White Sox Fans are uniting together in the replies to send “Mr .076” Martin Maldonado to represent their team in the All Star Game
@barstoolchicago
#VoteMaldy
A
#WhiteSox
ticket rep reached out to me about my experience as a fan and my plans for 2023. I told her I had nothing to offer but expletives and complaints, and wouldn't be getting a ticket package.
She replied encouraging me to elaborate, so I did.
If a
#Cubs
fan points out to you that this was just an exhibition game, they are 100% right.
The
#WhiteSox
would never throw Drew Anderson against their Opening Day starter in a real game.
#WhiteSox
record since losing.....
Eloy Jimenez: 40-24 (.625)
Luis Robert: 25-12 (.676)
Michael Kopech: 12-4 (.750)
Nick Madrigal: 3-0 (1.000)
Resilience.
Major flurry of MLB activity
METS: Signed Scherzer, Marte, Cahna, Escobar
RANGERS: Signed Semien, Gray, Calhoun
WHITE SOX: Tweeted about their third string catcher hitting three home runs in a loss
When he left, I assumed it would be because his growing national profile would prevent him from being a team's primary announcer.
I did not think it would be because this stupid franchise would value him less than a division rival.
Thank you Jason.
Pound sand, White Sox.
#WhiteSox
fans going to the games this series have an obligation to give Keynan Middleton a standing ovation if he gets into the game.
Send a message to the team. We're on Keynan's side, not yours.
Your 2024
#WhiteSox
are going to be fresh. The stale faces you’ve seen for years will be gone. There’s going to be a new energy about the ballclub. Guys are going to be grinding out at-bats, working to prove themselves, and giving it their all. They are going to lose 127 games.
How bad must the
#WhiteSox
culture be for a 29-year-old fringy reliever like Middleton, whose career could be eover in the blink of an eye, to come out and talk about it like that. He has nothing to gain from this and at worst, blackballed himself. He must’ve been so frustrated.
Billy, this is Chris Getz. He's one of the youngest up-and-coming executives in baseball. He already has years of experience in player development for the Royals and White Sox. His defect is that he has years of experience in player development for the Royals and White Sox.
Today we learned
#Bulls
fans are so stupid that they booed a deceased executive who won six rings instead of a living owner who was the actual cause of the problem.
Shame on everyone who did this. Even if you didn’t like Krause, he didn’t hear your boos, but this person did.
Former Bulls GM Jerry Krause was boo'd during the team's Ring of Honor ceremony at halftime.
His wife Thelma, who appeared in his place, was captured on the big screen and visibly emotional during the booing.
The
#WhiteSox
play the Cubs tomorrow. This used to be appointment viewing, but now no one cares because Sox fans hate the Sox even more than Cubs fans hate the Sox
Mark Buehrle
- Only pitcher to face the minimum 27 batters three times, with 2 no-hitters and 1 perfect game
- Greatest defensive pitcher of his era
- 14 straight seasons of 200+ IP
- 2nd-most consecutive batters retired ever (45)
- Pace of play savior
- Drunk World Series save
In ten games, the
#WhiteSox
went from being so confident in Andrew Vaughn that they refused to sign a DH, to refusing to play him over the 7th outfielder on the depth chart despite Vaughn's .400 OBP and a 104 wRC+.
Takeaways:
1) Kopech and Cease look great. When healthy, the rotation is probably going to be pretty darn good.
2) The team misses Yoan Moncada more than any of the haters could possibly believe
3) I am pretty worried about Eloy — performance and health.
4) TLR sucks
As this season winds down I want to thank
@jasonbenetti
and
@stevestone
for the best broadcasts we could ask for. We’ll miss you guys in the postseason.
The
#WhiteSox
have a 3B with a .395 OBP and 2.5 WAR and somehow there's repeated complaints of disappointment.
Moncada's been the best position player on the team.
List of currently injured
#WhiteSox
:
Luis Robert
Yoan Moncada
Yasmani Grandal
Eloy Jimenez
Liam Hendriks
Garrett Crochet
Aaron Bummer
Adam Engel
Danny Mendick
Leury Garcia
Kyle Crick
Pain.
