Mitchell Armentrout

1 week ago | chicago.suntimes.com | Mitchell Armentrout

A rain-soaked forecast washed out the White Sox’ game against the St. Louis Cardinals Wednesday evening at Rate Field. The teams will play a straight doubleheader starting at 1:10 p.m. Thursday. Pitcher Sean Burke will start the first game, followed by Mike Vasil in the second match-up, which will start 30-45 minutes after the conclusion of the first.

1 week ago | chicago.suntimes.com | Mitchell Armentrout

Two of the youngest players on one of Major League Baseball’s youngest teams are shepherding one of the youngest pitching staffs in the game. Would a little veteran savvy help rookie White Sox catchers Kyle Teel and Edgar Quero speed up their development? It wouldn’t hurt, but for now the Sox are leaning into their youth — and looking for them to take the next step as long-term components of a rebuilding team.

1 week ago | chicago.suntimes.com | Mitchell Armentrout

A whirlwind month for freshly arrived first baseman Ryan Noda put him through the business-side wringer of baseball, only to see him realize a boyhood dream. Noda grew up a White Sox fan in northwest suburban Fox Lake, graduating from Grant Community High School in 2014. The Sox picked him up last week off waivers from Boston, putting him in line for regular playing time at first in the wake of Andrew Vaughn’s trade to the Milwaukee Brewers and Tim Elko’s demotion to Triple-A Charlotte.

1 week ago | chicago.suntimes.com | Mitchell Armentrout

The Chicago Fire FC teased soccer under the skyline Monday with renderings of the team’s proposed $650 million South Loop stadium, to be bankrolled by billionaire owner Joe Mansueto. Fans would stream down from Roosevelt Road into the 22,000-seat, open-air pitch on the north end of the parcel known as The 78 — the long-vacant area near Clark Street that White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf had coveted for a new stadium until Mansueto called dibs earlier this month.

1 week ago | chicago.suntimes.com | Mitchell Armentrout

Gov. JB Pritzker on Monday held up the largest budget in Illinois history as an example of state Democrats’ “fiscal responsibility” in the face of congressional Republicans, who he claimed are “spending wildly on tax cuts“ under President Donald Trump. The $55.1 billion state spending plan signed into law by Pritzker marked one of the toughest budget seasons of his tenure, with a series of “difficult decisions” that the governor said lawmakers were forced into amid federal funding uncertainty.