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Somehow, despite at last check this was a Spring Training game, the White Sox were held to one hit, a Brooks Baldwin single, through seven innings. But then, given the state of Chicago pitching tonight, the lack of offense wasn’t the major concern, just an embarrassing one. The game opened with three straight doubles cracked […]
6 days ago | 4 reads
For you night owls in the readership, today’s game is for you: The first night game of 2026. For you aspiring broadcast consumers in the readership, however, this game is not at all for you, with no options beyond play-by-play on Gameday to follow the action. Yes, it’s unlikely you’re going to stay up until […]
7 days ago | 4 reads
The White Sox are back to work at Spring Training, which means it’s time to overreact and make season predictions based on limited data. It’s fun to be optimistic and bold when there’s nothing to lose, and everyone’s just happy the sun is out after 6:00 p.m. Even if you don’t believe these will happen, […]
7 days ago | 3 reads
1907 The White Sox departed Chicago on the Sunset Limited train, en route to Mexico City for spring training — the first-ever Spring Training held outside of the United States. The traveling party for the defending World Series Champions consisted of 49 people, with five others (including Nick Altrock) picked up at stops along the […]
7 days ago | 2 reads
For the 2026 Chicago White Sox, the arrival of Opening Day isn’t just a celebration of a new season; it’s also a deadline for a game of “Roster Tetris.” With a front office focused on a deep rebuild, the team finds itself with a critical mass of “bubble players.” Guys who are talented enough to […]
8 days ago | 1 read
We’re past the “pitchers and catchers reporting” glow. The early box scores are rolling in, and the results have been somewhat hopeful. The roster picture is… forming-ish. And while the front office has made its share of moves, we all know this thing is far from finished. So if you were sitting in the chair […]
8 days ago | 2 reads
1921 In the wake of the Black Sox, fortunes were going to turn hard against the fortunes of the South Siders — but don’t blame future Hall-of-Famer Harry Hooper. Charles Comiskey attempted to rebuild his team, making the acquisition of Hooper from the Red Sox as a cornerstone move. The trade didn’t prevent the three-decade fall to come, […]
8 days ago | 4 reads
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. Sure, it’s only Spring Training, but the White Sox got out of the box pretty […]
8 days ago | 5 reads
If this were the regular season, back-to-back one-run losses might sting a little more. Thankfully, it’s not — and Chicago’s 4-3 loss to the San Diego Padres doesn’t carry much weight beyond the box score. Since it is Spring Training, let’s focus on the positives for now. The South Siders outhit the Padres, 9-8, struck […]
9 days ago | 2 reads
After a late loss yesterday to San Francisco, lefty Sean Newcomb makes his second White Sox start since signing a one-year deal in December, looking to carry over the momentum he built in the Athletics’ bullpen in 2025. Newcomb primarily began his professional career as a starter before shifting into the bullpen for 32 games […]
9 days ago | 2 reads
1995 Spring Training got underway with a 4-3 win over the Kansas City Royals, in 10 innings. But there was something different about this opener. Perhaps it was the fact it was a game played with scabs “replacement players,” on both sides. With a lockout in full force after a failed offseason of labor negotiations, […]
9 days ago | 4 reads
The Arizona sun was blazing, Giants fans were howling (it was so obnoxious on the live stream), and the White Sox? Well, tally up another one-run loss. Despite 101 mph on the gun, a bomb by Luisangel Acuña, and Miguel Vargas flashing leather, none of it mattered. The Sox couldn’t hold on late and dropped […]
10 days ago | 2 reads
The South Side swagger is alive and well, rolling into Camelback Ranch with a vengeance. Yesterday’s 5-1 beatdown of the Cubs was just what Sox fans needed with four bombs, a little catharsis, and a reminder that the Good Guys can still mash when the mood strikes. Now, Chicago gets to take their swings against […]
10 days ago | 3 reads
I really hate to keep beating the same drum, but I’m going to continue to be on the record as believing that the make-or-break aspect of the next would-be competitive era of White Sox baseball — the aspect that Rick Hahn and friends utterly failed at from 2017-19 — is going to be whether they […]
10 days ago | 1 read
1901 Billy Sullivan of the National League’s Boston Beaneaters jumped to the upstart AL and the White Sox, where he would end up catching for 13 seasons. With a 63 career OPS+, Sullivan was considered a glove-first leader on the field. He was always among the AL leaders in fielding and had the best throwing […]
10 days ago | 3 reads
For the second game in a row, it only took two batters for the White Sox to score via the long ball. This time it was Edgar Quero’s turn. Alex Bregman returned the honor off Anthony Kay in the bottom of the first. Both of the first-inning homers were kind of cheap, not getting to […]
11 days ago | 3 reads
Do you think players trying to make the team or holdovers trying to keep their jobs care as much that the opponent is the Cubs as fans do? They probably have other things on their minds, but thumping That Other Team in Town back in the first Cactus League game was sure fun for us. […]
11 days ago | 1 read
1901 In a monumental move as the White Sox entered the major leagues for the first time, the club snatched pitcher Clark Griffith from the crosstown Orphans (Cubs). Griffith was signed as both pitching ace and manager. In 1901, Griffith not only was the team MVP (7.4 WAR, and fourth in the AL) but guided […]
11 days ago | 2 reads
With most of the expected big hitters out of the lineup after yesterday’s split-squad games, some other sources made Tanner Bibee’s first inning of the spring a miserable one. For him. No. 2 hitter Sam Antonacci started things off for the White Sox when he got a 2-0 cutter that had too much of the […]
12 days ago | 3 reads
It’s a tense battle of division rivals today as the White Sox make the long trek to famed Goodyear, Ariz., apt home for the Guardians since Cleveland is only a José Ramírez homer from the base of Goodyear in Akron. Well, OK, it’s not really a tense battle, it’s as meaningless as all spring games, […]
12 days ago | 3 reads
1929 The White Sox traded star left fielder Bibb Falk to Cleveland for catcher Martin Autry — the first direct trade ever between Chicago and Cleveland. The logic of the deal is somewhat confounding, because while Falk was at the tail end of his career, Autry was simply awful for the White Sox: -0.8 WAR […]
12 days ago | 2 reads
The White Sox gave us two games today, with the 100 or so players eligible for the games today split in half. Given that Gameday and radio was the best we could tune into for two simultaneous games, let’s just bullet-point some game performances, and let our game polls tell the rest of the story. […]
13 days ago | 2 reads
The White Sox have three split-squad game days this spring, including the Prospect Breakout game vs. the Dodgers. And, lucky you, today is the first! There no Munetaka Murakami today for the Sox — or for any time in the near future, as he has departed to join Team Japan in the World Baseball Classic. […]
13 days ago | 3 reads
1973 Coming off of his 1972 MVP season, Dick Allen signs a three-year, $750,000 contract with the White Sox, making him the highest-paid player in baseball. While contract details for early baseball are sketchy, this is believed to be the first time a White Sox player has been the highest-paid in the game. Oakland owner […]
13 days ago | 3 reads
First things first: Munetaka Murakami is just fine. Skipper Will Venable originally had the slugger penciled in the starting lineup, but he scratched him before first pitch. That is never a sight you want to see in late February. But crisis averted. Deep breaths all around. And while we’re here, best of luck to Mune […]
14 days ago | 4 reads