Jim Margalus is the Owner/Managing Editor at Sox Machine, LLC. He specializes in covering major league sports, with a focus on competitive and professional sports, as well as the business aspects of the sports industry. Jim's insights and analysis have been featured in notable platforms such as NewsBreak.
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By: Jim Margalus
As the White Sox’s substitution-heavy approach advanced through the Wild Card Series and into the second round of the postseason, I started looking forward to the FanGraphs managerial report card on Will Venable, just to see what a third party would make of it. And while the White Sox squandered a 2-0 lead to the…
By: Jim Margalus
Given that his team squandered a 2-0 lead in the ALDS to the Cleveland Guardians, Chris Getz couldn't exactly take a victory lap in his year-end media sess
By: Jim Margalus
If nothing else, the White Sox are the only team that can say it pulled off an upset this October. Even then, the White Sox had a better record than the team they ousted in the Wild Card Series, but in terms of seeds, their victory over No. 3 Houston as the No. 6 seed…
By: Jim Margalus
The Offseason Plan Project will launch later this week, and if you were hanging on every pitch of the White Sox’s postseason run and pushing off thoughts of 2027 as long as possible, then there’s a lot less time for mapping out the various sections of your blueprint. The center of it all is the…
By: Jim Margalus
The more significant Manager of the Year awards won’t be announced until Nov. 10, but The Sporting News’ version was revealed this morning, and Will Venable earned the nod for the American League, with Pat Murphy taking the honor for the National League. It holds meaning in the sense that SN’s awards are determined by…
With a lockout on the horizon, there’s no knowing quite what the offseason will hold, but we do know it’ll have an Offseason Plan Project, which starts now. If you’re new to Sox Machine, the Offseason Plan Project puts fans in the front office to map out pathways to improving a White Sox team after…
A meeting between the best regular season teams in each league, either of which would be a first-time World Series champion. That seems like it should make
By: Jim Margalus
Caleb Bonemer reported to the Arizona Fall League as the White Sox’s main attraction, and he’s lived up to the billing thus far. Glendale’s 10-0 victory over Mesa on Thursday featured Bonemer’s best game of the showcase to date. He went 3-for-5 while finishing a double shy of the strikeout, and the home run was…
By: Jim Margalus
The White Sox entered the 2026 season with remote chances of making the postseason, whether you judged them by ZiPS (6.6 percent) or PECOTA (1.5 percent), and the most educational part of the six-month viewing experience was seeing all the big and little things that went in to actualizing those single-digits probabilities. It took a…
By: Jim Margalus
Back when John Schriffen was hired by the White Sox in January 2024, he told reporters that he was dedicating himself to White Sox summers. Whether it was purposeful or inadvertent, it looked like an attempt to distinguish himself from Jason Benetti, whose other in-season commitments were supposedly a point of contention between Jason Benetti…