Following multiple positive COVID-19 tests within the Cleveland Guardians organization, today's game has been postponed to allow for continued testing and contact tracing. Major League Baseball will provide a rescheduling update when it becomes available.
The
#WhiteSox
are having a really tough time with injuries so it's unfair to judge them. The
#Twins
, on the other hand have been lucky, as they're only missing:
Maeda
Correa
Lewis
Sano
Dobnak
Paddack
Winder
Gray
Ryan
Ober
Alcala
Stashak
Coulombe
Garlick
Romero
This is fascinating. The last time Garrett Crochet threw four innings in a game -- any game -- as best as I can tell, was against the Florida Gators on May 11, 2019.
The 3 top
#WhiteSox
stories tweeted during the Winter Meetings by
@NBCSWhiteSox
:
1) White Sox made a rule 5 pick
2) Dylan Cease shaved his mustache
3) 42-year-old DH who posted -0.9 WAR in 2022 wants to play for the Sox.
Thanks to Rick Hahn and Jerry Reinsdorf for a great week.
- Relocation rumors
- FO fired & replaced by unqualified guy with no search
- Good/likable 3B traded for very little
- Face of the franchise plays his way off the team
- Gunshots in the park
- Beloved announcer leaves for division rival.
- 101 losses
This is only since August
The Angels just fired the guy who was considered the most innovative and best manager in baseball 6 years ago and the White Sox can't fire the guy who retired five years before that.
The
#WhiteSox
have no Golden Age. We've only ever made the playoffs in consecutive years using a backdoor third place in a fake season. The team last won a playoff series in 2005. Before that, the last time was when Woodrow Wilson was president. Success should not be this rare.
At this point, if you are still defending Tony La Russa, it's out of nothing but a stubborn refusal to change your mind when presented with new information.
3/21: Eloy has a bruised foot. Day-to-day
3/28: Eloy placed on 10-day IL
3/30: Eloy’s injury may be worse than initially feared
4/8: X-ray shows seven fractures in Eloy’s foot
4/23: Eloy underwent successful foot amputation at Rush. Foot transplant scheduled for January 2025
The
#Cubs
fired Rick Renteria to hire a premium manager from MLB's most forward-thinking franchise who instantly clicked with a young clubhouse
The
#WhiteSox
fired Rick Renteria to hire an old coot who's been out of the game a decade whose aura flies in the face of their culture
Please, please give us Tim Anderson flipping a bat at Wrigley Field. I know it's a lot to ask, seeing as how it's only a two-game series and all, but I feel like I really need this.
The Bears were winning this game 26-14 with 4:15 remaining and you are lamenting….that Justin Fields did not lead a 4th quarter “comeback.”
Somehow I feel like you are not focusing on the correct thing.
People literally watched Conor Gillaspie, Tyler Saladino, Jayson Nix, Brent Morel, Omar Vizquel, Josh Fields, Matt Davidson, Mark Teahen, and Jeff Keppinger at third base for a decade and are out here thinking Yoan Moncada is easily replaceable.
@KyleNeubeck
This is not only pretty mean but demonstrates a lack of understanding of how Jeopardy works. Being an expert at two categories does not convey a huge advantage. A geographer knows the capital of Alberta just as well as a good trivia player. They aren’t asking him to draw a map.
Erick Fedde was, no joke, on a 6.9 bWAR pace this season. Given how much *relievers* have been getting in this market, it is extremely disappointing that Chris Getz could not do better than this.
Dallas Keuchel 100% deserved to be DFA'd but it's kinda wild that he's the only guy anywhere in this organization this season who's been held accountable for performance.
Schriffen saw this and was like "NAW WE AIN'T TAKING THAT. WE AIN'T TAKING THAT FROM THE SUN-TIMES. I DON'T CARE WHAT PLACE OUR BOOTH IS RANKED. WE AIN'T TAKING THAT."
The
@suntimes_sports
Friday cover: Despite the steadying presence of Steve Stone, the White Sox’ TV booth is voted the worst in MLB thanks to John Schriffen's rocky rookie start. Story by
@JeffAgrest
.
