3 mistakes the White Sox are going to make with their roster in 2024
The Chicago White Sox are going to make a lot of mistakes with their roster in 2024.
The Chicago White Sox are not expected to be a very good team here in 2024. They are thought of as one of the worst teams in the American League.
They executed what everyone thought was a very good rebuild. It started to pay dividends in 2020 when they made the playoffs for the first time in a decade.
It got even better when they won the division in 2021. Things started to fall apart after that and that led them to where they are today.
Ahead of Opening Day later this month, you can only hope that they aren't as embarrassing as it seems they are going to be.
These are a few roster mistakes that it sounds like they are going to make:
Garrett Crochet might be better served as a starter going forward
Garrett Crochet has had an interesting tenure with the Chicago White Sox. He came in right after being drafted because of the circumstances with COVID-19.
Following that, he was very good but had some injury troubles in his career. Now, he is back and looking as good as ever.
Crochet came out of college as a starter. He has yet to make a start in the MLB though which is starting to look like a mistake.
He has been a good reliever but now that he is healthy and the baseball world is back on schedule, it is time for him to be a starter again.
The White Sox will likely start him out of the bullpen though. Someone less talented/productive than him will likely be starting instead. That is bad news.
Oscar Colas is likely going to be handled the wrong way in 2024
The Chicago White Sox have not done right by Oscar Colas throughout his MLB career so far. He is not someone that they treated the right way over the years.
He is a very talented baseball player but their development of him has kept him from realizing his true potential up to this point.
Colas started last season at the big league level but he didn't get in the lineup a lot at first. After that, he played with the big club for far too long.
They allowed him to just sit there and get abused by Major League pitching throughout the first half of the season. It was way too late before they sent him to AAA.
Once he got to AAA, it was clear that his confidence was shaken. He never got back to the player that he was before the year began.
Now, it is pretty clear that they are going to make similar mistakes with him again this year. Whatever is worse for his development, you can count on them to do.
A smart team, at this point, would start him in AAA. If he plays well down there, you call him up and then let him figure it out from there. If he can't do it this time around, he isn't meant to be an MLB player.
Dylan Cease is going to be on the White Sox Opening Day roster
The Chicago White Sox have one clear best pitcher. His name is Dylan Cease. Yes, having him on the Opening Day roster is going to be a mistake.
It is not going to be a mistake because he doesn't deserve it. He is going to be the Opening Day starter because he's so good.
With that said, this is a mistake because it means they didn't trade him. He had a slow year last year considering he was a Cy Young runner-up the year prior but he is still good.
They are in danger of now diminishing his value even more though because he is going to be on a bad team again. That is not smart business.
Chicago should be trying to trade Dylan Cease as soon as they can. The fact that they haven't done it yet is not good.
Cease will be on the roster to start the season and that is a major mistake. We can only hope that it works out to the point where he gets his value back to it's peak but it is unlikely.
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