The First Month is the Deepest

Andrew Reilly · Posted on

Having wrapped up their first month of baseball with the merciless slaughter of the Best in the West, the Sox’ April breaks down as follows:

  • vs KC: 1-2
  • vs MIN: 2-1
  • @ DET: 1-1
  • @TB: 3-1
  • @BAL: 1-2
  • vs TOR: 1-2
  • vs SEA: 2-1
  • Road: 5-4
  • Home: 6-6
  • Overall: 11-10
  • One-Run Games: 3-2
  • Longest Winning Streak: 3
  • Longest Losing Streak: 3

So with one month in the books, what do we know about these White Sox?

WIN BIG OR DON’T BOTHER: The Sox are 8-1 when they score six runs or more; the Sox are also 3-10 when they score five or fewer. Three and ten.

Three and ten. Roll right while Moss goes deep!

IT TRULY IS JUST LIKE OLD TIMES: Bartolo Colon is having a better season than Gavin Floyd. The last time that happened, Brian Anderson was a huge question mark in center field and Scott Podsednik did some time in Charlotte. Mark Buehrle was off to a shaky start and Jose Contreras struggled to recapture the magic that had briefly made him a star. Bobby Jenks looked less reliable than the fire-breathing beast that ended the season prior and. . . you know, we’ll just stop right there. The analogy only gets more depressing as you take it deeper.

HOWEVER, GAVIN FLOYD LEADS THE STAFF IN STRIKEOUTS: This seems wrong.

THE WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC HAS YET TO HAMPER MATT THORNTON: Told you so.

IMAGINE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN HE STARTS HITTING: Carlos Quentin has eight homers and a .253 average. That’s 63 home runs in a 150-hit season and 77 home runs in a 180-hit season. Seventy-seven. Believe.

But statistical hilarity aside, the more telling part lies in the team records. They can’t win a lot, but can’t really lose a lot either. They won’t sweep anyone, but will avoid the embarrassment of having it happen to them. They win by a ton; they lose by very little.

They are in first place, mostly at or around .500 in a division populated by teams at or around .500.

Ninth in the American League in runs scored, thirteenth in doubles, tied for last in triples, seventh in home runs yet eleventh in hits; they can hit with the best of them, these White Sox, even while they can barely keep up with the worst of them.

Somebody better get Rob Mackowiak on the phone.

4 thoughts on “The First Month is the Deepest”

  1. They always start of slow… but then again, they usually finish that way too.

    And Carlos is taking the “home run or nothing” motto a little to seriously.

  2. I knew the 09 Sox would be a pretty lopsided team but that’s pretty bad–even by our low standards. Maybe Kenny can get us some help when TB packs it in?

  3. I don’t think we’ll really KNOW these Sox until the end of May. April was full of such consistent extremes that prediction is currently damn near impossible. Are we a team that loses 14-0, wins 12-2, mounts furious comebacks, dies meekly, has plenty of quality starts with a phenominal 7-8-9, or flounders early and gets pounded later?

    I dunno…I don’t think we’ll have an idea about who these Sox are for another month.

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