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Chicago White Sox designate Dallas Keuchel for assignment
Keuchel, 34, was 2-5 with a 7.88 ERA this season after compiling a 5.28 ERA in 32 games last year. After signing a three-year, $55.5 million deal with the White Sox before the 2020 season, he finished fifth in Cy Young voting with a 1.99 ERA. The White Sox don’t have much room in their […]
Continue readingJohnny Cueto has contract purchased by Chicago White Sox, will make season debut Monday vs. Kansas City Royals
Cueto, 36, joined the White Sox last month on a one-year deal worth up to $4.2 million and has made four starts at Triple-A Charlotte, posting a 5.17 ERA and 17 strikeouts over 15⅔ innings. The White Sox hope Cueto, a two-time All-Star, will help stabilize their short-handed starting rotation. “He pitches with style. He […]
Continue readingChicago White Sox win ‘Field of Dreams’ game on Tim Anderson’s walk-off home run
DYERSVILLE, Iowa — Tim Anderson recently admitted he has never watched the movie “Field of Dreams.” Well, he just submitted a pretty good script for a sequel. Anderson hit a two-run homer with one out in the ninth inning into the cornfield to end the “Field of Dreams” game in cinematic fashion, as the Chicago […]
Continue readingThe Chicago White Sox’s complicated coexistence with Tony La Russa
THIS IS IT: one last stand against the stenographers and yes-men, the bean counters and numbers crunchers, the button pushers and script readers. One last stand against those who live in mortal fear of being wrong, those who trust the numbers more than their gut, those without the stones to go against the percentages and […]
Continue readingMLB Power Rankings Week 11 – Did key injuries shake up our top five?
After a shortened 60-game 2020 MLB season, we’re already past that point in baseball’s return to a 162-game schedule with the All-Star break now less than a month away. What does that mean for your favorite team in our Week 11 MLB Power Rankings? The Tampa Bay Rays and Chicago White Sox both suffered significant […]
Continue readingInjuries couldn’t stop the Chicago White Sox from dominating
CHICAGO — There was nothing settled this week on the South Side of Chicago. No message was sent in advance of a possible ALCS preview. No pecking order was established in the junior circuit. Yet there is one snapshot that can be taken now that the three-game series between the Chicago White Sox and Tampa […]
Continue readingChicago White Sox’s Nick Madrigal out for rest of season after surgery on hamstring
He is expected to be ready for spring training next year, the team said. “To have the surgery, it clears away some of the uncertainty. I think this way it’s a way to put it behind him and start fresh,” manager Tony La Russa said. “It takes the decision out of him and he can […]
Continue readingChicago White Sox place 2B Nick Madrigal on 60-day IL with hamstring tear
Madrigal was helped off the field after he tried to beat out a grounder in the seventh inning of Wednesday night’s 6-2 loss to Toronto. The No. 4 overall pick in the 2018 amateur draft had been rounding into form of late, batting .365 (27-for-74) with two homers and 10 RBIs in his past 20 […]
Continue readingChicago White Sox’s Eloy Jimenez has surgery for torn pectoral
Hahn said the timeline hasn’t changed, though he left the door open for Jimenez to return sooner. “There’s a chance, certainly, that he beats that traditional time frame for this type of injury of five to six months,” he said. “But quite candidly, no one’s going to know that for at least 12 weeks until […]
Continue readingFantasy baseball daily notes: Pitcher and hitter rankings for Friday’s games
To be fair, the daily schedule has been subject to change all season long. However, it’s necessary to pay even more attention on Friday as several pitching spots are currently undecided. As always, there will be an update posted in the morning reflecting any necessary alterations. Earlier in the week, we had a day where […]
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