Chicago White Sox

By Teddy Ballgame I couldn’t make it to the desert to watch any Arizona Fall League action this year, which was very disappointing.  I’m a huge baseball fan, who enjoys seeing young talent more than anything, and then watching these players develop.  Last Fall I enjoyed getting a chance to see The Sporting Ne...

By Joe Cowley According to pitching coach Don Cooper, for the first time in his tenure, the club will have a pitching summit in January for a group of major and minor-league pitchers in the organization to come together in Chicago, making sure they are practicing what the club is preaching from their hu...

If White Sox fans made the judgment regarding Jim Thome's immediate baseball future, then the prolific slugger would be chasing 600 career home runs at U.S. Cellular Field 2010. Thome open to return to White Sox

Paul Konerko made the saying popular in the White Sox' clubhouse in 2008: "'F' feelings. It's about winning.''

For those in the Champaign-Urbana area, the local Kiwanis chapter is putting on a “Sports Trivia Championship” on Sunday, January 31 at the Hilton Garden Inn.  Some of the question topics:  Illini basketball and football, Cubs, Cardinals, White Sox, Chicago Bears. If you’re interested...

By Joe Cowley Team captain Paul Konerko made the saying popular in the White Sox clubhouse back in 2008: "F feelings, it's about winning.'' Not only has manager Ozzie Guillen made that his personal mantra, but wants his entire organization to eat and... Team captain Paul Konerko made the saying popular in...

By The Cheat A White Sox World Series Championship banner, signed by pitcher Mark Buehrle, is also being sold, as is a Blackhawks playoff banner signed by Denis Savard and Stan Mikita. The bidding starts at 12 p.m. Wednesday at Daley Center. Money raised goes to help the Chicago Anti-hunger Federation an...

By larry The Sleeper: While the White Sox are rarely big players on the international scene, they might have found something in 18-year-old Venezuelan catcher Miguel Gonzalez, who combines a good bat with power potential and impressive catch-and-throw skills.

White Sox; Royals lost, 5-0: A sellout Kauffman crowd saw no runs by the Royals's offense while Pierzynski and Scott Podsednik beat up on Greinke with three ... Win or lose Cy Young, Greinke wants to play for a winnerKansas City Star all 57 news articles »

By The Cheat Not much happens at the GM meetings. But this year those meetings are taking place in Chicago -- an unnamed hotel near O'hare, actually -- which means the local Chicago rags can afford to send their writers to cover the relative non-event. So we've got a lot to link to for a week after the World S...

By Chris De Luca When the Sox took Beckham in the first round of the 2008 draft, he was a shortstop. It's the position manager Ozzie Guillen insisted he would play all the way through spring training. But when a need arose at third base, Beckham made the switch. When Beckham debuted with the Sox in June, Ramirez...

By Joe Cowley Jermaine Dye isn't ruling anything out. After all, at 35 years old and 13-plus major league seasons under his belt, the about to be former White Sox outfielder has seen crazier things happen. "I mean first of all I could... Jermaine Dye isn't ruling anything out. Neither is Dye.

By The Cheat The moves leave the Sox with two obvious holes at Designated Hitter and a corner outfield spot. DH is unlikely to be filled anytime soon, as the Sox don't have much to spend and the bottom has fallen out of the defensively-challenged hitter market in recent years. It's likely that the Sox will...

By Joe Cowley The second baseman woke up a member of the White Sox, but by the time breakfast came to an end he was headed to Kansas City. The paper had Getz and disgruntled third baseman Josh Fields fitted for royal blue uniforms with the Sox getting 28-year-old Jack of all trades, master of none, Mark Teah...

By larry On this date four years ago, the White Sox won the World Series.  Where were you? JJ continues his player reviews with Jayson Nix.The always entertaining mailbag, this time from Scott Merkin.Continuing the Sprocle bender, there's a White Sox first round draft pick quiz. Other links:

And then there are Duncan's Cy Young Award winners: the White Sox' LaMarr Hoyt (24-10, 3.66 ERA in 1983), the Athletics' Bob Welch (27-6, 2.95 ERA in 1990) ... and more »

By Chris De Luca He wants to return to the White Sox, even if they are toying with the idea of using Scott Podsednik as part of a revolving door built to accommodate speed at designated hitter. And leaving the Sox meant getting another chance at a World Series ring before time runs out.

By larry 2. Tyler Flowers: 2009 MiLB line: .297/.423/.516 at Birmingham and Charlotte.  Going into the season, his major question mark was whether he would stick at catcher, both because of his (in)abilities and injury history.  He answered that question affirmatively by vastly improving his defen...

