South Facet Mailbag: 2022 Season Publish Mortem

October 1, 2022

The 2022 baseball season is coming to an in depth, and for all intents and functions, it is already come to an finish for the White Sox. After a whirlwind offseason the place it was unclear if we’d even have baseball in 2022, the Chicago White Sox got here into the season with big expectations and ended it being one of many extra disappointing tales within the sport.

Not too long ago, a handful of Sox On thirty fifth contributors seemed again on the 2022 Chicago White Sox and gave their ideas on the season as a complete.

What Are Your Ideas on the 2022 Season Total?

Jordan Lazowski | Editor-In-Chief

It is a season by which the crew didn’t make the playoffs in the course of a proclaimed competition window. Due to that, it is a failed season, and there is not any possible way round that reality. The distractions off the sector have been aplenty, and the standard of play on the sector did not even match the flawed, however extra profitable, crew in 2021. Actually, although, there’s an excessive amount of work to do for 2023 for the entrance workplace to sit down and dwell on this season an excessive amount of.

Adam Kaplan | Senior Contributor

This previous season might be probably the most upset and pissed off I’ve ever been as a White Sox fan. 2006 was annoying, however not less than the offense confirmed up for a lot of the season and the membership received 90 video games. 2015 can be in competition for many aggravating, however the motive this season has been even worse of a letdown was that “The Rebuild” was presupposed to be totally different. Followers had seen the White Sox attempt to fail earlier than, however the group was lastly going to win the correct manner. The way in which we had seen the Chicago Cubs just lately succeed at doing. We suffered by way of 4+ years of a purposefully unhealthy product on the sector, solely to finish up with this?! Simply devastating.

 

Justin Salgado | Contributor

To sum up the season in two phrases: wasted potential. The Sox threw a season down the drain in what was presupposed to be a aggressive window. An absence of urgency, poor fundamentals, and a boatload of accidents have been the Sox undoing this 12 months. The Sox are undoubtedly baseball’s greatest disappointment in 2022, and now enter an offseason filled with uncertainty.

Nico Andrade | Contributor

It was an entire disappointment. The Sox stumbled out of the gate, however nobody may have imagined that come September they’d be preventing for second place within the AL Central, on the skin wanting in. It was a disappointment, to say the least.

Thatcher Zalewski | Contributor

The 2022 White Sox season was very disappointing. A crew that got here into the 12 months with World Collection aspirations goes to overlook the playoffs. This 12 months for the White Sox was the definition of underwhelming. The crew may by no means appear to proper the ship when it got here to overcoming obstacles. After a first-round exit in 2021, you’d assume the crew would come out hungrier the next season to avenge that playoff loss. Nonetheless, that wasn’t the case for the White Sox this 12 months.

Duke Coughlin | Contributor

Disappointing, however in hindsight, not all that shocking. This crew confirmed evident flaws in 2021 {that a} good majority of us selected to disregard and virtually all of them got here again to chew the Sox within the worst manner conceivable. Accidents, lack of energy, lack of depth, questionable bullpen administration, and no true fifth starter to start out the season made the gradual begin almost insurmountable.

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