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Our smallest batch of voters took time away from Thanksgiving and Black Friday to advance our longest player on the ballot so far as our No. 15-voted prospect. Slap-hitting, pesky infielder William Bergolla won decisively despite the small sample size, with 19 of 54 (41%) votes: It took the middle infielder 14 tries before advancing, […]
3 months ago | 2 reads
1957 While by WAR it was just the 11th-best season of his career, Warren Spahn was nearly a unanimous pick to win what would be the only Cy Young of his career, earning 15 of 16 votes in what was then an award given across MLB, not by league. The amazing southpaw led the majors […]
3 months ago | 6 reads
1938 White Sox pitcher Monty Stratton, an American League All-Star in 1937 and one of the best young players in the game, accidentally shot himself in the leg while hunting, when his .22 caliber pistol discharged as he was replacing it in his holster; he had failed to engage the safety. Unable to get help, Stratton crawled […]
4 months ago | 8 reads
There aren’t a whole lot of songs in the Thanksgiving holiday repertoire. Just about the only recent one, Adam Sandler’s “The Thanksgiving Song,” is already a nonsense spoof, so making a nonsense spoof of it is a tad redundant. Still, the probably best-known ditty of this holiday stems from a poem written by Lydia Marie […]
4 months ago | 5 reads
1961 The spitball, banned since 1920 in Major League Baseball, remained so after an 8-1 vote by baseball’s Rule Committee. The pitch came back up for question after commissioner Ford Frick advocated for its return, calling it easy to throw and not dangerous to hitters. While no White Sox pitchers were rumored to be throwing […]
4 months ago | 6 reads
The White Sox need to approach this year’s MLB Winter Meetings with one primary goal: diversifying their talent. Last year, Chicago focused on acquiring high-ceiling prospects and veterans who had strung together a couple of average seasons. While that was enough to get them through their first full rebuild year, the Sox now face a […]
4 months ago | 6 reads
The White Sox may not have earned any postseason honors in 2025, but that doesn’t mean some of their younger players left town empty-handed. MLB announced its 2025 pre-arbitration bonus pool distribution, and four of Chicago’s players received supplemental cash based on their contributions this past season. Dollar amounts are based on “Joint WAR,” a […]
4 months ago | 9 reads
It seems our debut with The Polling Studio was a success, with the added bonus of preventing duplicate votes, something Crowd Signal and Chorus before that did not do. So it is safer to say that the 108 votes last round came from 108 individual readers/voters. That is a good thing! Seeing the impressive advance […]
4 months ago | 6 reads
Wednesday night, four of us women from the South Side Sox staff had the chance to step inside a different kind of ballpark experience. It was built not on box scores or bullpen decisions, but on stories, representation, and the women helping push the sports world forward. The Chicago White Sox hosted the latest installment […]
4 months ago | 8 reads
Our polling saga continues, so for the time being we are testing a new polling application, The Poll Studio. If it doesn’t work out, we’ll be running this exact poll again via our prior polling program, or something else entirely. Thank you for your patience. Grant Umberger, in just his second time on the ballot, […]
4 months ago | 1 read
1946 Two near-teammates on the White Sox in the 1970s, Cy Acosta and Rich McKinney, were born. McKinney, born in Piqua, Ohio, was chosen No. 14 overall by the White Sox in 1968 and made the majors in 1970. He played third, short, second and right field in a brief, two-season career on the South […]
4 months ago | 7 reads
When the famed first Elvis Presley Christmas Album came out in October 1957, White Sox fans already had plenty to cheer about. The team had just finished its seventh straight winning season, part of a streak that would continue for another decade. The 90-win total wasn’t enough to challenge the dreaded Yankees, but the Sox […]
4 months ago | 5 reads
Leave it to the White Sox to make unexpected and underwhelming moves during the offseason. After electing to not protect several Top 30 prospects from the Rule 5 draft, Chicago doubled down on their surprises Friday by signing outfielder Derek Hill but non-tendering outfielder Mike Tauchman, first baseman Tim Elko, and southpaw reliever Cam Booser. […]
4 months ago | 6 reads
We had a little trouble with poll production recently, with Brett and I both shut out of our polling program, but we are back in action thanks to colleague Melissa Sage-Bollenbach — apparently now the SSS Mistress of Polls. Thanks, Melissa! Ironically, this round was over fairly quick, with Jeral Perez storming out early and […]
4 months ago | 2 reads
1893 Ban Johnson is given control of the reorganized Western League, being named its president, secretary and treasurer. While a minor league in this moment, the WL would transform into the American League by 1900 and ascend to major league status in 1901. A year later, Charles Comiskey left the major league Cincinnati Redlegs to […]
4 months ago | 3 reads
Here is a shocker: White Sox general manager Chris Getz has a solid offseason plan. I never thought I would see the day. I was stunned reading Getz, during last week’s GM meetings, outlining the positions he would like to address before Opening Day. Getz is going to focus on adding starting pitching, some bullpen […]
4 months ago | 7 reads
1869 Clark Griffith was born, in Clear Creek, Mo. While his 63.8 WAR career was built mostly in the 1890s as a pitcher for the Chicago Colts (Cubs), Griffith was a key member of the first MLB pennant-winning White Sox team, in 1901. For that season, Griffith joined scores of National League players who jumped […]
4 months ago | 3 reads
The 2025 Arizona Fall League was a showcase for the Chicago White Sox, thanks to a trio of prospects who arrived in the desert with very different expectations. Hagen Smith, the lefty with a first-round pedigree, was already a headline name. Outfielder Braden Montgomery, armed with immense talent but fresh off recovering from a broken […]
4 months ago | 3 reads
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4 months ago | 2 reads
1900 At the American League owner’s meetings at the Grand Pacific Hotel in Chicago, AL president Ban Johnson announces that the league will reject the National Agreement (the truce that governs baseball), paving the way and forecasting the decision that the AL will become a major league and compete directly with the National League. Shortly […]
4 months ago | 3 reads
Well, Chicago’s bare-bones Rule 5 protection moves from earlier in the day make a lot of sense given the reports regarding their involvement in several trades late this afternoon. The wheels were turning in their front office, sending off two relievers and a minor-league catcher for a pitcher and two position players. According to Bob […]
4 months ago | 2 reads
MLB’s annual roster-protection deadline has now come and gone, and the Chicago White Sox made a light set of moves as they prepare for the Rule 5 Draft on December 10. Thirty-two players in the organization were eligible for selection this year, including seven members of the club’s Top 30 prospects: RHP Tanner McDougal (No. […]
4 months ago | 3 reads
1958 The bloc of minority owners in Cleveland, including Hank Greenberg, sell their shares to majority (34%) owner William Daley. The sale clears the way for Greenberg to join Bill Veeck in his purchase of the White Sox mere weeks later. 1976 It was a minor swap, but one the White Sox still lost. Seeking […]
4 months ago | 1 read
It’s time for the White Sox to confront their second-hardest decision this offseason. After picking up Luis Robert Jr.’s $20 million option, Chicago must decide which Rule 5 draft-eligible players it wants to protect from being poached at the Winter Meetings. The Sox currently have five open spots on their 40-man roster, but not all […]
4 months ago | 2 reads
1944 Tom Seaver, who was brilliant pitching for the White Sox at the autumn of his career was born, in Fresno, Calif. The future Hall-of-Famer came (reluctantly) to the White Sox before the 1984 season, as GM Roland Hemond noticed that Tom Terrific was left unprotected by the New York Mets and used a free […]
4 months ago | 4 reads