Neal on January 18 http://www.twinsfanproshop.com/authentic-max-kepler-jersey , 2018 to a minor league contract and he was also invited to spring training.Neal started the season at Oklahoma City but then on..."The Dodgers signed right-handed pitcher Zach Neal on January 18, 2018 to a minor league contract and he was also invited to spring training.Neal started the season at Oklahoma City but then on April 3rd, the Dodgers selected his contract.Neal’s stay was short, he was designated for assignment on April 5th and then he was sent outright to Oklahoma City on April 6th.On April 17, 2018, the Cincinnati Reds traded right-handed pitcher Ariel Hernandez to the Dodgers for Neal and infielder Ibandel Isabel.Neal would return to the Dodger organization on July 4, 2018 when the Reds traded Neal and right-handed pitcher Dylan Floro to the Dodgers for two right-handed pitchers, James Marinan and Aneurys Zabala.Neal would finish the season at Oklahoma City and then on October 11, 2018, he elected to become a free agent.What went rightWhen Neal returned to Oklahoma City in July, he is used primarily as a starting pitcher.In 11 starts, Neal pitched 53鈪?innings with a 3.35 ERA and 39 strikeouts.What went wrongNeal gave up 10 home runs in 39?innings when he pitched for the Louisville Bats, the Reds Triple-A affiliate.2018 particularsAge: 30Stats:For the Los Angeles Dodgers - 1 game, 1 inning, 1 run, 1 home run.Game of the yearAs it was his only major league appearance in 2018, I feel I must choose is April 3rd appearance at Arizona.As noted above, he pitched one inning and gave up John Ryan Murphy’s solo homer.Neal also had a six scoreless innings start for Oklahoma City on August 18, 2018.He struck out season high seven batters and gave up just three hits.Roster statusAs noted above, Neal elected to become a free agent. Ken Rosenthal reports that Neal has signed to play in Japan next season. Whether one of the Good Guys wearing black, or as a formidable opponent, several players up for the Hall this year have South Side connections"Virtually every player on the 35-man Hall of Fame ballot has some tie, tenuous or otherwise, to the Chicago White Sox. Some of the highlights:One’s a future Hall-of-Famer, one is not.Photo by Jed Jacobsohn/Getty ImagesAfter the 1996 season, Roger Clemens had decided — after his home state Houston Astros and Texas Rangers took a pass — that he wanted to settle in Chicago with his family, and pitch for the White Sox. He was looking for something in the neighborhood of $8 million per year, but Ron Schueler and his scouting staff infamously opted instead to reward Jaime Navarro with a four-year deal http://www.twinsfanproshop.com/authentic-max-kepler-jersey , $20 million deal. Over the next four seasons, Clemens generated 27.5 bWAR ... Navarro, -5.0 bWAR. No, that’s not just 5.0 bWAR over four seasons, it’s negative 5.0 bWAR. Navarro would never have a positive-WAR season again in his career, while Clemens would churn out another 58.0 bWAR after 1996.Sweaty.Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty ImagesFreddy Garcia was both a famed member of the White Sox’s 2005 World Series staff, and a pitcher who commanded both Gavin Floyd and Gio Gonzalez in trade after the 2006 season. When he returned to Chicago via free agency in 2009-10, he had enough gas in the tank for 3.4 bWAR over 38 starts.Young Jon Garland, No. 52 in your initial yearbooks, No. 20 once he was hazed properly.Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty ImagesJon Garland spent his first eight seasons with the White Sox, generating almost all of his career bWAR with the club (18.5 of 22.5). His peak of 4.6 bWAR came in that historic 2005 season. That he was snatched from the Chicago Cubs, still a bespectacled teen (18 years old), is even better. (Seriously, can you imagine, today, trading away your first-round choice (No. 10 overall) just a year after the draft, at all ... let alone, for Matt Karchner?)Andruw Jones will make the Hall of Fame one day for his defense — not his sliding technique.Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty ImagesAfter the terrible setbacks of 2008 with the Los Angeles Dodgers and 2009 with Texas (combining for -1.3 bWAR), Andruw Jones signed with the White Sox for the 2010 season and got his mojo workin’ again. Coming off of a $22 million contract, Jones signed for part-time play and part-time money ($500,000). He put up a 1.9 bWAR in just 328 plate appearances, hit his 400th career homer in Sox Park, and earned himself one more contract, with the New York Yankees, in 2011-12.Oswalt’s World Series walk of shame.Photo by G. N. Lowrance/Getty ImagesRoy Oswalt got the stuffing kicked out of him by the White Sox in the fifth inning of Game 3 of the 2005 World Series. The inning started off with a Joe Crede solo shot, and in a very Clemensian move, Oswalt hit Crede to load the bases back up with two outs, as the White Sox batted around. That one-inning shellacking marred Oswalt’s only World Series appearance.Fortysomething degrees and pregame flurries greeted Andy Pettitte in Game 2 of the 2005 World Series.Photo by G. N. Lowrance/Getty ImagesAndy Pettitte started Game 2 of the 2005 World Series but petered out after six innings Jason Castro Jersey , leaving with a 4-2 lead. Unfortunately, that meant Dan Wheeler came in to relieve Pettitte, and Wheeler eventually loaded the bases on a phantom Jermaine Dye HBP with two outs, whereupon Chad Qualls yielded the tastiest grand slam in World Series history (or, at least, Chicago World Series history) to Paul Konerko.South Side Murderer’s Row, ca. 2011: Juan Pierre, Dayan Viciedo, Alex Rios.Photo by David Banks/Getty ImagesWell-maligned during his time in Chicago, Juan Pierre was a righteous cat, all things told. He had a cumulative -0.6 bWAR in 2010-11 with the White Sox, with most all of the negative value coming from his dreadful fielding in left. If the White Sox had been able consistently to inject Pierre as, counterintuitively, a DH, both team and player would have ended up in the black.Incredulity, thy name is Manny.Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty ImagesThe one beef I recall having with Ken Williams during my beat time was over signing Manny Ramirez. To bring Manny in to a team famously anti-PED seemed wholeheartedly counter to Chisox culture. And KW did not like being questioned along such lines. Anyway, Ramirez was ineffectual (0.2 bWAR) over 28 late-2010 games with the White Sox. Mariano trots in for one of his 43 career saves vs. the White Sox — his most against any non-AL East opponent.Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty ImagesLet’s talk Mariano Rivera, as he’s getting boosted as a possible unanimous selection. Oh, please — and not just because there are some doofus voters out there. But Rivera, you recall, broke into the majors as a starter. His second career win — and correct me if I’m wrong, but longest career outing — was July 4 at Sox Park, an eight-inning, two-hit, 11-K effort. The future saves leader struck out Dave Martinez three times, and The Deacon, Warren Newson, all four times he faced him. (Given I just looked up the box Phil Hughes Jersey , what’s the deal with Martinez and Newson switching corner outfield spots twice in the game, Martinez RF-LF-RF, Newson LF-RF-LF?)The rapier wit of Wrigley.Sammy Sosa, do we really need to get into it? I suppose a great thought exercise would be to imagine the White Sox never traded Sosa. How would we rationalize his bending of the rules, from PEDs to corked bats, or his excessive Sammy-hamminess? Let’s just say, Sosa on the White Sox oozed with potential. Talk about a Panther — he might well have been Luis Robert before Robert was even born. I can still crisply recall Sosa’s two-homer Opening Day vs. the Baltimore Orioles — both homers were upper tank, no?Omar Vizquel, fashion plate.Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty ImagesOmar Vizquel managed to have a modest impact on the White Sox late in his career — sartorially, if in no other way — and is now an up-and-coming manager in the Chicago system. Vizquel played all four infield positions plus DH with the White Sox, including his first career appearance at first base. Ultimately, Vizquel had no statistical impact on the club in 2010 and 2011 (-0.2 bWAR), but his clubhouse leadership then can be measured now, as he is being trusted with the young careers of such White Sox blue-chippers as Robert and Blake Rutherford.Has there ever been a goofier batting stance/swing than Yolk’s?Photo by Stephen Dunn/Getty ImagesAnd finally, Kevin Youkilis, heh, he sure made a brief, big impact on the 2012 White Sox, when they were a first-place team shocking the hell outta the league (and, no doubt, Robin Ventura himself). In three months (after a midseason trade) and 80 games, Youkilis piled up 1.4 bWAR in a sort of career last gasp. Who’d I miss? Did Lance Berkman have a secret free-agent flirtation with the White Sox? Did Jeff Kent get into a postgame fight with Tony Phillips? How many times did Williams almost trade for Vernon Wells?Additionally, feel free to share a personal memory of any of this year’s HOF contenders, White Sox-related or not.