Comments on: Defining Success: The 2017 Chicago White Sox

By: South Side - Baseball Prospectus

South Side - Baseball Prospectus — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 07:12:07 +0000

[…] went back and re-read my Opening Day column from last season and it said that exact thing. The best indicator of success for the White Sox was seeing enough […]

By: South Side - Baseball Prospectus

South Side - Baseball Prospectus — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 05:02:39 +0000

[…] losses and more about an oft repeated term: progress. You may remember our own Collin Whitchurch writing as much this time last year. In this piece we’ll take a look at what progress means to one very […]

By: Nick Schaefer

Nick Schaefer — Thu, 06 Apr 2017 15:08:48 +0000

The thrust of the article is that progress for key individual players for the future is the most important thing, so I’m not really sure where the disagreement comes in.

By: Marty34

Marty34 — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 19:44:06 +0000

I think we’ll get a pretty good idea of this front office’s acumen by the 2017 performances of Giolito, Collins, and Fulmer.

By: Russ

Russ — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 15:02:48 +0000

You are getting way ahead of things.

To continue the house building analogy, the ground floor cannot possibly be completed in 2017 because the teardown of the existing slum isn’t completed yet. Only when Frazier, Robertson, Shields, and Melky are gone can you consider the teardown complete. While the teardown is going on they are still drawing up the architectural plans and working on the budget.

In 2018 the digging of the foundation can begin and barring any unforeseen issues with the soil, it is possible the foundation can be poured and cured by the end on 2018. The ground floor subfloor and framing will be complete by 2019 at the earliest and if things go well maybe the roof can be put on by then, too. Maybe by the end of 2020 we can consider filing the occupancy permit.

Competitiveness begins in 2021. And that only happens if they don’t screw up any June drafts between now and then.