#Eloy Jiménez

Ever catch yourself thinking, "Boy, I'd love to see the Rick Hahn 2023 master craftsmanship roster breakdown all in one place?" Well, ponder no further. We present you with the White Sox 40-man (well, 39-man) roster as it currently stands. Of course, this can change at any time. So come on in and take a waltz down memory lane. You know your brain…

This story was excerpted from Scott Merkin's White Sox Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, . And to get it regularly in your inbox. Making predictions for an upcoming Major League Baseball season is tough enough following Spring Training, and those prognostications come after watching baseball for six weeks to gain a working knowledge of…

Over the past few seasons, MLB teams from across the league have been starting to lock up their young stars to long-term contracts earlier and earlier into their service time. In doing so, teams are avoiding going to arbitration with their top players and giving them guaranteed money through their prime years. Some players are receiving these deals…

Welcome to playoff baseball, where the "best" team wins the championship far less often than in other sports. To wit: According to Baseball Prospectus odds, no team in the 2021 playoff field has better than a 20 percent chance to win the World Series. With eight deserving teams ready to do battle, let's dive into the reasons each particular team…

The Houston Astros are in the process of finalizing a deal with free agent first baseman José Abreu for three years and roughly $50 million, Jim Bowden of CBS Sports HQ confirms. Abreu, 35, is a three-time All-Star who has won three Silver Sluggers, a Rookie of the Year award and the 2020 AL MVP. Last season, he appeared in 157 games for the White…

One of the great observations of the Chicago baseball scene appeared several decades ago in a column by my former Chicago Tribune colleague Steve Daley. "Baseball has no offseason in Chicago," Daley wrote. "Interest only starts to wane when the teams start to play their games." That was long before the Cubs and White Sox ended their respective…

Happy Saturday, White Sox fans, and Happy Free Windbreaker Giveaway Day, if you attended this game. Let me try that again. Happy Saturday, White Sox fans, and Happy Mark Payton in Left Field day. No, that doesn't work either. Happy La Russa Is Officially Out for the Remainder of the Year on Medical Leave and is Unlikely to Return Next Year…

The Josh Hader trade isn't the only deadline deal that has yielded less-than-rewarding results thus far for the Padres. Juan Soto hasn't been as bad as Hader at his worst (the closer has lately righted the ship), but after a good start for his new team, he's fallen into a deep slump. As the Padres battle to hold onto the third NL Wild Card spot,…

Our Daily Dinger home run prop picks stayed hot again on Monday night, as Ben Heisler's selection of Pirates slugger Rodolfo Castro paid off against left-hander Mike Minor in Cincinnati. With the full team back in action, we've got two plays on one red-hot hitter on the road in Detroit, a bet on the best home run hitter in the game to deliver in a…

Sometimes it's fun when a team's home run leader is not the one you'd expect, but I think it's one of those columns where you'd prefer a little bit of certainty. For instance, the first time I posed the question in the above headline was during the homestretch of the 100-loss 2018 season. By the second week of September, the leaderboard had José…