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With the 2025 season officially finished, it’s time to look ahead to 2026. The White Sox front office will rely heavily on their farm system and young players who are now established on the roster. While they may bid low on a few free agents and hope they find another needle in a haystack with […]
From South Side Sox | about 7 hours ago | 0 reads
Colson Montgomery did more than surprise White Sox fans with his strong rookie season — he caught the attention of several MLB analysts. Each year, MLB ranks the Top 10 rookies based on their long-term value to their organizations, and this year Montgomery was No. 7 on the list. Ironically, this year is the first […]
From South Side Sox | 1 day ago | 0 reads
On Wednesday, the Athletics released their 2026 Spring Training Schedule. The first game is away against the White Sox on Saturday, February 21. The first home game at Hohokam Stadium in Mesa is the next day, Sunday, February 22 against the Cleveland Guardians. In addition to the typical Spring Training Season with games throughout the […]
From Athletics Nation | 1 day ago | 0 reads
1935 After a 22-year career logging a 229-217 record with a 3.84 ERA and 39.7 WAR (180th all-time among pitchers), “Sad” Sam Jones retired. The former Cleveland, Red Sox, Yankees, Browns and Senators player had ended his run with four seasons on the South Side. Jones was a curveball specialist, and while never a consistent […]
From South Side Sox | 1 day ago | 0 reads
Who is already missing baseball and counting down the days? Well, warm, sunny afternoons are already on the horizon as the Chicago White Sox just dropped their 2026 Spring Training slate. It all kicks off on Thursday, February 20, as the South Siders take on the North Siders in Mesa, Arizona. The Good Guys will […]
From South Side Sox | 2 days ago | 0 reads
Luis Robert Jr., you are still a South SiderThe White Sox are officially rolling the dice by exercising the $20 million club option on Luis Robert Jr. for the 2026 season. The team chose this over a $2 million buyout despite his struggles and an injury history that has seen him play in only 210 […]
From South Side Sox | 2 days ago | 0 reads
The 2025 MLB season just ended with a great World Series Game 7 last Saturday. Now it’s time to talk spring! As of the date of this post, we are just 107 days away from the Cubs’ Spring Training opener against the White Sox. Included in the 18-game Sloan Park home schedule is an exhibition […]
From Bleed Cubbie Blue | 2 days ago | 0 reads
1901 American League president Ban Johnson and his close friend/associate, White Sox owner Charles Comiskey, secure a five-year lease of Sportsman’s Park in St. Louis. Was a move of the White Sox afoot? No, the pair saw St. Louis as the new home for an AL team — and that team turned out to be […]
From South Side Sox | 3 days ago | 0 reads
Gosh, those World Series announcers were strange. The team of Joe Davis, John Smoltz, and sideline helpers actually spent almost the entire time the games were going on talking about what was happening on the field. Oh, they indulged in the occasional anecdote or reflection on earlier days. Still, unless I missed it, they spent […]
From South Side Sox | 3 days ago | 0 reads
1959 White Sox pitching standout and central Black Sox World Series fixer Lefty Williams died in Laguna Beach, Calif. Williams had just six games under his belt (1913-14) with the Detroit Tigers when the White Sox bought him out of the Pacific Coast League, where he’d spent 1915 killing it with the Salt Lake City […]
From South Side Sox | 3 days ago | 0 reads
It is the ninth year of Top Prospect voting at South Side Sox! First, let us review past years: To make sure we give the SSS readership a strong vote in our South Side Sox Top 100, we’re going to run five or 10 polls before kicking off our Top 100 Prospect countdown. Ideally, we […]
From South Side Sox | 4 days ago | 0 reads
The Arizona Fall League is already in its fourth week, and the White Sox have nine prospects in action, headlined by OF Braden Montgomery (White Sox No. 1/MLB No. 35) and LHP Hagen Smith (No. 5/No. 88). Rounding out the crew: IF Sam Antonacci (No. 11), RHP Tyler Davis, IF Ryan Galanie, RHP Carson Jacobs, […]
From South Side Sox | 4 days ago | 0 reads
