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• Rays 7, White Sox 8: Windy City Woes

Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports Rays lose to league-worst White Sox... again. On a cold and windy night in Chicago, the Tampa Bay Rays lost to the worst team in Major League Baseball for a second consecutive night. If you though Friday night might have been rock bottom for a team that is currently being held together by bubble gum and scotch tape, you were wrong. The day started off wi...2024
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• White Sox 8, Rays 7 (10 innings): The Andrew Benintendi Game

Just one of TWO homers tonight for Andrew Benintendi! | Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images Back-to-back wins for the Pale Hose The White Sox did the unthinkable tonight — they pulled off another win, making it two in a row for the first time this season. Despite what happens tomorrow, they also won the series against the Rays. Am I the lucky charm? I’ve got three wins under my coverage belt. All...2024
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• White Sox 9, Rays 4: The Martín Maldonado Game

Martín Maldonado’s huge home run. | Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images Did Tommy Pham’s arrival fix him? I don’t mean to alarm you, but the White Sox have won their fourth game, this time at home and against the Rays. Chris Flexen looked great on the mound tonight and the offense finally decided to help its pitcher. Right off the bat, pun not intended, Nicky Lopez and Tommy Pham started the hit...2024
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• Twins offer game, White Sox politely refuse to take it, lose 6-3

Who knew Rembrandt was a White Sox fan? | National Gallery of Art Join countless small animals as road kill Yeah, yeah, yeah, another game, another loss, 0-7 road trip, 3-22 season, yadda yadda yadda. But let’s try to forget all that and admire some actually good White Sox defense. First, there was a brilliant grab by Nicky Lopez with two on in the bottom of the first that would have bee...2024
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• Twins 7, White Sox 0: More of the same

Hitting machine: Danny Mendick collected a pair of hits in his first MLB game of 2024. | David Durochik/Diamond Images via Getty Images The South Siders got shut out for the eighth time. At least Danny Mendick made a good return to the majors In the opener of this four-game series in Minneapolis, the White Sox (3-19) fell behind early and could not catch the Twins (8-13). Ultimately, Minn...2024
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• Gamethread: White Sox at Phillies

Nick Nastrini in his debut outing against the Kansas City Royals. | Patrick Gorski-USA TODAY Sports Nick Nastrini is on the mound, so this one might actually be fun to watch Happy Sunday, as I look to get my first Sunday win of the season and spring training so far this year. At 3-17, the Chicago White Sox hold the worst record in the league and look to avoid another sweep this afternoon....2024
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• Rays 7, White Sox 8: Windy City Woes
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• White Sox Minor League Update: April 20, 2024

Jairo Iriarte is a bad, bad man. | Salina Rae Silver/South Side Sox Jairo Iriarte continues his scoreless season, while weather messes with a couple of games Syracuse Mets 11, Charlotte Knights 6 (10 innings) (Gameday box) (Statcast box)The good news is that the Knights put up a crooked number, 6, in the fifth inning. The bad? Well, that was all the scoring for Charlotte. And on a night w...2024
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• A Game of Groans

Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images Much like the smash hit TV series about a quest for power, the 8th season of the White Sox rebuild is letting fans down. But even after a historically bad start, showrunner Jerry Reinsdorf appears keen to do nothing but watch it burn. Chaos is a Ladder Jerry Reinsdorf — the beleaguered owner of the Chicago White Sox — grimaced in disgust as he watched his team ...2024
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• Keeping tabs on old White Sox friends ...

Instead of watching Jake Burger launch bombs for the White Sox, we are forced to view from afar. Thanks, Kenny! | Brennan Asplen/Getty Images Because it’s certainly more fun than what we’re watching now Hey there, fellow White Sox fans! I’m excited to introduce a new feature this season where I’ll update you on how one of our favorite former players is faring with his new team. Not just ...2024
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• White Sox series preview: Welcome, old friends!

