{"id":644231,"date":"2026-03-26T09:45:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/644231\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T09:45:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:45:21","slug":"south-side-sox-staff-predictions-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/644231\/","title":{"rendered":"South Side Sox staff predictions for 2026!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ten brave writers opted in to the South Side Sox staff predictions for 2026, and four of them \u2014 Brett Ballantini, Melissa Sage-Bollenbach, Hannah Filippo and Malachi Hayes \u2014 had enough courage to appear on this podcast and defend\/explain their picks. In the case of one writer&#8217;s pick of the north siders as a pennant winners, the decision was utterly indefensible and inducing of gastrointestinal distress.<\/p>\n<p>But that aside, we of course put particular focus on the White Sox, from season record to player MVP, and many categories in-between.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/preseason-predictions\/id1500350854?i=1000757440638\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/preseason-predictions\/id1500350854?i=1000757440638<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ten brave writers opted in to the South Side Sox staff predictions for 2026, and four of them&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2379],"tags":[5,138,49,39268,2561,4,396,2562],"class_list":["post-644231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-white-sox","tag-baseball","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-chicago-white-sox-commentary-analysis","tag-chicagowhitesox","tag-mlb","tag-white-sox","tag-whitesox"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116294839618873136","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}