White Sox are Marching Towards History
But not necessarily in sync.
The White Sox losing streak has reached 19 games after their 6–2 loss to the Twins Saturday night. The headline says they are “marching” towards history. That term “marching” may be a little too complimentary. It’s more like a funny walk or stumble. While eclipsing the 1962 Mets record of 120 losses seemed like a long shot a month or so back, it’s now looking like real possibility. Maybe even a probability.
The team is now appreciably worse now than it was before the trade deadline
The Sox are an historically bad team, but for the first half of the season they had very good starting pitching, but that is no longer the case. Garrett Crochet has been an ace, but his workload has been reduced. The drop-off from what Crochet gave the Sox in the first half of the season and what his fill-in will give them is tremendous.
Erick Fedde had been a great second banana in the Sox rotation, even winning seven games for this woebegone team. Once again, what the Sox will trot out to the mound in lieu of the now departed Fedde amounts to cannon fodder.
In an especially painful turn of events, Dylan Cease recently pitched a no-hitter for the Padres. A couple of days after that, Drew Thorpe, the center piece in the…