Photo by Plumb Images/Leicester City FC via Getty Images The White Sox have become a stop for former Royals. The White Sox lost 101 games last year, an embarrassing culmination of the rebuild movement they embarked on several years go. The disappointing season cost general manager Rick Hahn his job, but rather than clean house, the White Sox promoted farm director Chris Getz to run the tea...2024
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• Season-opening road trip continues for Braves as they head to Chicago to face White Sox

Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images Weather will likely be a factor as the Braves plan to play three against the White Sox on Chicago’s South Side After taking two of three in Philadelphia, the Atlanta Braves will continue their season-opening road trip Monday with a three-game series against the Chicago White Sox. The Braves banged out 25 runs and 39 hits while scoring a series win again...2024
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• 2024 Charlotte Knights Season Preview

Universal No. 1 White Sox prospect Colson Montgomery will start 2024 with a promotion to Triple-A Charlotte, and a clear path to the majors. | Norm Hall/MLB Photos via Getty Images A look at top-prospect shortstop Colson Montgomery and other major league hopefuls who start 2024 at the doorstep of The Show For a White Sox team that lost 101 games last season, at first glance it may seem li...2024
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• Dodgers will live up to the hype

Same region, new uniform: Shohei Ohtani brings his otherworldly talent from Anaheim to Los Angeles. | Mary DeCicco/MLB Photos via Getty Images One writer’s vision of how the 2024 season will play out We have made it to baseball season once again, which is good, but this year, it is not as exciting as usual. The White Sox are the worst team in MLB’s worst division, and their farm system is...2024
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• 2024 MLB Season Preview: Atlanta Braves

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images The Braves enter the 2024 season as the favorite in the National League, but, for better or worse, will ultimately be defined by their postseason success or lack thereof. (Yes, we’re really doing this.) The Atlanta Braves are coming off of a banner 2023 season that saw them set numerous offensive records on their way to an MLB-best 104 wins. Unfortunatel...2024
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• 2024 AL Central preview: The search for signs of life beyond Minnesota

Photo by Frank Jansky/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Twins needed only 87 wins to take the division title in 2023. The ceiling probably won’t be much higher. In 2023, the AL Central was easily the worst division in baseball. It wasn’t in danger of going full 1994 AL West or anything, but at the All-Star break, the Cleveland Guardians were in first place at a dead-even 45-45. All four...2024
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"5 million twice, Nicky Lopez $4."

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"He walked Nicky Lopez in the second and Olson to start the third, but Atlanta was unable to do anything with them."

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"The Royals have won their arbitration hearing over infielder Nicky Lopez, MLB."

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"Nicky Lopez is much improved at the plate in 2021."

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"The rosters are set for the 2017 Arizona Fall League Fall Stars Game as Yankees Number 23 prospect Billy McKinney and Royals Number 11 Nicky Lopez were named the winners of the Fall Stars Final 2 Fan Vote, presented by Bowman Baseball Cards."

• White Sox 8, Rays 7 (10 innings): The Andrew Benintendi Game
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• Twins offer game, White Sox politely refuse to take it, lose 6-3
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• Gamethread: White Sox at Phillies
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• Time to rearrange the deck chairs again

White Sox GM Chris Getz hated last year’s team. I can’t imagine he feels much better about this one. | Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports This year’s Chicago White Sox team is historically pathetic, even by Reinsdorfian standards. Something has to change While Rob Colletti’s analysis yesterday showed why (if you didn’t already know) the problem with the White Sox starts at the top with cha...2024
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• A Game of Groans
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• Singer, Salvy secure series, sweep stalls in successive standoff

Melissa Tamez-USA TODAY Sports A doubleheader split but a series win. The Royals and White Sox split a couple of low-scoring games in today’s doubleheader, with Kansas City winning 4-2 in the first game before losing 2-1 in the second. The first inning was quiet for each team as batters tried to find their footing. Leading off the second, Jonathon Cannon finished a seven-pitch battle with...2024
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• Moon briefly blots out sun, perhaps permanently blots out White Sox offense

