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Silver Slugger 2020: Trout Wins Eighth; Braves Win Four, White Sox Win Three Major League Baseball announced the 2020 winners of their annual Silver Slugger Awards Thursday night, honoring the top hitters at each position in each league. Eight of the twenty honorees were first-time winners. Three teams – the Atlanta Braves, the Chicago White […] READ MORE
A’s 6 White Sox 4 The Oakland Athletics defeated the Chicago White Sox 6-4 Thursday afternoon in Oakland winning the Wild Card series two games to one. In what was a true all hands on deck bullpen game, the teams combined to use 17 pitchers setting a record for a postseason game. This A’s White […] READ MORE
Athletics 5 White Sox 3 The A’s White Sox series is heading for a deciding game three. The Oakland Athletics defeated the Chicago White Sox 5-3 to even up the best of three series on Wednesday afternoon. The first two games of the series were very similar with the winning team getting an early lead. […] READ MORE
The season is roughly halfway over for most teams, so now is a good chance at what should have been the all-star teams from each of the respective leagues. Members of the Last Word on Sports baseball staff voted on what these hypothetical 2020 All-Star squads would look like. So here are the results for […] READ MORE
Indians and White Sox Double Dose Game One: Indians 4, White Sox 3 Game One of the doubleheader went down to the wire for the Cleveland Indians. The Indians scored all four of their runs during the first three innings of the game. After that, the pitching dominated enough to hold the Chicago White Sox […] READ MORE
Ed Howard is considered by many scouts as the best shortstop in the 2020 MLB Draft class. He is currently listed as the 15th-best prospect on MLB.com’s 2020 Prospect Rankings, and will likely be the first high school infielder chosen in the draft. If Howard is drafted in the first round, he’ll become the first […] READ MORE
Fear not, Chicago White Sox fans. Though the record after the All-Star break is disappointing, Sox fans all knew this was coming. The target year of the White Sox Rebuild has always been 2020 and beyond. A team that has Ryan Cordell, Yolmer Sanchez, Welington Castillo, Jon Jay, etc. all getting consistent playing time was […] READ MORE
Baseball, the sport with the “unwritten rules” — as some like to call it. Everyone knows these rules exist, but not everyone understands them. Nor does everybody have the same interpretation of these rules. One of the unwritten rules that have come up in recent discussion is the bat flip. With home runs on the rise, […] READ MORE
The Chicago White Sox may be off to a slow start at 11-14, but they are getting significant contributions from an unlikely source. Tim Anderson has taken a tremendous leap forward this season. This has flown under the radar due to a controversial bat flip against the Kansas City Royals on April 17th stealing his […] READ MORE
This is Ejection Inspection, Week Three, Part Two. Ejections 9-16 are covered here, while ejections 1-8 were covered in Part One. There were a whopping 16 ejections in Week Three – more than Week One and Week Two combined. Four were players, one was a player on the injured list, three were coaches, and eight were […] READ MORE