The White Sox just called up Bryan Ramos, even though he’s hitting .182 in Birmingham. Very White Soxy thing to do. Not in the lineup, though. | David Durochik/MLB Photos via Getty Images Will anybody score? With two of the worst offenses in MLB and two pitchers with ERAs of less than three, the over/under on this game may be 1.5. But, baseball gods being the jokers they are, it could end up 10-8. Erick Fedde will toss for the White Sox, facing old buddy Lance Lynn, who seems to have found the Fountain of Youth by returning to the team that drafted him in 2008. The 36-year old Lynn has an ERA ..read more

But first, a Pop Tart break As SSS duty geezer Leigh Allan and his son and west coast correspondent, Will, took to the microphones on May 3, the White Sox were 6-25, on pace for a modern-era, MLB-record 131 losses. So, naturally, we took a moment at the onset to shamelessly plug the Jerry Seinfeld movie Unfrosted, because Will is in it (both face and handwriting) and it opens on Netflix on that very day. The movie is more or less about the origin of Pop Tarts, which is a much more tasty subject than the White Sox, no matter how you feel about breakfast foods that fit in a toaster. But, unfort ..read more

Ryan Galanie went deep and had a five-RBI night for the Cannon Ballers. | S. R. Silver / South Side Sox The Knights get shut out ... but the Barons win in extras, while the A-ball clubs flash big offensive production Memphis Redbirds 5, Charlotte Knights 0 (Gameday Box) (Statcast Box) For the second straight game, Charlotte’s offense floundered and their pitching staff allowed five runs. Despite failing to crack the run column in this one, however, the Knights did collect six knocks in the loss; catcher Adam Hackenberg, batting cleanup, produced two of Charlotte’s six. The lone extra base hit ..read more

Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images Just a placemarker gamethread tonight, presumably usual broadcast suspects ..read more

Chrystal and Taylor chat about the upcoming series Friend of the pod Taylor Streiff of Redbird Rants joins again to chat about the Cardinals ahead of the series against the White Sox. St. Louis made a lot of moves during the offseason, especially on the pitching side, resulting in an outstanding pitching rotation and bullpen. You thought the Royals-to-White Sox pipeline was bad? Just wait! We spent a lot of time chatting about the connections between the Sox and the Cards, with the likes of Lance Lynn, Tommy Pham, Dominic Leone, and many more. Here’s what we talked about in this episode: Wha ..read more

On this day 106 years ago, Buck Weaver slapped a record-tying five singles in a romp at Detroit. Buck Weaver leads an assault on Detroit pitching 1918 The White Sox set their record for biggest win in team history, trouncing the Tigers by 16 runs, 19-3. With a 6-0 lead in the second inning, the visitors put the game away early. The club also set their record for most hits in a game, with 25. Buck Weaver paced the Pale Hose with a 5-for-7 day, all singles; Weaver tied the team record for most hits in a game, which has since been broken with six hits but on just five occasions since. In fact, ju ..read more

Terrell Tatum sparked the Barons in Thursday’s win. | S. R. Silver / South Side Sox The Barons simply cannot be stopped, as the farm goes 3-for-4 today Memphis Redbirds 5, Charlotte Knights 1 (Gameday Box) (Statcast Box) The lone tally for the Knights went a LONG way in this one. Colson CRUSHED IT Colson Montgomery goes YARD in the 5th! pic.twitter.com/7OhBJyDEmn — Charlotte Knights (@KnightsBaseball) May 3, 2024 Colson’s fourth longball of this young season was recorded at 113.8 mph off the bat. Chicago’s top prospect is showing signs of acclimating to Triple-A pitching lately despite hav ..read more

Joe Resis joins Brett Ballantini to discuss our first round of monthly bests: Danny Mendick, Drew Thorpe, Eric Adler and Aldrin Batista April is over, so it’s time for us to award, and talk about, our South Side Sox MiLB Players of the Month at each level. Joe Resis, writer of our story and deciding vote on the awards, occupies the expert’s chair as we summarize the April notables: An overview of the four affiliates, playing around .500 ball collectively and with one club (Birmingham) already pointed toward the postseason We spontaneously determined that 60 at-bats is enough to earn this awa ..read more

This is not trying to capitalize on excitement about the Bears. We would never do such a thing. We are professionals. | Michael Reaves/Getty Images In which we talk about Caleb Williams On May 9, 2016, the White Sox beat the Rangers to improve their record to 23-10. A season that we went into without a lot of optimism seemed like it might be turning into a pleasant surprise. At 13 games up, you could arguably go .500 the rest of the way and make the playoffs. That didn’t happen. The season fell apart, almost immediately. By the end of June the White Sox were worse than .500, and a tentative, s ..read more

Joe Resis joins Brett Ballantini to discuss the first month of High-A baseball, where the pitching has set the pace A month in, it’s our first Winston-Salem Dash podcast, and Joe Resis occupies the expert’s chair as we summarize the April notables: An introduction for Joe, taking on a bigger minors role than ever for South Side Sox Noah Schultz: Please with his first month, or no? A review of Dash Players of the Week on the pitching side, Juan Carela and Manuel Veloz Everyone’s favorite LHS Wildcat, Riley Gowens A closer already promoted to Birmingham, Eric Adler Glue guy José Ramírez The Da ..read more