1903 The drama surrounding the fate of future Hall of Fame shortstop George Davis finally appeared at an end, as the New York Giants left Davis off of their reserve list, essentially ceding the fight over his services to the White Sox. The White Sox had convinced Davis to jump from his longtime New York […]
From South Side Sox | 5 days ago | 0 reads
It is the ninth year of Top Prospect voting at South Side Sox! First, let us review past years: To make sure we give the SSS readership a strong vote in our South Side Sox Top 100, we’re going to run five or 10 polls before kicking off our Top 100 Prospect countdown. Ideally, we […]
From South Side Sox | 5 days ago | 0 reads
1946 Beloved White Sox broadcaster and member of the 1983 White Sox division champs Tom Paciorek was born in Detroit. Paciorek was a two-sport star at the University of Houston, drafted in the ninth round by the Miami Dolphins and the fifth by the Los Angeles Dodgers. Offering $18,000 more as a bonus to sign […]
From South Side Sox | 6 days ago | 0 reads
Our latest Reacts survey took on another daunting question related to last week’s: With many holes to fill looking ahead to the 2026 White Sox roster, where should the front office concentrate its efforts to improve? The answers were a bit surprising. If you believe that the more robust offense of the second half quells […]
From South Side Sox | 6 days ago | 0 reads
1946 Future White Sox owner (and current Cleveland owner) Bill Veeck has his right foot amputated. Veeck had suffered a grievous injury to his leg while serving in the South Pacific in World War II, and complications from that injury resulted in this dramatic development. True to his nature, however, Veeck eventually made his loss […]
From South Side Sox | 7 days ago | 0 reads
It is the ninth year of Top Prospect voting at South Side Sox! First, let us review past years: To make sure we give the SSS readership a strong vote in our South Side Sox Top 100, we’re going to run five or 10 polls before kicking off our Top 100 Prospect countdown. Ideally, we […]
From South Side Sox | 8 days ago | 0 reads
1937Ed Arthur Walsh, son of White Sox legend Ed Walsh, died of rheumatic fever after falling into a coma at his childhood home in Meriden, Conn. He was just 32 years old. Quite obviously, the younger Walsh would never escape the shadow of his father, a Hall-of-Famer and fifth all-time in White Sox WAR. However, […]
From South Side Sox | 8 days ago | 0 reads
Do you ever feel like punishing yourself for no real reason? That’s not the feeling that led me to revisit the “Bold Predictions” I made about the 2025 White Sox heading into the season, but by the time I was done with them, it sure felt like an exercise in self-flagellation. That’s a bit of […]
From South Side Sox | 8 days ago | 1 read
1959 He was acquired before the start of the 1958 season, and part of the cost was trading the popular Minnie Miñoso, so pitcher Early Wynn didn’t start out on the right side of things with a lot of Sox fans. Compounding the issue was a mediocre 1958 season. In 1959, however, Wynn turned back the clock, leading the major […]
From South Side Sox | 9 days ago | 1 read
It is the ninth year of Top Prospect voting at South Side Sox! First, let us review past years: To make sure we give the SSS readership a strong vote in our South Side Sox Top 100, we’re going to run five or 10 polls before kicking off our Top 100 Prospect countdown. Ideally, we […]
From South Side Sox | 9 days ago | 1 read
1947 After GM Les O’Connor refused to a pay a $500 fine for signing Chicago Christian high-schooler George Zoeterman, commissioner Happy Chandler suspended the White Sox from baseball. Ironically, when O’Connor was an assistant to the prior commissioner Kenesaw Landis, he helped draft the rule which allowed the White Sox to sign Zoeterman, who had […]
From South Side Sox | 10 days ago | 1 read
Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the MLB. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in White Sox fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys. This week, we tackle a thorny problem for the White Sox: Strengthening a weak roster, […]
From South Side Sox | 10 days ago | 1 read
1914 White Sox pitching star, executive and Comiskey-by-marriage Johnny Rigney was born in Oak Park. Rigney had a nondescript couple of years in the minors and 1937 majors debut before the talent-starved Sox thrust him into the starting rotation in 1938. There, he blossomed, with 4.6, 4.5, 6.7 WAR from 1938-40. Only seven pitchers in […]
From South Side Sox | 11 days ago | 1 read