[Fangraphs] 2023 ZIPS Projections: Chicago White Sox
November 29, 2022
[Fangraphs] 2023 ZIPS Projections: Chicago White Sox
7 comments
about right
“The White Sox did so many things well while building up the team, but they face-planted as soon as it was time to compete. Once the fun began, the discipline in the team’s decision-making disappeared. Want the 1980s manager for no reason? Sure! Need to solve the problem of two of your best young bats both essentially being designated hitters? Split the difference and have neither of them be the DH! Surely all that money you were going to use to sign Manny Machado will go towards other budgetary needs? Nope? Well, you’ve got Leury Garcia.
There’s so much talent here, including half a dozen or so still-youngish players who should be part of the organization over the long haul. But when the Sox reached for the top, it’s almost like upper management decided that hanging out at Base Camp was pretty sweet, leaving no need to head for the summit”
77 win season here we go
Look at 2b: “no Garcia, plz” 🤣
Call me naïve, but I choose to be optimistic in that we would not have let Harrison and Engel walk if we did not intend on making upgrades at 2B and RF
Had so much hope for this rebuild. Worried that this is it. This is what we got out of it. A cool game 3 in the DS and the FoD game.
I guess the ceiling is still there. If every single thing goes right. But that’s been our motto any time we’ve tried to compete for the last 15 years and that’s been the reason we’ve been insignificant.
So let’s see if Eloy, Kopech, and Luis can stay healthy. Let’s see if Yoan, Gio, and Yaz bounce back. Let’s see if Vaughn builds on his start last year and is truly the heir apparent. Let’s see if Sheets/Colas/Zavala/Martin are real MLB players. Lets see if we can get some goddamn production out of 2B. Let’s see if Lynn can keep it up another year. Let’s see if Clevinger isn’t washed. Let’s see if the bullpen (sans Hendriks) figures it the fuck out that you can’t throw 2 balls for every 1 strike.
And God forbid one of those things goes wrong. That’s when we trade our 3rd best prospect for a #4 starter who goes on to put up a 4.86 while some other team develops a stud courtesy of our poverty ass franchise
Well, time to start the next rebuild.
> The final projections aren’t in, but it looks like they’ll be projected to have at least a top-three relief corps per ZiPS, if not the best in baseball. You can go eight or nine deep on the depth chart before you hit a reliever who I’d really be frightened to see outside of a low-leverage situation.
The only really optimistic part of the write up is about the most high variance and least important part of the team.
7 comments
about right
“The White Sox did so many things well while building up the team, but they face-planted as soon as it was time to compete. Once the fun began, the discipline in the team’s decision-making disappeared. Want the 1980s manager for no reason? Sure! Need to solve the problem of two of your best young bats both essentially being designated hitters? Split the difference and have neither of them be the DH! Surely all that money you were going to use to sign Manny Machado will go towards other budgetary needs? Nope? Well, you’ve got Leury Garcia.
There’s so much talent here, including half a dozen or so still-youngish players who should be part of the organization over the long haul. But when the Sox reached for the top, it’s almost like upper management decided that hanging out at Base Camp was pretty sweet, leaving no need to head for the summit”
77 win season here we go
Look at 2b: “no Garcia, plz” 🤣
Call me naïve, but I choose to be optimistic in that we would not have let Harrison and Engel walk if we did not intend on making upgrades at 2B and RF
Had so much hope for this rebuild. Worried that this is it. This is what we got out of it. A cool game 3 in the DS and the FoD game.
I guess the ceiling is still there. If every single thing goes right. But that’s been our motto any time we’ve tried to compete for the last 15 years and that’s been the reason we’ve been insignificant.
So let’s see if Eloy, Kopech, and Luis can stay healthy. Let’s see if Yoan, Gio, and Yaz bounce back. Let’s see if Vaughn builds on his start last year and is truly the heir apparent. Let’s see if Sheets/Colas/Zavala/Martin are real MLB players. Lets see if we can get some goddamn production out of 2B. Let’s see if Lynn can keep it up another year. Let’s see if Clevinger isn’t washed. Let’s see if the bullpen (sans Hendriks) figures it the fuck out that you can’t throw 2 balls for every 1 strike.
And God forbid one of those things goes wrong. That’s when we trade our 3rd best prospect for a #4 starter who goes on to put up a 4.86 while some other team develops a stud courtesy of our poverty ass franchise
Well, time to start the next rebuild.
> The final projections aren’t in, but it looks like they’ll be projected to have at least a top-three relief corps per ZiPS, if not the best in baseball. You can go eight or nine deep on the depth chart before you hit a reliever who I’d really be frightened to see outside of a low-leverage situation.
The only really optimistic part of the write up is about the most high variance and least important part of the team.