After the white SOX have set a record for losses, they do not look improved

The Chicago White Sox are proof of the resilience that is inherent in the structure of MLB. After you set a modern record with 121 losses the following season, you still play a fresh schedule of 162 games. If last year was not enough to knock her out of the league, nothing could never.

The challenge for the administrators of the franchise is to find out where a 41-121 record should take part. The most important decision -makers remain the same people, mainly owner Jerry Rinsdorf and General Manager Chris Getz. Reinsdorf, who is now 88 years old, bought the team in 1981 and has the call to be practical in every facet of baseball operations, which it initiates the selection of attitudes, from the manager via the Play-by-Play channel.

Former manager Pedro Grifol was replaced on August 8 after a defeat of 21 games. Be. This season Will Venable will mean that the team was supposedly put his thumb on the scale without Rinsdorf. He is a 42-year-old Princeton graduate and nine-year-old MLB veteran, who most recently worked as Associate Manager of Texas Rangers.

The franchise, which often seemed without directional, now has a clearer way. They spent the former trading period and the offseason trading with value actors for potential customers. The first big step was a three-way trade to send the starting jug Erick Fedde and the outfield Tommy Pham to the St. Louis Cardinals and the helper Michael Kopech to Los Angeles Dodgers. In return, they received Infieldder Miguel Vargas and two medium -sized views. Vargas scored over 157 record appearances after trading. He also tried to find a defensive home.

In December they sent highly reported Ace Garrett crochets into the Boston Red Sox for four perspectives led by Catcher Kyle Tea. He is a consensus -top -100 overall brochure in the game and should have an impact in Chicago from this year. One of her other consensus-top 100 prospects is Edgar Quero, who is also a catcher near MLB readiness. It could be a challenge to both develop them at the same level at the same time.

In the position of the position player, the team lost the third Baseman Yoán Moncada, the Shortstop Paul Dejong, the right field player Gavin Sheets and the name Hitter Eloy Jiménez. They replaced them with inexpensive veterans such as Infielder Josh Rojas and Outfield, Austin Slater, Mike Tauchman and Michael A. Taylor. None of them were asked by others as something else as part -time role players.

The 2025 White SOX have a projected salary statement of $ 74.4 million, the second lowest in MLB and $ 48.7 million lower than in the previous year. Two players – the left field player Andrew Benintendi and midfielder Luis Robert Jr. – will make up almost half of them.

On paper it is difficult to say that the team has improved. At best, the changes in the line -up are a laundry and you have not replaced your two excellent jugs in crochet and fedde. However, thanks to the crochet trade, the farm system is stronger, but this will only pay minimal dividends in the coming season.

Can a team deteriorate after a record for senselessness? Probably not. A few players are more than not rebelled. With a few happier breaks and hopefully you should outperform a less sharp club house environment over the lowest possible bar of the last season's profit. Your farm system will set you up for a better future in the next few years, but in 2025 it will be another long season for the White Sox.