One thing the White Sox can learn from each Chicago team

The Chicago White Sox are looking to be the best pro team in Chicago and they can learn from mistakes made by other teams in the city.

The Chicago White Sox are hoping that they are going to be a very good team soon. They have the roster to build on as they are mostly highly talented kids. They have all of the faith in the world to keep seeing them develop into elite players. They actually have a chance to be one of the best teams in baseball once it finally returns.

They also have a chance to claim the throne as the best of the five major sports teams in the city of Chicago. There are the Chicago Cubs, Chicago Blackhawks, Chicago Bulls, and Chicago Bears to compete with. Right now, they are an unknown commodity because they haven’t done anything yet. All of the hype surrounding the White Sox simply comes from speculation. They need to go out and prove it now that the talent can come together.

All of those other Chicago teams have had success and failures to some degree over the last few seasons. The White Sox are no different. This city needs a winner because of the fact that it is one of the best sports towns in the world. The fans in this town are so passionate about their teams so seeing the White Sox be the best of them would be really cool.

There are some things, positive or negative that the White Sox organization can learn from the other four teams. Here is one thing that they can take away from each of them and use it to their advantage:

Chicago Blackhawks

The Chicago Blackhawks have been very successful and very unsuccessful in the last decade or so. They won the Stanley Cup in 2010, 2013, and 2015. That was about as close as you can get in the salary capped NHL to a dynasty. Then after the 2017 season concluded with a sweep by the Nashville Predators, the Hawks fell off a cliff. They haven’t made the playoffs since and haven’t won a playoff round since winning the Stanley Cup Final in ’15.

If there was one thing the White Sox can learn from the Hawks, it is how and how not to build around your superstar players. The Hawks did a great job building around star young players like Jonathan Toews, Patrick Kane, and Duncan Keith early on. Then, they started to make boneheaded decisions that led to the fall of what could have been an even longer dynasty.

The White Sox can learn from that. With young superstars like Yoan Moncada, Eloy Jimenez, and Luis Robert to build around, the White Sox can take note of how the Hawks did that. Where they can learn from their mistakes, is when they go to evaluate the roster in a few seasons. The depth in any organization is the most important part so the White Sox need to do a better job than the Hawks did at keeping that depth in place.

Chicago Bulls

The Chicago Bulls are currently the biggest dumpster fire in Chicago. They are not good on the court and they really don’t have the leadership in place that makes anyone feel comfortable that they are going to be able to pull out of it. Gar Forman and John Paxson have been running the show for a while now and they haven’t had very much success. Fans have been pretty vocal about these two still running the show after a long time of dealing with ineptitude.

So how can the White Sox learn from this organization? Well, the answer easily described is to say that the White Sox should just do the exact opposite of everything the Bulls do. The real answer is that they should learn from the Bulls’ mistake of keeping people too long. “GarPax” should have been fired a long time ago but they show no sign of making a front office move. They have also probably kept head coach Jim Boylen too long as well. This is not a recipe for success.

If there is someone in the White Sox organization that needs to go, the White Sox should not hesitate. Fans and the players shouldn’t have to deal with leaders that can’t get it done. The Bulls refuse to make a change in the front office for whatever reason and it basically says that they don’t care about the fans or winning. The White Sox, hopefully, are able to move on from people who can’t get the job done in any position within the organization.

Chicago Cubs

The Chicago Cubs are the other Major League Baseball team in the city. Baseball is the only sport with two teams in Chicago so the summers are a lot of fun between the two fanbases. It is only a rivalry because of the fans but neither team’s outcomes affect the other unless they are playing each other in the regular season. It is nothing more than two businesses in the eyes of each team’s front office.

The thing that the White Sox can learn from them is how important developing pitching is. The Cubs have been pretty awful at developing pitching over their run. Right now, they have Jon Lester, Yu Darvish, Jose Quintana, Kyle Hendricks, and Tyler Chatwood slated to be their starting five. Lester, Darvish, and Chatwood were acquired in free agency. Jose Quintana came over in a trade with the White Sox while Hendricks went to the Cubs in the Ryan Dempster trade. Hendricks only ever played for the Cubs so they deserve credit for him panning out but outside of him, everyone else came from the outside.

Lucas Giolito, Dylan Cease, and Michael Kopech are in the same shoes as Hendricks. They were acquired in trades but the White Sox still had to develop them into MLB starters. It is so important to develop pitching and the White Sox need to be much better than the Cubs were in that department.