Can the White Sox Lose 120 Games?

The FanGraphs Newsletter, April 26, 2024 [READ IN BROWSER]( April 26, 2024 The White Sox have been cosplaying as a Deadball era team, hitting .189/.263/.292 and scoring barely over two runs per game. To put that into context, they have a 62 wRC+ as a team, a mark that has never been maintained for a full season by any big league club; the worst hitting team over a full season was the 1920 Philadelphia A’s, with a 68 wRC+. Even if we look at just the first 24 games of a season, the White Sox lineup is among the most inept since 1901. Teams were shut out an average of 10.3 times last year; these White Sox have been shut out eight times, meaning they’ve already been shut out half as many times as the offense that led the majors in shutouts last season, the Oakland A’s. Chicago is more than a third of the way toward matching the 2019 Marlins and 2022 Tigers for the highest single-season total of shutouts in the wild-card era, with 22. Let’s catch up quickly on the current AL Central projections in ZiPS. [READ MORE]( [San Francisco Giants Top 42 Prospects]( This system has 20,000 leagues of depth but is light up top. | by Eric Longenhagen and Travis Ice [Riley Greene Is Leading the League in Walks (For Now)]( There’s a Baba O’Riley joke to be made here, but we can’t all be Michael Baumann. | by Davy Andrews [Justin Slaten Is Confidently Becoming a Success Story in Boston]( The 26-year-old right-hander has excelled out of the Red Sox bullpen in his first big league season. | by David Laurila [Brice Turang’s Quantum Leap]( Milwaukee's second baseman has learned to hit, and Pat Murphy knows tomorrow's winning lottery numbers. | by Michael Baumann [Five Things I Liked (Or Didn't Like) This Week, April 26]( New stars, old stalwarts, and the 2024 version of an unstoppable force meeting an immovable object; there's a lot going on and it's all good. | by Ben Clemens [Top of the Order: Injuries to Snell and Bello Put Their Teams in a Bind]( The Giants and Red Sox will have their pitching depth tested over the next few weeks. Plus, let’s check in on Wyatt Langford. | by Jon Becker 🎧 [Effectively Wild Episode 2156: Pluses and Minuses]( [DOWNLOAD THE FANGRAPHS APP]( [FanGraphs & Effectively Wild Merch Is Now Available at BreakingT!]( [ORDER HERE]( [Can Aaron Judge turn around slow start to lead the Yankees?]( by Jorge Castillo, ESPN [‘Back to boring’: Chad Kuhl’s baseball comeback is a welcome return to ‘normal’]( by Stephen J. Nesbitt, The Athletic ($) [12 teams whose playoff odds have changed the most]( by Thomas Harrigan, MLB [@fangraphs]( [FanGraphs]( [FanGraphs]( [RSS]( [FORWARD]( [SUBSCRIBE]( Copyright © 2024 FanGraphs Inc, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you subscribed to the FanGraphs Newsletter. Our mailing address is: FanGraphs Inc 3017 N Underwood StArlington, VA 22213 [Add us to your address book]( Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](