Can the white SOX climb after a historically terrible season?

The new Manager of White Sox will stand by General Manager Chris Getz Venable Venable during a press conference in November.
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Phoenix – On a February, when thousands of fans in the Los Angeles Dodgers clung to fences a few meters away, the other team, who calls Camelback Ranch Home, kept a baseist in the weight room. When it was over, a group of young men appeared in the first half of their 20s, their faces are largely not distinguished for anyone who has not carefully studied MLB -Prospect charts in recent years.

This is a herd of young talent and long conversations about the basics of what a clean slate looks like. These Chicago White Sox urgently need one. They lost 121 games last year, more than any other team in modern baseball history. This season should be the Nadir of what White Sox Management once promised would be a quick reconstruction process. But this conversion has not yet achieved progress, so nobody can say.

But if the optimism has to go before the pre -MP, there is a lot of it here. This mass of baseball humanity comprises five current and several former members of the top -100 outlook from Baseball America. And General Manager Chris Getz, an overview of the last White SOX administration, which still has the task of changing everything, said he believes that the infrastructure is available to develop these prospects in a way that this organization in the Last years has not achieved.

“Obviously, the most important level of the Major League is at the end of the day,” said Getz. “But we have the feeling that so many processes have improved and they are in a good place where it will appear at the Major League level. We hope that will happen soon. “

Even after 2024, the White Sox could arrange the top management prospects of Bruce Bochys invited by Texas Rangers. Venable, a former Major League outfield, has the reputation of the Level -Lace cooperation and has worked and played for some of the most respected managers of sport.

Some candidates hesitate to start their career as a management with the worst team in modern baseball history, and feared that a inherited mess could reflect their future. But Venable – again a man who was widely regarded as a deeply reasonable baseball understanding – saw something that was worth the risk.

“In order to understand the vision (Getz) for this club, to see the things he has achieved this year and to learn more about people, it was really a breeze,” said Venable.

This vision deliberately does not include numerical expectations this spring. The loss of only 100 games in 2025 would have to require an improvement of 21 games compared to a roster, in which almost every member of his once -pronounced predecessor generation has left the trade in the past two years. The only one who was left, Outfield Luis Robert, could soon be on the move. This spring Robert was striking because of his longevity in the clubhouse: he has a tattoo with his name and number on a white Sox jersey on his calf. This time, dozens of his teammates were not even in the clubhouse with him.

Instead, the spring space of 2025 is filled with young, unproven faces, many of which were acquired for thrown away white sox stars, in the hope that the inventory would ensure enough young talent that the outline of a new core would arise.

If you enter the third season of this painful process, this overview is still blurred. Catcher Korey Lee suffered from the debacle of the last year with an OPS of .591 in 125 games and seems to be Chicago's starter behind the plate. But the catchers Edgar Quero and Kyle Teel, the latter, acquired both top 100 talents in the deal, the Ace left-handed Garrett crocheted into the Boston Red Sox in the low season. In the event of a violation of Lee or the experienced signator Matt Thaiss, the latter seems to go to make room for crosso or tea.

The 25-year-old Lenyn Sosa no longer has any options in the Infield, but has had potential. Miguel Vargas, the price of the deal, who sent the right -hander Michael Kopech to the Dodgers last summer, added his framework after the fight in the months after trading. Colson Montgomery, a 22-year-old who was in Chicago's draft round of the round in 2021, had a hard season in the AAA class last year, his debut in the Major League soon made. Josh Rojas and Brandon Drury will keep space in the meantime. When young players are ready, veterans have to prove with something that has to do it elsewhere.

The outer field is also full of veterans. Austin Slater, Michael A. Taylor, Mike Tauchmann and Joey Gallo have signed here and knew exactly what they got involved-121 losses and all, their role would be to offer enough experienced bats to ward off a similar show .

“Last year I was at the Nationals and we were in the same reconstruction. Many young people who arise and I am an older veteran who only tries to help this boys when they get up here, ”said Gallo, who is relatively old for the White Sox at 31.

“Really old,” said Taylor, 33, from his locker a few meters away. In some club houses, Gallo and Taylor and other additional pieces would be. In this case, you will qualify as managers.

Martín Pérez will do the same for a rotation that looks as solid as the developing units in Chicago. In a sign of White Sox's current situation, 24-year-old Jonathan Cannon won the 24-year-old Jonathan Cannon with an ERA of 4.49 ERA as rookie in 2024.

Behind him, Davis Martin established himself as an option in the middle of the rotation last year. Bryse Wilson, which was called the mandate of the Milwaukee Brewers after publishing a 4.04 -era as Swingman last year, should also jump directly into the Chicago rotation. The bullpen is wide open, and the entire pitching staff will soon offer any number of potential customers who are briefly prepared.

So life with the White Sox, which the present is put together, while creating your farm system can do something that it has not had for some time, even in several years under Getz 'Eye: transform Young Talent in Major League stars .

“Where there were things when I started as a farm director where things are now, I don't think someone who experienced it seven years ago would recognize how it works now. I think we are more than anything but organization, ”said Getz, who was promoted to General Manager after years in the management of the franchise. “… You look at the pitching and hing and the infrastructure that we now have, it is just a lot different from what we had. I think we achieve better results in a faster way. “

Of course, faster does not mean immediately. And even if the White Sox improves dramatically from 2024, they could be one of the worst team in the baseball in 2025. But the white SOX of the last year were uniquely sloppy and frustrating because the basics reveal them as much as their talent.

So, here, from where the star squads of the World Series Champions of the stars of the stars of the stars for perfection, the White Sox only hope for better than the worst, as far away, to be a playoff willingness to be could leave by the end of the year.

“Essentially, [areas such as base running, defense and pitch-framing are] I hope I hope that with the infrastructure we have in the club, I really focus on going out and performing there, ”said Getz. “This kind of approaches and priorities of these areas, if they stack victories in these areas – wins only improvement – we believe that it will occur in the victories and losses.”