By Andrew Reilly Anyway, as much fun as it is to bemoan the less-than-stellar output of the $68 million, two-time All-Star* and fifth-best rookie** of 2004, can anyone really get too upset over that heinous 13-for-97 start to Rios’ Hall of Fame run on the South Side? Bizarre feelings of entitlement to the...

A.J. Pierzynski hit a game-ending RBI double in the 13th inning, Scott Podsednik had four hits and the Chicago White Sox beat the Oakland Athletics 4-3 on Wednesday night.

Even with Michael Young hurt, the Rangers have been staying in the playoff hunt. On Saturday afternoon, I was back for yet another appearance on the Alex Reimer Show on 1120 AM WBNW Boston, and this week the focus of the discussion centred on the playoff aspirations of the Boston Red Sox.

The brainchild of the WLUP disc jockey Dahl and White Sox owner Bill Veeck's son Mike, the idea was to have a death to disco movement between games of a Detroit Tigers-Sox doubleheader at Comiskey Park in 1979, but it quickly turned into what amounted to a mob scene, culminating in a bonfire...

Gordon Beckham will soon be arriving in Chicago — bad news for Josh Fields. He should already be owned in keeper leagues, but in redraft leagues, it’s almost time to pick up Gordon Beckham, promoted to Triple-A on Wednesday. No. 38 on our most recent top prospect list, Beckham is a player we ide...

For some reason, the White Sox have been pegged as headhunters during Ozzie Guillen's managerial regime. Maybe it stems from Guillen's outspoken nature in following the code of the game, meaning that if he perceives one of his players has been hit ...

By larry Stepping in to remedy this situation for White Sox fans is White Sox Outsider 2009 by Jim Margalus. Margalus is a long-time White Sox blogger at his site Sox Machine and is also well-known to SSS readers for posting here under the name of site.

By Andrew Reilly 6. The White Sox will not lead the AL in home runs, due largely to continued decline in output from both Jim Thome and Paul Konerko - although six Sox players will still hit over 20 home runs. 9. Alexei Ramirez puts up an MVP-caliber season.

By Dave Burns Happy Carlos Quentin Horrible Trade Anniversary! Yes, December 3rd marks one year since the D-Backs traded Quentin to the Chicago White Sox in exchange for Chris Carter. That one didn’t work out too well. Luckily the Dan Haren deal did. In fact, what a difference one year makes for the D-Back...

By Joe Cowley White Sox board chairman Jerry Reinsdorf spent the last two years doing what he could to get his team's spring training site moved from Tucson to what he felt was a more Chicago fan-friendly local in the Phoenix area, and on Tuesday it became official.

By Jim McLennan As part of the off-season coverage, I figured I could throw up the occasional baseball-related film review, as such things strayed across my eyeballs. We start with Eight Men Out, John Sayles' adaptation of the book by Eliot Asinof, of the almost same title [it opted for the numeric 8, rath...

By Andrew Reilly To revisit any of these moments is to at first say “man, that was awesome,” and then remember what actually happened right after that play or, more often than not, curse at what didn’t. There’s the great throw by Buehrle the ump said wasn’t in time (even though it was). There’s the catch JD made...

Game 2: Friday, Oct. 3 at 6 p.m. in Tampa Bay, Scott Kazmir vs Mark Buehrle Game 3: Sunday, Oct. 5 at TBA in Chicago, Matt Garza vs John Danks Game 4*: Monday, Oct. 6 at TBA in Chicago, TBA vs Gavin Floyd Game 5*: Wednesday, Oct. 8 at TBA in Tampa Bay, TBA vs TBA

By Chris De Salvo Saturday, September 27, 2008 These Sox Don’t Seem to Fit While it may be difficult to surmise the impact of the Sox’ third straight Metrodome loss last night, it’s certainly not the lasting impression most would deem worthy of post-season berth. ''I'm sick of [bleep]ing losing,'' A.J. Pierzynski said. ''It sucks, but we're still alive. Hopefully, we go home and win four games and we kick their ass on Tuesday.'' Yeah, Okay. While there is a part of me that agrees with the catcher’s rhetoric, there still had to be part of him that felt he was lying through his teeth. Sweeping the Indians (who, despite having no chance at making the playoffs, hate the White Sox just as much as the Twins) is far from a sure thing. Then again, that’s what we thought about eith...   [read the full post]

By Andrew Kneeland(noreply@blogger.com) While Chicago goes on to face Wild-Card leading Boston Red Sox, Minnesota has to deal with below-average Oakland. Sound easy? With Minnesota's track record against inferior teams, I would say that coming out with a split should be considered a positive thing.

