Jim Margalus

Jan 20, 2025 | soxmachine.com | Jim Margalus

By most standards — and perhaps yours — the White Sox’s free agent outlay has been pitiful, with no new 2025 salary greater than $3.5 million added to the books. By the standards of this particular offseason, it has been reasonably productive, because you can at least say that Chris Getz is minding the gaps on the roster. They’re not covered by anything sturdy enough to stand on, yet it’s also more than a lot of teams are doing. A shocking amount of teams have lay dormant this season.

Jan 17, 2025 | soxmachine.com | Jim Margalus

In his first year as White Sox director of player development, Paul Janish oversaw fairly substantial changes for the player development staff. He, Chris Getz and Josh Barfield brought in a fair amount of coaches from the outside and set new paths at the director and coordinator levels of the organization. While the results were inconsistent on the hitting side, they made some strides on the other side of the ball, and won games than usual in the minors as well.

Jan 12, 2025 | soxmachine.com | Jim Margalus

The White Sox reached contracts with their four remaining arbitration-eligible players on Thursday. Every 2025 salary came in under their MLB Trade Rumors projections, as though everybody was docked a certain percentage for being a member of the 2024 White Sox. That even includes Penn Murfee, a waiver claim who wasn’t actually part of the 2024 White Sox. He was acquired by the White Sox in 2024, though, and apparently that’s his cross to bear.

Dec 10, 2024 | soxmachine.com | Jim Margalus

DALLAS — At the previous winter meetings in Nashville, the White Sox ended up on the wrong end of the draft lottery by getting the fifth pick, an extra insult after finishing the 2023 season with baseball’s fourth-worst record. Worse yet, because they finished in the top six, they were ineligible for this year’s lottery, and would be relegated to picking no higher than 10th.

Dec 9, 2024 | soxmachine.com | Jim Margalus

Nearly three weeks after Will Venable informally announced the identity of his new bench coach, the White Sox formally announced the hiring of Walker McKinven and the rest of the major league coaching staff today. Daryl Van Schouwen reported at the start of the month that the White Sox were retaining a majority of their coaches, which members of the organization had signaled here and there with offhand references to coaches who could theoretically be replaced.