The
#WhiteSox
have lost Luis Robert for 4 months. They've also gained monster breakouts from Rodon and Mercedes, a Moncada bounceback, Kopech as a serious weapon, and 4.5 games on the Twins. If you think they're toast now, you couldn't have thought they had a chance on April 1.
Leury Garcia has the second-worst batting line in the entire major leauges.
I am so, so sick of the manager talking about at-bats that he "earned" and "deserved."
Yasmani Grandal arguably is worth an extra five wins by himself. Short of signing Cole or Rendon, there is possibly no better move the
#WhiteSox
could have made. This is an unbelievable day.
The
#WhiteSox
end the season series against the Royals 9-1.
I want everyone who has followed this team since the year 2000 to read that sentence multiple times and be overwhelmed with feelings of calm and contentment.
I’m hoping for a status update on Colson Montgomery tomorrow when Rick Hahn meets the media in Chicago. A top 30 prospect in baseball hasn’t played yet this season with a back injury. Is he close to a return? Hopefully someone on the beat asks him.
#WhiteSox
It's only August 7 and the Mike Clevinger debacle is already like 20 embarrassments ago for this team. Hard to believe that even happened this same year.
Souring on Robert, Anderson, Moncada, Bummer, and Jimenez has been a painful experience over this last calendar year. I loved these players.
The
#WhiteSox
need to get rid of everyone and everything except the broadcasters, groundskeeper, and ballpark food.
The repeated fan shaming coming from White Sox leadership and mouthpieces like Bruce Levine is flat out ridiculous and offensive. WhiteSox fans support their team just as much (if not more) than those of the Cubs. But here are facts: (1/x)
Watching Mercedes load up and obliterate a 47 mph slowball was pure joy. It was one of the best parts of a game that had many great moments. If the people in the dugouts oppose it, that's anti-fun and anti-fan. And it needs to stop.
This is why
#ChangetheGame
is a thing.
I’m stunned. Speechless.
This is unquestionably great for the
#WhiteSox
.
I remain very uneasy because as GarPax was shown the door in favor of AK/Eversley, nothing really improved for the Bulls. Jerry remains the stubborn root of the rot.
But today we get to be happy.
Sounds like Andrew Vaughn will be the
#WhiteSox
Opening Day DH. We'll see if he can improve upon:
Edwin Encarnacion
Yonder Alonso
Matt Davidson
Cody Asche
Avisail Garcia
Adam LaRoche
Gonna be a high bar to clear, but let's be patient with him, he's a rookie.
“Support the team so we can sign players” is a ridiculous statement because the billionaire is asking people on a budget to spend what spare money they have in hopes their faith will be rewarded, when no reason has been given to believe that.
Quit fan shaming and build a winner.
Since Zack Collins' huge breakout that made him a star player that the
#WhiteSox
just weren't patient enough with, he is hitting .095/.208/.191 with 21 strikeouts in 48 plate appearances.
2020:
C: McCann
1B: Abreu
2B: Madrigal
SS: Anderson
3B: Moncada
LF: Jimenez
CF: Robert
RF:
DH:
SP1: Giolito
SP2: Kopech
SP3: Cease
SP4:
SP5:
That's a good base for contention. They should get a star RF and SP to offset McCann regression, Abreu decline and young player struggles
I want a big coordinated effort where someone in every section has this sign ready to be unfurled. As soon as security removes one sign, another one appears elsewhere in the ballpark, and so forth. One big ‘ol game of White Sox Security Whack-a-Mole
At the game, a 6 yr old girl from further down the row came up to us and started chatting with my daughter. They hit me with knock knock jokes for a few innings, it was cute. Then Cesar Hernandez came up and the other girl, suddenly attentive to the game, yelled “LET’S GO DADDY!”
The
#WhiteSox
entered this winter needing a starting RF, a starting 2B, and an SP.
They signed two relievers, a swingman worse than Lopez, and two utility guys.
The only 8-figure salary they’ve paid is for the reliever whose option they picked up and have struggled to trade.
Wait…Marcus Semien put up 7.6 and 6.6 WAR in his last full seasons (two top-3 MVP finishes) and people are coming at me saying the
#WhiteSox
— a team with serious (?) World Series aspirations — dodged a bullet by letting him go to Texas….because of the 2028 payroll???
GTFOH.