Race To The Bottom: Diamondbacks Stand In The Way

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With the White Sox BASICALLY out of contention, every Monday and Thursday until the end of the regular season, we'll take a quick peek at where the White Sox stand in their 2016 MLB Draft position. The draft position is important for two reasons:

The first, very obvious reason is that the higher you pick, the better the talent pool you have to choose from. The second, slightly less obvious reason is that if the White Sox pick in the Top 10, they can sign free agents who are issued qualifying offers without forfeiting a first round draft pick.

We saw this work in the team's favor last season as they signed premium free agents Melky Cabrera and David Robertson and only had to sacrifice picks in the second and third rounds because their draft position was No. 8 overall.

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Race To The Bottom: Sweeping Away Top 10 Position

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With the White Sox BASICALLY out of contention, every Monday and Thursday until the end of the regular season, we'll take a quick peek at where the White Sox stand in their 2016 MLB Draft position.

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The Catbird Seat's 2015 MLB Season Predictions

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Sick of reading what other people think is going to happen this season?

Yes? Oh, well this is awkward...

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Every team in the AL sucks

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Heading into the 2015 regular season, it seems that most every American League team fancies themselves as a contender. As I’ve talked about earlier, this center-heavy distribution of talent should have interesting implications on the playoff race. This post is not about that. This post is me being a mean person who sees the flaws in everything. This post is about how every team in the American League will finish below .500, mathematical impossibilities be damned*.

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The Dayan dream deferred

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Trading Dayan Viciedo to the Mariners never made much sense, even in the thick of 2014. Viciedo was in the middle of a career-worst season, and was revealing himself to be a power-only right-handed clod, who would potentially play in a park that absorbs right-handed power and erases any trace of its existence.

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White Sox payroll/Dayan Viciedo check

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I look at the White Sox 2015 payroll and I have the same reaction as any fan: why can't my job find more for me in the budget, man? I work hard.

But the secondary reaction, after curses whispered through tears, is figuring there's still some room for some deals.

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Bad things are still happening: Important stuff from Friday's 13-3 loss to Seattle

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Boy, this is getting fun, isn't it?

Friday's 13-3 loss at the hands of the Seattle Mariners was yet another showing — the third in recent memory — in which the White Sox's pitching woes somehow managed to overshadow the offensive dry spell that is getting more and more pathetic by day.

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A pitcher's duel? A pitcher's duel! White Sox win a pitcher's duel

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Well look at that, after waiting until the last game in June to record their first shutout, the White Sox pitching staff has another in a week, taking the rubber match from the Seattle Mariners in a 1-0 surprise gift from Hector Noesi and the deservedly maligned bullpen.

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The Mariners might actually be happy to see Hector Noesi - Lineups & Preview 7/6

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While he has charmed many on the South Side for his surprisingly consistent mediocrity, for being a below-average consumer of innings on a pitching staff that was a phone call away from more Dylan Axelrod or Undead Tommy Hanson, Hector Noesi is relic of darker times in recent Mariners history. He was a hurricane of suck (6.31 ERA in 135 innings in Seattle) in the 2012 starting rotation, and an equally disastrous reminder of the Pineda-Montero trade in brief appearances in 2013 and 2014.

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Sox bullpen spoils brilliant Quintana outing, then takes really long time to finally lose

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For four innings, the White Sox wandered around not knowing they were dead. They trudged into the 14th inning despite the disastrous waste of Jose Quintana's 7.2 shutout innings and the grand fortune of a two-run outburst in the eighth inning against the best starter in the league, and that they were being blatantly outplayed and outhit nearly three-to-one by the Mariners.

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Fireworks for Sale on Fourth of July

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When Lloyd McClendon's lineup for Friday night's tilt between the White Sox and Mariners was posted about four hours before first pitch, one had to assume it would be a rough night for Seattle's offense.

Sending out six left-handed hitters against Chris Sale — who has been borderline untouchable against lefties this season — didn't seem the wisest strategy.

What one couldn't assume is how the White Sox's offense would fare against Seattle starter Roenis Elias.

Well, Sale was as dominant as expected and Jose Abreu & Co. provided the Fourth of July Fireworks show as the White Sox cruised to a 7-1 victory in the first of three games at U.S. Cellular Field.

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