Predicting the Sox 2020 Season

The White Sox go into 2020 with expectations of winning for the first time in many years. We haven’t seen the Sox make the playoffs since 2008, the hope is that this can change this year. Also with the season looking like it's only going to be 60 games, it could be a very interesting season.

Going into the season, the Sox strength seems to lie with their offense. Both Tim Anderson and Yoan Moncada are coming off breakout years, having Sox fans expecting more in 2020. The Sox also return the consistency of Jose Abreu in the middle of their batting order. The name I’m most excited to see this year has to be Luis Robert. Robert will make his Major League debut when play resumes, and he comes to the south side as the number three prospect in all of baseball. With both speed and power he should bring excitement to the Sox offense in 2020.

The biggest question for the Sox this year has to be their pitching. The ace for the Sox is going to be Lucas Giolito, who is coming off a breakout season where he finally put everything together. After that they have Dallas Keuchel, who they signed to a deal this off-season. The problem comes after those two. To round out the rotation they have Reynaldo Lopez, Dylan Cease, and a very old Gio Gonzalez. I don’t know about you guys, but personally I don’t have much faith in any of those three guys being anymore than average at best. 

With all that said I am predicting that the Sox will take a big step forward in 2020. While I don’t think they will make the playoffs, I think that they will be competitive all year and in the running for a playoff spot. This is a lot better than what we have seen them do for the past 10 years.

In the end my prediction is that in a 60 game season the Sox will go 28-32 and slightly miss out on the playoffs. I just don’t think the pitching is going to be enough this year, but I do expect them to greatly improve and put themselves in a great position to really compete in 2021.


Prediction: 28 wins and 32 losses

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