Jim Margalus is the Owner/Managing Editor at Sox Machine, LLC. He specializes in sports journalism, focusing on competitive sports, team sports, individual sports, and the business aspects of the sports industry. Jim's insights and analyses have been featured in notable platforms such as Sox Machine and NewsBreak.
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Jim Margalus focuses primarily on local sports, especially baseball, with a focus on the Chicago White Sox and MLB. Given his coverage attributes of event coverage and expert commentary, he would likely be interested in receiving pitches related to breaking news or developments within the world of baseball.
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By: Jim Margalus
After months of consideration, reconsideration, first-guessing, second-guessing, analysis, paralysis by analysis, wailing and the gnashing of teeth, the White Sox used the No. 1 overall pick in the 2026 MLB draft to select Roch Cholowsky, who was the favorite all along. The biggest surprise ended up being not who the White Sox selected, but how…
By: Jim Margalus
It’s not often that a team’s second pick is as predictable as its first, but the White Sox and prep shortstop Landon Thome are a special pairing. Between his father, Jim Thome, playing and working for the White Sox, Landon Thome playing for the White Sox’s Area Codes team, and Thome being high school teammates…
If you count Jacob Lopez’s work opening for the A’s on Friday along with Gage Jump’s start against the White Sox today, left-handed starters have held the White Sox to two runs over 24 ⅔ innings over the last five games. Fortunately, one of those runs came in Saturday’s game, and that run was enough…
Given that the White Sox held the the top draft pick, and their trade for the 34th-overall pick gave them an additional pick before the second round and the biggest draft pool, it’d be weird if the writers evaluating teams on their first four rounds of drafting couldn’t find reasons for excitement about how the…
Noah Schultz opened the game by giving up a single, erasing it with a double play, and then giving up a solo shot to Shea Langeliers before he could record the third out. Still, Schultz didn’t walk anybody, and he threw 13 of his 16 pitches for strikes. If a guy who came into the…
The White Sox hadn’t held the first overall pick in nearly 40 years, and when they selected Harold Baines at No. 1 back in 1977, he didn’t even have representation until Roland Hemond called him the night before. So it’s fair to call the 2026 draft the most anticipated one in White Sox history. And…
Shane Smith returned to Charlotte after completing his rehab stint at Winston-Salem, which means that he also returned to pitching in a Statcast ballpark.
By: Jim Margalus
For the first time in forever, the release of next year’s White Sox schedule is no longer a welcome distraction from the remainder of the current one. Granted, you might be able to say the same thing even if the White Sox weren’t about to start the second half of the season tied for first…
By: Jim Margalus
Amid all the fun little details in Jesse Rogers’ story from inside the White Sox’s discussions about the No. 1 draft pick, Chris Getz inadvertently laid to rest the idea that he actually believed Luisangel Acuña was a switch-hitter. Late in the piece, Rogers gets to the negotiations between Getz and Joel Wolfe, who happens…
By: Jim Margalus
The White Sox signaled that their recent draft picks were likely to sign and sign soon by establishing a draft camp in Charlotte that started Thursday. Sure enough, they announced that 20 of their 21 picks are officially under terms and part of the organization, and a couple of them have already talked to Kendall…