Cleveland shortstop Brayan Rocchio assists in searching for the White Sox offense. In the case of such dangerous hunted game, protective glasses are recommended. | Mike Lawrie/Getty Images Pale Hose blanked for the fourth time in 2024. It’s only April The White Sox and Guardians played baseball this evening ... well, the Guardians did, at least. The South Siders seemed to be present in bo...2024
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• Eight-run 7th powers Royals past White Sox in 10-1 win

Photo by Jay Biggerstaff/Getty Images Seth Lugo looked pretty good again, too With two outs in the 6th, Royals starter Seth Lugo gave up a double to Korey Lee, putting the tying run on 2nd. Matt Quatraro ended his night, turning to a struggling Royals bullpen. This was a similar script to Kansas City’s series in Baltimore. One White Sox out and two Royals outs later, a nervous 2-1 game ha...2024
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• White Sox series preview: Welcome, old friends!
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• 2024 Charlotte Knights Season Preview
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• Twins 7, White Sox 0: More of the same
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• A Game of Groans
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• THE WHITE SOX HAVE WON A GAME

A White Sox winner?! | @CheesySox A 3-2 squeaker puts me officially at the top of the coverage standings for South Side Sox Friends, are you sitting down? You are? OK — good. The White Sox have won a game! Against a very talented Braves team. In April! Garrett Crochet was tough as nails throughout the game, and if you don’t believe me, just peek at the Pitching Ninja account. The fir...2024
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• Reynaldo Lopez set to make his Braves’ debut Tuesday against White Sox

Reynaldo Lopez set to face former team | Jonathan Dyer-USA TODAY Sports Lopez will face Garrett Crochet, his former team’s current ace The Atlanta Braves came into the cold and gloomy weather of Chicago yesterday and came away with a 9-0 victory over the White Sox after multiple rain delays which resulted in the game being called before it reached the ninth inning. This evening, Reynaldo L...2024
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• Get to know the Braves’ 2024 Opening Day Roster

Photo by Todd Kirkland/MLB Photos via Getty Images Everything you need to know about the Braves Opening Day roster. The Atlanta Braves finalized their roster for Opening Day Thursday morning when they selected the contract of veteran reliever Jesse Chavez. Below is our annual preview to you up to speed in case you are just coming back to baseball for the start of the regular season. ...2024
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• White Sox split squad goes 1-for-2 vs. California

Hero of the game: Dominic Fletcher | John E. Moore III/Getty Images You win some, you lose some The White Sox split their split-squad day on Friday, losing to the Angels, 2-0, and stomping the A’s, 8-2. The first game started at 3:05 p.m. CT against the Angels. If you happened to be in California or have MLBtv, you could catch the game. The second game against the Athletics was only avai...2024
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• 2024 MLB Season Preview: Atlanta Braves
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• 2024 AL Central preview: The search for signs of life beyond Minnesota
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 15, 2024

Salvy Splashes are not just for MLB | Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images Asia Baseball Previews start today! Max was, of course, all over the notable news that last couple of days. On Wednesday, the big story was that Bo Jackson would be inducted into the Royals HOF. Yesterday, it was announced that former GMs Cedric Tallis and John Schuerholz would join him. Just wanting to link to some st...2024
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• White Sox 9, Rays 4: The Martín Maldonado Game
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• Twins offer game, White Sox politely refuse to take it, lose 6-3
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• The institutional idiocy of dropping José Rodríguez

José Rodríguez in 2023, wondering why he was called up to the White Sox for a week to pinch-run in one game. | Melissa Tamez/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Scrap heap arms > speed-power middle infielder, got it, White Sox There are a lot of other things I need to be doing for South Side Sox late tonight (early a.m., actually), but Thursday’s move requires some follow-up. Oh, you thin...2024
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• Dodgers will live up to the hype
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• White Sox split squad goes 1-for-2 vs. California
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• 2024 AL Central preview: The search for signs of life beyond Minnesota
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• Gamethread: White Sox at Cubs

It’s Kopech Day! | Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images Keep that Cubbie stink away After a two-game split sweep yesterday (try to say that five times fast), the White Sox look to keep the streak alive against the Cubs. Also, somewhat newly married Michael Kopech will get his first spring training start. Though his marriage was not as secretive as Shohei Ohtani’s. Ideally, appear to be h...2024
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• Los Angeles Dodgers 9, Chicago White Sox 6

