Catching up with the Cast-Offs

In just under two months of play this season, the White Sox have already been forced to shuffle the roster quite a bit due to both injuries and poor performance.  There have been 19 different pitchers and one position player that have pitched for the team.  Waiver claim Moises Sierra has even made 11 starts in the outfield due to injury.  There are a few guys that have been demoted due to performance who will still be with the team and they each have had a little time to show improvement or decline.  Who is taking advantage of this time to get their season straightened out and who hasn't?

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Save Us, Chris Sale - Game Preview & Lineups 4/17

A day after the atrocity that is the White Sox bullpen used up every last pitch in its arsenal in a 6-4, 14-inning loss to the Red Sox, Chris Sale takes the mound in hopes of avoiding the shenanigans that led to that embarrassing conclusion.

Leury Garcia is starting at second base and will likely be unavailable in relief for tonight's 7:10 rubber match against Jon Lester and the Boston Red Sox, but one can rightly assume Daniel Webb, fresh off of a gutsy, 59-pitch performance as the only actual arm left in the bullpen, won't be.

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Free Passes Give Free Win to Red Sox

Over 5 hours of walks, occasional run scoring, and a position player pitching ultimately resulted in the White Sox dropping a 14-inning affair by the score of 6-4 to the Red Sox. Pitching started out surprisingly effective before winding up familiarly awful, and a barrage of walks was too much to overcome as the series evens up at a game a piece.

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Week In Review: What We've Learned After 13 Games

Alexei Ramirez punctuated an up-and-down second week of the season for the White Sox with his two-run, walk-off home run on Sunday against the Cleveland Indians. The victory gave the White Sox a 4-3 record for the week and raised their record against the American League Central to 6-4 at this very early point in the season, and the 3-1 series win over the Indians helped them exorcise some of the demons that haunted them after going 2-17 against the Tribe a year ago.

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