By Chris De Salvo Tuesday, September 16, 2008 Ozzie: Kick'em While They're Down! Ozzie Guillen has called a lot of people a lot of names during his tenure as the White Sox' manager. This happens so often it goes largely unnoticed. It's often dismissed as par for the course, but a noticable aspect of what makes...

By Jeff Kallman This win plus the Minnesota Twins falling to Toronto in extra innings put the White Sox a game up in the AL Central. The number of 1-0 wins the Texas Rangers have had in fifteen seasons at the Ballpark at Arlington including Wednesday against the Seattle Mariners: 3.

By Christopher Michaels The offensive tone was set early in this game, when Jim Thome and AJ Pierzynski each came up with a rare hit with a runner in scoring position. The Sox entered the game with just 3 hits with RISP in their first 6 games against the Jays this season. By games end, the Sox had added 5 more, an offensive...

By larry hawaii winter baseball begins september 27. arizona fall league begins october 7. october 10(ish) for mexican pacific league. october 17(ish) for dominican winter league. october 11(ish) for venezuelan professional baseball league. and the puerto rican league is set to reappear this f...

Hosts Sam Panayotovich and Brandon Rosage packed the program with minute-by-minute analysis of reports related to Manny Ramirez‘ departure from Boston to Los Angeles, Ken Griffey Jr’s trade to the White Sox in light of Paul Konerko’s admission, the Angels’ early-week move for Mark Te...

By Chris Pennant Before the MLB season started this year, I was already excited to be a White Sox fan. No, the credit in this situation goes to the White Sox pitching staff and a little-known young man named Carlos Quentin. Parting shot: Anyone seen Joe Crede lately? Until next time, keep waving the Pennant.

The show also delves into the White Sox’ battle to get the Chicago press to leave their blow-up dolls alone, leading to a discussion about the unwritten rules of the MLB clubhouse. And the guys cover another gem from Ichiro, backtracking from a remark last year that he hates visiting Clevel...

By hosts@soxcast.com Episode: 126 - Angels and White Sox: Angelscast Drops By to Talk about the Past Week (November 26) - Soxcast 2007 Season Podcasts - Soxcast.com - Hosted By: George Heidkamp

By hosts@soxcast.com Episode: 112 - Just Shoot Me: The Never-Ending Nightmare of the '07 White Sox (August 31) - Soxcast 2007 Season Podcasts - Soxcast.com - Hosted By: George Heidkamp

By Leitch Last season the offense seemed pitiful despite some of the big bats in the lineup. Now, the acquisition of Nick Swisher and Orlando Cabrera plus Carlos Quentin and Alexei Ramirez means that we might not look as sad against lefties like C.C. Sabathia (who I've come to expect on opening day the w...

By Joey Matschulat Though the Chicago Cubs and San Diego Padres currently stand out as the stateside favorites to obtain Fukudome’s services, the Chicago White Sox and Texas Rangers remain in the hunt. All four teams reportedly submitted bids to Fukudome’s camp last week.

By Jim McLennan Meanwhile, the bidding for Japanese pitcher Hiroki Kuroda goes on. Initially, it seemed our chances had evaporated after reports that the Seattle Mariners were offering him a four-year, $44m contract, far in excess of the $27m for three years suggested as having been provided by Arizon...

By R.B. FALLSTROM AP Sports Writer ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Tony La Russa will return for his 13th season as manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, agreeing to a two-year contract after a difficult season in which his team failed to play .500 ball. "I'm real pleased it worked out," La Russa said at a news confe...

CHICAGO A.J. Pierzynski hit a single that hopped past Detroit shortstop Carlos Guillen, allowing the goahead run to score in the eighth inning Tuesday night, as the Chicago White Sox rallied for an 87 win over the Tigers to sweep a daynight doubleheader.

The Chicago White Sox lefthander faced the minimum 27 batters in a 60 victory over the Texas Rangers on Wednesday night, picking off the only runner he walked and throwing the first nohitter of the major league season.

Bobby Jenks is having a rocky spring and White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen is concerned about his struggling closer.

MINNEAPOLIS - Trust 'em, the Chicago White Sox know the feeling.A year ago, the White Sox had a 15-game lead in the American League Central, only to watch it dwindle to 1 1/2 games the final week, before hanging on and capturing the World Series.This time, it's the Detroit Tigers feeling the h...