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4 days to Opening Day, White Sox fans! Luis Robert is on track to make his fourth straight opening day start in center field for the Sox. Should that happen, he will become the first Sox center fielder to accomplish that since Lance Johnson’s run of six straight in the early 1990s. In addition, no player originally signed by the Sox has made more than three … [Read more...] about COUNTDOWN TO WHITE SOX OPENING DAY: 4 DAYS! (ROBERT HEADS FOR RARE AIR)

5 days to Opening Day, White Sox fans! Two of my favorite White Sox players donned No. 5: Juan Uribe and Ray Durham. While those two are the most recognizable White Sox No. 5s, some interesting players have donned it in the past. How about … –Carl Everett in 2003 –Ron Karkovice in 1987 and 1988 –Vance Law from 1982 to 1984 –Bobby Molinaro from 1977 to … [Read more...] about COUNTDOWN TO WHITE SOX OPENING DAY: 5 DAYS (A PAIR OF GREAT 5s)

6 days to Opening Day, White Sox fans! Magglio Ordonez is No. 6 on the White Sox all-time home run list. Ordonez hit 187 homers for the Sox between 1997 and 2004. … [Read more...] about COUNTDOWN TO WHITE SOX OPENING DAY: 6 DAYS (O WEE O, MAGGLIO)

7 days until Opening Day, White Sox fans! Wearing No. 7, Tim Anderson will be a mainstay at shortstop for the Sox this season. Well, there’s always the option of second base, since Anderson played there — and pretty well I might add — for the first six times in his life at the recently-completed World Baseball Classic. Here’s more from me on TA … @SOXNERD WHITE … [Read more...] about COUNTDOWN TO WHITE SOX OPENING DAY: 7 DAYS (TIMMY!)