I really think they make a big run in the second half to win the division. They seem to be getting healthy and players who were terrible will return to their career norms.

I hope they have a plan to manage Kopech's innings. He's already at 20% of his modest career highs and has shown fatigue lately. He needs to be skipped over a few times throughout the next 70 games and his innings each outing strictly limited.

I really think they make a big run in the second half to win the division. They seem to be getting healthy and players who were terrible will return to their career norms.

I hope they have a plan to manage Kopech's innings. He's already at 20% of his modest career highs and has shown fatigue lately. He needs to be skipped over a few times throughout the next 70 games and his innings each outing strictly limited.

The thing is the Sox don't even need to win the division, they just need to get into the playoffs and be healthy.

If Lynn, Giolito, and Cease are healthy and pitching to their potential, that is the best 1-2-3 in the AL for the short series in the first round.

In the next round they can add Kopech and Cueto, and that's the deepest 5 man rotation in the AL.

If the Sox don't win the division, they aren't making the playoffs. A wild card team is not likely to come out of the AL Central.

We've maybe overlooked that the Twins did not play well over last weekend and have not played well for a month. In other words, the division is putrid and the Sox ending up on top of it isn't much of an accomplishment.

If the Sox don't win the division, they aren't making the playoffs. A wild card team is not likely to come out of the AL Central.

Also, Cueto > Lynn right now. Forget skipping Kopech. Skip Lynn because he sucks right now. Its because of his two shit starts that the Sox didn't ride into the break on a 7 game winning streak.

the division is putrid and the Sox ending up on top of it isn't much of an accomplishment.

The only reason they’re not sellers right now is the division is a steaming pile.

The Sox have not been soo successful in my lifetime that I will sneeze at a division title

Six of the last nine game the Sox play are against the Twins: @Minne, @ Padres, VS Twins. Not breaking any news, but its going to come down to those final games.

It would be very White Sox of them to clinch the division by winning game 161, put the B squad out there to finish the season, then lose again 3-1 in the ALDS.

Right now, I see a team that seems totally incapable of beating a good team in a 5 or 7 game series. I don't see that changing in the last two and a half months. Their pitching might be fine, but they're not going to score if they don't hit homeruns, and they're just not going to hit enough of those.

Here's my major problem with this team, and I don't really blame LaRussa as it seems to be organizational. Ozzie and Ventura did the same thing.

This team has been built to just slug the living shit out of the opposing team. Granted, they have had a lot of injuries and the optimum lineup has rarely if ever been in tact. Nonetheless, you have a team that has been built around hitting the baseball.

So you won't hear me complain about defensive shortcomings. That's a tradeoff that was made in assembling the team. We have all these sluggers and we'll live with the mediocre defense and a lot of defensive errors and we'll just slug our way past them. Okay, fine. That's one way to build a team.

But here's the problem. They constantly make defensive errors and give the other team extra outs and runs that shouldn't have scored. But then when they get on offense where they're supposed to slug their way over the defensive errors, they are being compromised by sacrifice bunts and giving up outs on the bases. So you have the worst of all possible worlds.

They have good pitching. If they want to play pitch and putt on offense, sacrificing with two runners on, stealing for no good reason, etc. they should build a team that can lock down on defense and try to win games 2-1 and 3-2. Instead, we get terrible defense and the potentially slugging offense is taken out of its game by constantly giving the other team free outs.

Giolito goes tonight. For those who like a little action, he's given up 1 run in 13.1 innings against cleveland this year and is going on extra rest. Meanwhile, Quantrill has given up 8 in 12.1 innings to the white sox.

It's selling time. This team might luck into making the playoffs, they are not good enough to win the whole thing.