{"id":79100,"date":"2025-08-17T10:52:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T10:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=79100"},"modified":"2025-08-17T10:52:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T10:52:35","slug":"breaking-chicago-white-sox-just-not-that-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=79100","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Chicago White Sox just \u201cnot that good\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

The easiest thing in the world to do \u2014 or at least the easiest thing to do in 79 of 123 games so far this season \u2014 is to write a recap that dogs the White Sox for sucking. And it\u2019s especially tempting for me, not pulling a heavy recap load any longer but combing over most every one of these, to gently nudge our writing staff to find something positive<\/s> interesting<\/s> \u2026 OK, well something<\/em> unique to say about the club we follow. One of my big questions in prepping someone to recap here is: Why are we reading your <\/em>take on this game, our team, the performances or decisions?<\/p>\n

Such higher-minded goals make sense, in a normal world, covering a normal team. But we are almost assured of a third straight 100-loss season (no, the White Sox had never lost 100 in as much as back-to-back seasons before 2024). Even better, when the club ends up, oh, 57-105 we\u2019ll be spoon-fed some sunshine about a 16-win improvement or a rookie\u2019s hot September instead of firings and spending and organizational mea culpas.<\/p>\n

And all that to say, man, it\u2019s tough to recap Loss 79 in any season, much less when it comes in mid-August, without mailing in a paint-by-numbers account of the pain.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not going to do that tonight, and not only because I have four other affiliate losses to recap, as our org is just one big L FROM HELL this humid Saturday. Suffice to say the White Sox were very, very, very bad in Kansas City. As bad as in 2024? No, the team both managed to stop Kansas City from scoring in half of their batting innings AND managed to third the lead with two outs in the eighth, as Andrew Benintendi lobbed a 340-foot fly ball right into the right-center gap to plate two. Lenyn Sosa and Luis Robert Jr. both got on base, twice. Mike Vasil finished out the laffer with two scoreless innings.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, the Royals were looking to TOOTBLAN like Chiefs fans itching to chop, so this game could have easily run into double-digit runs if K.C. wasn\u2019t so very chronically a .500 team this season.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s about it. And I don\u2019t have the time or energy to properly detail the bad, but there is a lot of it. This team is not going to get cured with matriculations to the majors, or with free-agent spending, or, dunno, better luck. Sean Burke was again both bad and inefficient; needing 85 pitches to get 11 outs is embarrassing even when you\u2019re not coughing up three runs in doing so. Miguel Vargas is simply not looking like a guy. Mike Tauchman continues to get run on this team instead of riding the pine for a contender (or on a 78-loss team, heyo), an indication that for some goofy reason (or, wait, this just in the White Sox still have NO OUTFIELDERS in the system, so there is a reason) Chris Getz sees Tauchman as a building block.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s talk of the White Sox now being back to fun-bad, as if bad is ever fun (although yeah, I get the distinction even if I\u2019m not enamored of my team wearing the T-shirt). I\u2019m not so sure. The wake-up of the offense in July, pulling it definitively into the plus-WAR column for the first time in about 250 games, was heartening. There are some players to build on. But, uh, wait that\u2019s it?<\/p>\n

Are there enough players to build on to avoid a \u201clottery penalty\u201d again for the 2027 draft? Enough hope to see playoff contention even in a fairly mediocre AL Central before 2030? Enough karma to outfit the front office into a lean, mean winning machine? I\u2019m not so sure.<\/p>\n

Anyway, Sox lost, 6-2. eat arby\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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