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By Josh Wilson
White Sox suffer another blow due to Eloy Jimenez hospitalization
The Chicago White Sox have tumbled far over the last few years. After looking like a threat in 2020 and 2021 to race deep into the AL portion of the postseason bracket, the White Sox missed out on the 2022 playoffs and appear poised to do so again this year.
A bad year got even worse on Saturday with Eloy Jimenez going out for 4-6 weeks. He went to the hospital Saturday morning to get abdominal pain looked into, where they discovered he would need an appendectomy according to the Sun-Times.
Jimenez has the team’s fourth-best OPS and slugging percentage, with 25 hits in 97 at-bats this season so far.
Chicago has fallen to 11-23 and is dead last in the AL Central, shaping up to be an atrociously bad division with four out of the five teams below .500 right now.
At 4.06 runs per game, Chicago has the eighth-lowest in that department in the league. Losing a bat right now is entirely unideal.
Tim Anderson, another key piece of the lineup, has been out since the second week of the season with a knee sprain. The hits just keep on coming for the team on the south side of Chicago.