The White Sox haven’t been doing much winning lately.

Perhaps you’ve noticed.

With their 7-22 nosedive to start the season, the Sox were only one game better off than last year’s all-time-worst team was after 29 games.

From that 121-loss-bound mess to this?

“It’s not ideal,” left fielder Andrew Benintendi said.

As living the big-league dream goes, it can’t be all that fun.

“I don’t think anybody wants to be on a losing team,” Benintendi said. “It’s just part of it, I guess. We’re going through a rebuild. It is what it is.”

Benintendi — recipient of the largest player contract in Sox history, a five-year, $75 million free-agent deal signed heading into 2023 — has seen highs and lows in his career, and definitely in that chronological order.

In 2016, his first full year of pro ball, he rocketed from High-A all the way to the majors, skipping right past Triple-A to join the playoff-bound Red Sox. Two seasons later, he banged out 168 hits and drove in 87 runs on a team that steamrolled to 108 wins and the World Series title. It doesn’t get much higher than that.

But little, if anything, since joining the White Sox has gone as hoped.

Benintendi was sold a bill of goods about the 2023 Sox, who strutted in with a roster full of players who’d won a division in 2021 but then failed in every way — Benintendi’s meager production one of countless disappointments — en route to a 61-101 finish.

And as bad as the Sox were last season, Benintendi was right there keeping the pace. He hit a career-low .229, had a puny on-base percentage of .289 and ended with a negative WAR — an ignominious distinction.

“Last year was terrible,” he said. “I think everybody that was part of that doesn’t want to do it again.”

The first time Benintendi sat down with the Sun-Times, at the start of spring training in 2023, he went out of his way to defuse interest in him as a topic. He called himself “boring.” Added that he “hated” to talk about himself. Said, “If no one notices me, that would be great.”

A reporter reminded him of that this week. In a sense, Benintendi has gotten what he wished for — though certainly not in the manner he wanted.

Benintendi’s reaction to that was a bit surprising. The Sox continue to lose with historic frequency. Benintendi isn’t exactly hitting the cover off the ball this season. But he swears he’s having more fun this go-round and that his mood around the ballpark has been better, lighter.

“Was I down sometimes last year? A hundred percent, yeah,” he said. “It’s not like I have a new perspective now, but I’m really trying to just take this season for what it is and try to enjoy it as much as possible. …

“I realize I’m not going to play forever. I’ll be 31 in July. I’m realizing that not everything is so life or death. I guess last year, I maybe got all my bad mojo out of the way. Now I can kind of breathe.”

For one thing, he has been through the triple-digit-loss wringer more than once now and lived to tell about it.

“I don’t know if that makes it easier,” he said, “but it’s not as shocking.”

Last season’s Sox clubhouse environment was fine, he said — “There were no fights” — but this one has been a step up in part, according to Benintendi, because this team turns the page more quickly after a bad game. No doubt, an improved disposition from a 10-year veteran helps, too.

Benintendi is even finding more enjoyment in life in the city away from the ballpark. He’s venturing out of his West Loop home more often and having regular “You know what? This isn’t bad” moments.

“It’s super nice,” he said. “There’s food everywhere. It’s walkable. I used to never leave my place.”

And about that contract: It’s not his fault it’s the biggest the Sox have forked over. There are at least half a dozen players in the Sox’ division who have richer total contracts and at least a few others beyond that group with higher annual salaries. And this is the lowest-payroll division in the game, mind you — no big spenders in the group.

Don’t hold the Sox’ shameful miserliness against Benintendi.

Besides, he’s trying to see a brighter side of things.

“Have fun, right?” he said.

It’s worth a shot.