TCS Morning 5: Mostly stuff about Austin Jackson
/1. We went over a good chunk of why the signing of Austin Jackson is important in Sunday’s post, but it’s worth talking about in more detail.
Read MoreIn Case of Emergency Break Glass: A Look at the White Sox Depth
/Injuries always play a role in determining the success or failure of a team in a given season. Even a team like the White Sox that has a solid history of keeping their players healthy is affected in one way or another by players lost to injury.
Read MoreThe Catbird Speaks 2.23.16 The Jimmy Rollins signing is very NSFW
/Kanye West recently released an album that could be described even by his own most devoted fans as a willful mess. At turns profound and serene but also shockingly base and crude, its discordance reflects an artist who is both dealing with significant transition in his life but also just naturally two minds about nearly everything.
Read MoreYour 2016 White Sox Spring Training Primer
/It's finally here. Well, kind of.
White Sox pitchers and catchers officially report to Spring Training in Glendale, Ariz., Thursday, and an offseason that seemed to last three lifetimes officially comes to a close.
Read MoreTCS Morning 5: The Rockies send the world into a tizzy
/The stagnant outfield free agent market really needed something to give it a kick. Someone or something wild enough to just run up and do something that would alter the calculus of the whole market. Someone like...
Read MoreThe New Prospect Rankings Are Here!
/We take a break from your regularly scheduled free agent outfield rumors, because the new phone books are here! Tim Anderson is somebody!
Read MoreTCS Morning 5: Red-hot Hector Sanchez news
/Heyman reaffirming that the White Sox are still in on Todd Frazier talks was probably the most juicy Monday news update, but since I already used it for yesterday's morning update....
...it's Hector Sanchez's day!
Read MoreTCS Morning 5: Signs of actual free agency
/After the curious departure of their GM, a disappointing 2015 that included a deadline sell-off, the Tigers are somehow still being the Tigers of the past five seasons: they're effing going for it. Jon Heyman reported they reached a deal with right-hander Jordan Zimmermann in the neighborhood of five years and roughly $110 million.
Read MoreTCS Morning 5: The White Sox have made a good bench coach hire
/In perhaps two of the most telegraphed and pre-reported White Sox stories in a while, Rick Renteria and Greg Sparks' additions to the Sox major league coaching staff were officially announced Tuesday.
Read MoreThe Catbird Speaks 6.12.15 - So this was a pretty lame draft?
/Mauricio Rubio from Baseball Prospectus joins James to talk prospects, specifically what few the Sox brought into their organization during the 2015 Draft.
Read MoreWhite Sox Day 2 Draft Musings
/After grabbing Vanderbilt RHP Carson Fulmer at No. 8 in Monday's first round, the White Sox had to wait all the way until No. 112 to make their next pick, thanks to the signings of David Robertson and Melky Cabrera that forced them to forfeit their picks in rounds 2 and 3.
Read MoreWhite Sox draft Carson Fullmer with No. 8 pick
/Personally, my optimism for this pick has been skyrocketing ever since I realized this is not the 35-year-old quarterback with multiple ACL tears.
Read More2015 MLB Draft: One last look before the speculation ends
/The thing about projecting the MLB Draft, which begins with the first two rounds tonight, is that, like most drafts, it's a fool's practice. As Ben Lindbergh noted on Grantland last week, nobody gets anything right. Even Kevin Goldstein, for years one of the top prospect minds in the game who now works for the Houston Astros, only got 18 picks right over a six year period, and in 2010 only got the No. 1 overall pick correctly before whiffing on every other pick, as noted in Lindbergh's piece.
Read MoreWhite Sox Draft Ruminations
/There is a certain futility to speculating about the MLB draft. For one thing, baseball prospects, unlike those in the NBA or NFL, for example, are so many years away from ever making it to MLB - if they ever do at all. Then you have to factor in for years - like this one - where there isn't a clear cut Top 2 or Top 3 or Top 4 and chaos reigns. As opposed to say, last year, where there was a pretty clear Top 3 and the only question was their sequence. Then you have to take into account the different valuations that different organizations place on tools, present baseball skill, cost, positions of need, etc. etc. And, what's more, it's not like teams necessarily have anything to gain from telegraphing the players they're interested in - and you could argue it is quite the opposite. Still, while forecasting specific players may be quixotic, there are still inferences you can draw from a team's general draft philosophy.
Read More2015 MLB Draft: Another college arm for the White Sox?
/We're less than three weeks away from the 2015 MLB Draft and the picture is becoming a bit more clear in regards to who the White Sox could be targeting with the No. 8 pick in the first round.
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