The White Sox snapped their 14-game losing streak at Target Field, successfully holding a modest lead after the starter completed five innings.

First mock draft has the Chicago White Sox continue a route of adding position players with good athleticism and defensive versatility, but limited power potential.

There's a lot more to fastballs working than just velocity, and we're certainly going to get a little bit in the weeds here, but it's the simplest place to start with Shane Smith's. After sitting at 94 mph his previous two outings and looking more like someone regressing to his career velocity norms, Smith's fastball rebounded to average 96.4 mph last Saturday pitching in front of friends and family at Fenway Park, and even clipped 98.

The Charlotte Knights were shut out by Scranton/Wilkes-Barre on Wednesday, and for the first few innings, that didn't quite sum up the lack of offense, for RailRiders starter Allan Winans opened the game by striking out 10 of the first 11 batters he faced: Travis Jankowski, strikeout Greg Jones, strikeout Brandon Drury, strikeout TIm Elko strikeout Kyle Teel, strikeout Bryan Ramos, strikeout Colson Montgomery, walk Corey Julks, strikeout Zach DeLoach, strikeout Travis Jankowski, strikeout Greg Jones, strikeout The post appeared first on .

If the Twins brought tonight's defensive effort to , the White Sox might've finally ended up winners at Target Field.

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Strike-throwing and weak contact has helped keep Bryse Wilson's surface-level numbers intact so far (4.50 ERA in 12 innings), but it would be hard to miss the four home runs (all of them barreled) that have spiked all his run estimators much farther north (6.38 xERA, 6.79 FIP) as he prepares to shift back to starting in the wake of Martín Pérez's flexor muscle injury.

Three White Sox prospects surfaced on two of Baseball America's weekly watch lists, all on the position-player side of things.