2 White Sox players who have redeemed themselves and 1 who hasn’t

The Chicago White Sox have had a very bad season for themselves in 2022. They are over .500 which isn’t something that they can always say but that is a very low standard for a team that says that they are good enough to win the World Series.

General manager Rick Hahn has failed to make the necessary upgrades needed to improve the roster from the team that was so good in 2021 but came up short in the playoffs.

Owner Jerry Reinsdorf also kept Rick Hahn from getting his manager to manage the team as he forced Tony La Russa on all of us. He has mostly been a bad owner of this team and this is the latest example:

Tony had an opportunity to prove that Jerry was right for doing that and he failed as well. In fact, you can argue that Tony La Russa is the biggest reason that the White Sox sit just below the playoff line.

It has been a miserable year for all of those guys but there is still time to get it together. Winning the World Series is no longer the goal as they are not good enough. However, they can finish strong, make the postseason, and get ready for a big 2023 if they are smart.

The players are not absolved from blame either. Most of the roster could be better. There are some players who exceeded expectations and some that have come up short. So far this season, there are two guys who redeemed themselves and one who has not:

The Chicago White Sox should take a good hard look at their roster before 2023.

Leury Garcia

Unfortunately, Leury Garcia didn’t have that good of a season in 2021. He hit a couple of extremely clutch home runs throughout the year and none were bigger than his go-ahead (which ended up being the game-winning) home run in their first home playoff game.

Besides that, he really doesn’t have much value to the team outside of the fact that he can play multiple positions to eat up innings. He is not a winning player if he is an everyday player. You might be able to get away with him as your 26th man but you can do better than that.

The White Sox love this guy for whatever reason and he has been even worse in 2022 than he was in 2021. He had a chance to prove that he was worth the contract that he was given and he became a player that should never be playing.

Everything about his game is detrimental to the Chicago White Sox these days. It makes it even worse when Tony La Russa puts him in situations where you would put star players. He has hit in the top four of this lineup a few times this season and it has been disgraceful.

Garcia’s WAR of -0.8 tells you everything you need to know about his production. To say that he hasn’t redeemed himself would be an understatement.

It is good to know that a couple of White Sox players redeemed themselves after 2021 but there are quite a few that took steps backward after tough 2021s as well. In 2023, there are also going to be a lot of players trying to redeem themselves for bad 2022 seasons but that is a whole new topic.