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Eloy Jimenezs goal is to show the White Sox that his performance at Winston-Salem wasnt a fluke. The White Sox prospect celebrated his promotion to Double-A Birmingham on Wednesday night with a home run in his first at-bat and a double. Fellow prospect Zack Collins also homered in his first game with the Barons after both were promoted from Advanced-A Winston-Salem earlier in the day. Continue to Article

August 16, 2017 10:57:pm EST

The White Sox haven't done much winning this season. J.D. Power released their second annual 2017 Fan Experience Study, and the White Sox rank first in the Chicago market among all the major sports teams. On a 1,000-point scale, the White Sox lead the Chicago market with an 809 rating, slightly above the MLS' Chicago Fire. Continue to Article

August 16, 2017 3:46:pm EST

If an organization is supported by Chicago’s hometown hero, you can bet it’s a good one. STATE Bags, a one-for-one bag brand, already has Chance the Rapper on board with its mission. The organization delivers a fully-stocked backpack to a child in need for every bag sold, with this summer’s efforts focused on the city of Chicago as part of STATE’s #GiveBackPackChicago initiative. Through this program, STATE is working with Chance’s Social Works organization to donate more than 35,000 backpacks to elementary school children in communities across Chicago, with a focus on those in underserved schools to make sure they’re prepared for the new school year. His charity got to work at the Bud Billiken Continue to Article

August 16, 2017 10:10:am EST

(CBS) Ozzie Guillen took the White Sox where they hadn’t been since 1919, leading them to the World Series championship in 2005. But despite what he accomplished as manager of the White Sox, the end to his tenure with the team in 2011 — one that brought a public feud with executive Kenny Williams — became too much for Guillen ever to return to that role, chairman Jerry Reinsdorf said in a revealing interview with USA Today. Guillen was fired from the Marlins after one season in 2012, a year in which he made public comments saying he respects the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. He hasn’t managed in the majors since. “I feel very badly for him,’’ Reinsdorf said in the interview. “Ozzie is a good Continue to Article

August 15, 2017 9:37:pm EST

Sitting in his bedroom in Winnetka, IL, then-11-year-old Rick Hahn would compose letters to the late Dallas Green, who served as the Cubs’ general manager from 1981 to 1987. Hahn, then a Cubs fan, said he became more enthralled with the position as each letter arrived in his mailbox, hoping to someday be the one forming a roster for an MLB team. Now, 35 years later, Hahn, as GM of the White Sox, is doing just that, having dramatically transformed the fate of the franchise in the past eight-plus months by constructing what many believe is the best farm system in baseball. Continue to Article

August 15, 2017 12:35:pm EST