Yep, you know the drill. Shohei Ohtani took it deep. | Christian Petersen/Getty Images Shohei Ohtani cooks the South Siders for his Boys in Blue debut Happy Tuesday, White Sox fans, and happy Shohei Ohtani is a Dodger day! I hope you’ll join me every Tuesday for White Sox game coverage this season, and my promise to you will be the one that’s endured through all my seasons here: I won’t b...2024
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• Ronald Acuña Jr. homers twice as Braves beat Cardinals

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images The Braves homered five times to snap a three-game skid. The Atlanta Braves flexed their muscles Thursday night snapping a three-game skid with an 8-5 win over the St. Louis Cardinals. The Braves didn’t waste any time getting going Thursday as Ronald Acuña Jr. jumped on the first pitch he saw from Adam Wainwright and drove it over the wall in center for...2023
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• Braves reinstate Ozzie Albies from Injured List, promote Darius Vines

Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images Atlanta gets a big part of their lineup The Atlanta Braves are getting a key piece of their lineup back for Monday’s series opener against the Colorado Rockies, and also giving a different member of their 40-man roster a taste of big league life.. The Braves reinstated Ozzie Albies from the 10-day Injured List Monday and optioned Vaughn G...2023
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• Braves rally late for 8-6 win over Pirates

Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports Kevin Pillar and Orlando Arcia came through with a couple of clutch hits in the ninth to help Atlanta snap a three-game losing streak. Yonny Chirinos struggled and the Atlanta Braves came up short again in a 6-5 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates. It didn’t take the Braves long to get on the board Tuesday night. After getting brushed back by the first pitch ...2023
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• Royals win back-and-forth contest over Angels, 11-8
Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images A season-high 11 runs in an offensive explosion! The Royals erupted for a season-high 11 runs in a wild back-and-forth contest against the Angels that resulted in an 11-8 win for Kansas City on Saturday night. Matt Duffy and Hunter Dozier each had three hits, and the team struck out just three times, their lowest total of the year. The Royals were able...2023
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• Royals almost lose on a straight steal, but walk it off instead, winning 4-3 over Cleveland
Photo by Keith Gillett/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Freddy Fermin, our hero Entering today’s game, the Royals boasted the 3rd worst 80-game start in MLB history and with a loss, would secure the 3rd worst half-season start in history. Lowest winning% in a team's first 80 games in the expansion era. Royals tied for third worst (squeaking out an additional win more than the A's this y...2023
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• Road sweet road: Royals win 3-1 in San Francisco
Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images The Royals match their home win total on the road in one try. The Royals embarked on their first road trip of the year and doubled their win total on the first try, beating the Giants 3-1 in the home opener for San Francisco. Brad Keller was solid for over five innings, and Royals pitchers held the Giants to just five hits. Royals bats have gotten off to a s...2023
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• Matt Olson reaches 50 homers on the season but Braves lose 7-5 to Phillies

Bill Streicher-USA TODAY Sports Andruw Jones now has company in the Braves single-season 50 homer club, as Matt Olson homered twice to reach the milestone number. Matt Olson got two steps closer to breaking Andruw Jones’ franchise record for homers in a single season after he smacked both his 49th and 50th home runs of the season in tonight's game. Unfortunately, it wasn't enough to help ...2023
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• Samad Taylor plays hero in his debut, KC wins 10-9
Photo by Patrick Mulligan/Getty Images This was a roller coaster of a game, but KC finally ends their losing streak. If you didn’t watch this game, it’s hard to describe. Of course, that’s what you pay me for. But first, a visual aid. FanGraphs.com https://www.fangraphs.com/livewins.aspx?date=2023-06-17&team=Royals&dh=0&season=2023 For the vast majority of this g...2023
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• A Game of Groans
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• Nicky Isn’t Ricky But….
Nicky Lopez of the Kansas City Royals is the antithesis of Ricky Henderson, the tsaeb of fantasy baseball. Lopez won't hit for power and....Well, he won't do much of anything except get some steals. Will they be a "manna falling down from heaven" amount of steals? Niet, but steals are a commodity and many fall behind in the early part of the draft, forcing them to pay up later. You won't have to p...2022
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• Royals’ Nicky Lopez among fantasy baseball’s best waiver-wire gems

