The other baseball team in Chicago. [View all]

Yeah, the Cubs are disappointing this year. But we also have another team in Chicago. They're called the White Sox, and they're surprisingly good. After finishing 2024 with 121 losses, the team traded basically every asset they had for prospects, and now some of those prospects are playing major league ball. None of them look like Hall of Famers just yet, but they're pretty damn good.

And they're in first place, albeit in the mediocre AL Central division. This team has had no less than 12 players make their major league debut this year, most recently Braden Montgomery, who had two hits in each of his first two games in the big leagues, including a walk-off home run in his debut (he's only the fifth player in history to pull this off). They probably don't have the pitching to contend all season, but they're a fun watch. Especially when Munetaka Murakami returns from injury; he had 20 home runs before the end of May. And then there's Kyle Teel, a terrific catcher who's been hurt all season. It's a pretty good lineup without these two; if the Sox get them back they might be fearsome.

You may want to scope them out.