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This Month in White Sox Minor League Baseball
This month: RHP Terry Doyle will be the lone White Sox representative at the Arizona Fall League's Rising Stars Game (live tonight on MLB Network at 7:10pm central). This game is essentially a showcase for the top talents in the AFL, as well the league's standout performers. Doyle, who just...
This Week in White Sox Minor League Baseball
This week: The Barons and the Voyagers are the only affiliates still playing. Birmingham is facing Mobile in their first round, best of five series, in which they are down 2-1. Great Falls is against Missoula in their first round, best of three series, which is currently tied 1-1. Trayce...
TWIWSMiLB: Addendum on Dylan Axelrod
As posited on Friday, more pitching reinforcements arrived today to bolster a potentially taxed bullpen. 26 year old RHP pitcher Dylan Axelrod is a former Padres farmhand who came to the White Sox in 2009 via the Windy City Thunderbolts of the independent Frontier League. In 150.2 IP between...
This Week In White Sox Minor League Baseball
This week: Today we got confirmation of the first round of September call-ups: SS Eduardo Escobar, RHP Addison Reed and RHP Shane Lindsay. A.J. Pierzynski also re-joins the club today. I went over Escobar and Reed last week but here's the quick and dirty about Lindsay: Shane Lindsay is a 26 year...
This Week In White Sox Minor League Baseball
This week: With September quickly approaching, we're coming to the end of the minor league baseball season and, for a select few players, the beginning of a major league cameo. September call-ups are an annual rite and let an organization (and its fans) see a few of the club's near-ready prospects...
This Week In White Sox Minor League Baseball
This week: After Phil Humber's injury, the White Sox again required the services of a pitcher from their minor leagues. And only one of those called up this season - Lucas Harrell - was on the 40 man roster at the start of the season. The rest of the call-ups - Jeff Gray, Jeffrey Marquez, Brian...
This Week In White Sox Minor League Baseball
This week: The White Sox first drafted Jordan Danks out of Texas high school in the 19th round of the 2005 draft. His talent/projection was of a player much better than that draft position; however, he had made it clear he was attending the University of Texas. The club next drafted him in the...
This Week in White Sox Minor League Baseball
This week: There's a lot of talk about Carlos Quentin being traded and there are plenty of White Sox fans who are in favor of such a move. One cited reason is that Dayan Viciedo can be slotted into right field and the White Sox won't lose much. Seemingly overlooked in this analysis is that...
This Week in White Sox Minor League Baseball
This week: The White Sox promoted 3B Juan Silverio to Winston-Salem. Silverio, many will recall, was well-hyped when he signed as a "16 year old" in 2007 for $600,000. Of course, we later learned that Silverio was part of the Dave Wilder bonus-skimming scandal and really only received a $300,000...
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