Brett Ballantini

6 days ago | southsidesox.com | Brett Ballantini |Kyle Thele

Our latest Reacts survey skews a bit more positive than has in recent weeks, asking all readers who the best addition to the White Sox has been in 2025. The results were essentially a three-way tie ... not a bad thing at all, for a team in need of improvements from Player 1 to 26: With “full” control over both Smith and Meidroth, whose service-time clocks started in 2025 and 2026, such immediate success bodes nicely for the foundation the White Sox are trying to build.

1 week ago | southsidesox.com | Brett Ballantini |Kyle Thele

Griffin Quinn/MLB Photos via Getty Images Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the MLB. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Chicago White Sox fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys. The White Sox have had a rough start to the season, filled with numerous underperformances.

1 week ago | southsidesox.com | Mark Liptak |Brett Ballantini

Jamie Sabau/Getty Images 1915It was the biggest shutout in team history, as the White Sox pasted St. Louis, 16-0. The Pale Hose put up seven runs before the home Browns even got to bat, and scored in every inning but the third, seventh and eighth. It was just a 15-hit assault with no homers, so how did the Sox score 16? With help from five Browns errors and six stolen bases!Buck Weaver went 3-for-6 with a double and two runs, pacing all the White Sox hitters ...

1 week ago | southsidesox.com | Mark Liptak |Brett Ballantini

Chicago Tribune 1900Deaf and mute player Billy Hoy signed with the White Sox after a 12-year career starring in the American Association, National League and Players’ League. He played just two years with the White Sox, including their pennant-winning debut in the American League in 1901, when at age 39 he put up a 4.2 WAR season (third on the team and tops among position players). He also hit the first grand slam in AL history.

1 week ago | southsidesox.com | Mark Liptak |Brett Ballantini

1933In the second game of the season, St. Louis Browns center fielder Sam West went 6-for-6 (five singles, a double) against White Sox ace Ted Lyons. West would go on to hit .300 that year, as well as be named to the first-ever AL All-Star team. Despite West’s efforts, the Browns still lost, 11-7. 1965The White Sox turned the tide so to speak from 1964, beating the Orioles in Baltimore on Opening Day, 5-3. They lost to the same club to open the 1964 season at Comiskey Park — by the exact margin.