Surprise Success of the White Sox in MLB 2026 Season
The 2026 Chicago White Sox, MLB's surprise team, excelled by making pivotal trades and signings, achieving notable progress. Can they do some playoff damage?
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You know, you mentioned Chicago.
I'll ask you about both Chicago teams.
Who are you more surprised with?
I mean, obviously the Cubs were supposed to be in the contention for, you know, their division here, but how about those White Sox?
I mean, Will Venable has to be considered the manager of the year.
I mean, I never saw the Chicago White Sox coming, so I would assume you're probably like me here.
The Chicago White Sox have to be maybe one of the most surprising teams in baseball this year.
Oh, absolutely.
And, and they have the signing of the year with Munetaka Murakami, who missed some time but is gonna end up a 30 home run guy, overseas on such a small contract.
That was huge.
They have another player, Colson Montgomery, a young player who's playing great.
Miguel Vargas, who was in the trade that the White Sox made with the Dodgers a couple of years ago.
So look, the, the White Sox are a little bit ahead of schedule.
They made the trade for Luis Castillo.
That shows you that they wanna make a little bit of a push here and inject some life into their rotation.
Realistically speaking, the White Sox are battling those Cleveland Guardians, Dan.
Those are the same Guardians who won 10 games in a row in September last year.
They were left for dead, and then caught the Tigers and won the division.
So that's who they're gonna have to fight with, I think, to win the division.
They've been a surprise.
As far as the Cubs go, I think, Dan, they're trending toward the postseason, but I gotta tell ya, it feels, you know, a little icky- Yeah to me with the Cubs every year, or the Cub- you know, the Cubs a couple years ago, they had it locked in.
They didn't get in.
Sometimes they make the playoffs, they get knocked out right away.
I, I don't know.
I, I, I feel like whoever plays that, the Cubs team in the first round, the Cubs will be favored, but I'll probably take the other side.
