanded to a 13-player ballot, to accommodate the Garrett Crochet deal The trade of Garrett Crochet to Boston, bringing in four top prospects from a system at least as good as ours, is a good enough time as any to signal a transition in the voting and to get rid of the expended Prospect Vote history that has topped each of the first seven votes. Given … [Read more...] about 2025 South Side Sox Prospect Vote: Round 8