While Rick Hahn has made it clear he's not eager to part with shortstop Alexei Ramirez, speculation persist, as recently the Los Angeles Dodgers joined the New York Yankees and New York Mets as a team rumored to have interest in acquiring the shortstop who has been a stalwart for the Sox for the last seven seasons.
Read MoreRick Hahn took his first step toward turning the flaming bag of crap that was the 2014 White Sox bullpen into something ... well, less crappy, as the team reportedly agreed to terms with left-hander Zach Duke on Tuesday.
Read MoreLast offseason, Rick Hahn made a decision that made a lot of sense, even if the results didn't pan out on the field.
Lost in the mix of signing Jose Abreu to a monster deal and making crafty trades for Adam Eaton and Matt Davidson was Hahn's decision to rebuild ... sorry, RESHUFFLE ... the White Sox's bullpen with a series of cheap, low-risk signings.
Read MoreIt's the best time possible for tossing out roster ideas and seeing if they make sense, and that's what Nick Schaefer, Collin Whitchurch and James Fegan gathered to do, but James mostly crushes everyone's ideas with anxiety.
Read MorePaul Konerko has only officially been the team captain since 2006, but has been dominating the locker room in non-dominant fashion for at least a year longer. His demure and honest post-game interviews, ceaseless personal accountability, slavish devotion to routine and labor, and perhaps most memorably, public self-flagellation have been such steady elements of White Sox culture, that part of processing his retirement has been imagining a non-Konerko leadership. Compared to the Konerkocracy, every clubhouse seems like Brohio. Should we go to Brohio? It's the question of a generation.
Read MoreWhile working on Monday's post looking at the status of some of the White Sox's top prospects, I got to thinking about about last winter's trade that sent closer Addison Reed to the Arizona Diamondbacks for prospect Matt Davidson.
Read MoreThe moment it happened I knew it was coming. It shouldn't be worth addressing and, yet, it is.
Read MoreEven as someone who takes sardonic glee in seeing super-protected, nine-figure (at the least) organizations with elastic profits getting the occasional bit egg on the face, I am going to go out on a limb and say it's just wrong to steal proprietary data from a major league franchise. The Astros having their Ground Control system hacked is maybe the 97th most immoral act I read about on Monday, and maybe it's proprietary data about a silly game, but it's their proprietary data and they paid for it. Imagine that if instead of proprietary data, it was donuts, and imagine that instead of being the Astros' donuts, they were your donuts that were stolen. Yeah, not so funny now, you sad, donut-less schlub.
Read MoreThere you have it.
After months of speculation, the White Sox have their next top prospect, someone they hope will be able to join the big league rotation within the next year or two in North Carolina State left-hander Carlos Rodon.
Read MoreBelieve it or not, there's more to be discussed regarding the upcoming MLB Draft as we wind down to one day until the White Sox make their selection at No. 3 overall.
Read MoreOur intensely regional nightmare may soon be at an end. After a short but positive bullpen session held Tuesday, the White Sox are in the process of pegging a return date for Chris Sale. An imminent one.
Read MoreIn a bit of surprising news Wednesday morning, the White Sox activated infielder Jeff Keppinger from the disabled list and promptly designated him for assignment.
Read MoreWith the month of Abreu — sorry, the month of April — officially in the books, James Fegan, Collin Whitchurch, Nick Schaefer, Matt Adams and Rob Flot sat down and discussed what we've seen out of the White Sox so far. Among the topics we broached were Jose Abreu, the pitching staff, Adam Dunn, Alexei Ramirez, trades and attendance. Feel free to join in on the conversation in the comments below.
Read MoreThe White Sox have rather brilliantly managed expectations this season. They're a game below .500, their biggest development project of the season didn't survive the first road trip of the year, and their brawny offense also means that a large portion of their losses are of the bullpen meltdown/groinkick variety. And yet, they're regularly, and rightly identified as exciting.
Read MoreAmong the many issues that played a role in the White Sox's 63-99 record in 2013, the team's walk rate wasn't one that came as too much of a surprise. While most of the league has come to realize and appreciate the value of players with high on-base skills, the White Sox have lagged behind.
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