Thursday night the White Sox announced the signing of thirty year old relief pitcher Ronald Belisario. Belisario has spent his whole career in Los Angeles with the Dodgers and posted a 3.97 ERA in 68 innings last year. Belisario is know for his fastball as it routinely touches 94 mph, but the question with Belisario is whether or not he can locate his pitches in 2014. If not, Belisario can be another Ramon ...

Monday, Rick Hahn and the White Sox settled with catcher Tyler Flowers on a 1 year/$950,000 deal. The deal seems to facilitate yet another year of debate between Flowers and prospect Josh Phegley. Flowers was anointed to be the catcher of the future when he was acquired by the Sox from the Atlanta Braves in the Javier Vazquez deal. Phegley was brought up this year as Flowers was struggling. Phegley was raki ...

With the season ending almost a week ago, I can tell you that no fan on the South Side of Chicago was happy with the way the Pale Hose season went. 2013 saw great pitching, some young players show their high potential, and Chris Sale continue to dominate and bud into a star. However, the team's hitting and defense was among the worst in the league, and still on his first contract, Robin Ventura, may be on t ...

After two bad seasons in Miami, Marlins' owner Jeffrey Loria relieved Larry Beinfest of his duties. The Marlins had high hopes in 2011, but after a slow start the Marlins traded away starter Anibal Sanchez to the Detroit Tigers and shortstop Hanley Ramirez to the Los Angeles Dodgers. After a 93 loss 2012, the Marlins then traded Heath Bell, Jose Reyes, Mark Buehrle, Josh Johnson, Emilio Bonifacio, and John ...

Given the performance of the team’s play on the field in 2013, rookie General Manager Rick Hahn was forced to trade away players and shed salary. With the departure of starter Jake Peavy, right fielder Alex Rios, and relief pitchers Jesse Crain, and Matt Thronton, the White Sox were able to shed salary down to $48.6M in 2014, before arbitration, buy outs, free agent signings, and trades. The question remain ...

Last week, I received an email from a friend who wanted to know what I thought of the Peavy deal: “I'm trying to figure out if the Peavy deal was fair, or if we just (screwed up) by giving him away for a bunch of guys with unproven potential.” As I began to type out an answer, I kept stopping as I thought of more and more variables that played into this particular situation. Eventually, I just wrote back “T ...

The White Sox have made the first move since dealing Matt Thornton to the Red Sox by trading stud reliever, Jesse Crain, to the Rays for a player to be named later and cash considerations. Jesse Crain was about two days away from being activated from the disabled list and beginning a throwing program. He will continue his rehab in Florida. As for the move itself, White Sox fans will not get what they were h ...

  (Photo Credit: Associated Press) The Detroit Tigers (50-41) always bring the worst out in any Chicago fan--so it's no surprise that there was a bench-clearing incident in today’s White Sox (36-53) series finale in Detroit. But we’ll get to that. The series overall has been fun to watch—arguably the most fun a White Sox fan has had in a long time. With the last place Southsiders pulling a series win f ...

    After snapping a brutal losing streak and dodging a four-game-sweep in Houston, the White Sox (29-38) will head up north to take on the Minnesota Twins (30-36). Both teams have struggled in recent times—the Sox losing 14 of 18 games, and the Twins dropping 7 of 11—and currently sit at the bottom of the AL Central ladder. Detroit sits securely at the top, with Kansas City and Cleveland neck-and ...

Photo: Photo by Jason Miller/Getty Images Pushing through June, the White Sox find themselves last place in the AL Central. You don’t need to be an ESPN sports analyst to see that this is a struggling team who gives fans little reason to believe these days. This season’s been tough to watch for Sox fans, but the fight isn’t over yet. With Detroit a good step ahead of the league, the other four teams current ...