There are tons of buried treasures on the waiver wire. You just have to look deep — real deep....2021
• Little Nicky Is A Devilishly Good Buy
(NOTE: THIS POST WAS RELEASED EARLY THIS WEEK ON OUR PATREON. IT’S $10/MONTH OR $13/MONTH WITH AN EXTRA WEEKLY PODCAST.) "Your mascara isn't as thick as I'd expect from someone named Billie Eyelash." At a podium, Billie Eilish laughs at Billy Crystal, and the banter fades away as they get serious to announce Best New Artist. Hoping to join previous winners like Evanescence, Bruce Hornsby and the ...2021
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• Add IL Brr To Mondesi
"Hello, Proprietor of a Milliner, I understand your trade is hat-making. I was wondering if you could make this Dairy Queen sundae helmet into a normal-sized head helmet...Right, right, I get that. Yes, I guess I could just buy a helmet from the John Olerud collection, but I'd like this exact Kansas City Royals sundae helmet. It's for Opening Day for the 2021 baseball season, Mr. Milliner--Wait a ...2021
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• Rays 7, White Sox 8: Windy City Woes
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• Twins offer game, White Sox politely refuse to take it, lose 6-3
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• Twins 7, White Sox 0: More of the same
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• Gamethread: White Sox at Phillies
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• Time to rearrange the deck chairs again
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• Gamethread: White Sox at Phillies

It’s Michael Soroka’s turn to try to stem the losing tide. | Justin Casterline/Getty Images Is another losing streak in the cards? Sweet 16 is already in the books — losses, that is — but the White Sox (3-16) nonetheless can give themselves a chance to win their first series of 2024 with a win tonight. Having already been shut out a record seven times through those first 19 games, they’ve...2024
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• A Game of Groans
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• Singer, Salvy secure series, sweep stalls in successive standoff
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• Singer sharp, bullpen barely holds on to win 2-1 over White Sox

Photo by Reed Hoffmann/Getty Images The Will Smith Closer Experience must end now. The Royals got another terrific outing by a starter, a late run on clutch hit, and the bullpen was barely able to hold on to preserve a 2-1 win over the White Sox Friday evening. The Royals improve to 4-4, the first time they have been at .500 since April 20, 2022. The Royals got things going in the opening ...2024
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• Time to rearrange the deck chairs again
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• The institutional idiocy of dropping José Rodríguez
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• 2024 Charlotte Knights Season Preview
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 15, 2024
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• Cubs 8, White Sox 1: Not Great!

Some things never change. | @kindableu Nothing really matters, anyway Today is the day, friends. We’ve got baseball back after a long yet mildly-warm winter. There are new guys on the field competing for that coveted spot in the big leagues, and a new face in the booth with Steve Stone. I’ve enjoyed listening to John Schriffen, but I know fans miss Jason Benetti. Getting this out of t...2024
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• The greatest Royals shortstop seasons of all-time

Jay Biggerstaff-USA TODAY Sports Bobby Witt Jr. is among the best already, but that is not saying very much Shortstop has been a pain point for the Royals since the beginning of the organization. When Freddie Patek has your only run of more than three seasons over 2 WAR in over half a century, you can tell just how rough filling the position has been for this organization. That dearth of t...2023
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• Bird App Recap: Royals 5, White Sox 3
@NorthSideSoxPod Baseball is slowly destroying my life. Eat Arby’s. The White Sox news cycle was a little hectic today ahead of facing the Royals. Some news was as good as it can be, given the unfortunate circumstances. Tim Anderson underwent successful surgery this morning in Chicago to repair a sagittal band tear on the middle finger of his left hand. His expected return to the active...2022
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