South Aspect Mailbag: 2022 Season Put up Mortem

The 2022 baseball season is coming to a detailed, and for all intents and functions, it is already come to an finish for the White Sox. After a whirlwind offseason the place it was unclear if we might even have baseball in 2022, the Chicago White Sox got here into the season with large expectations and ended it being one of many extra disappointing tales within the sport.

Lately, a handful of Sox On thirty fifth contributors appeared again on the 2022 Chicago White Sox and gave their ideas on the season as a complete.

What Are Your Ideas on the 2022 Season General?

Jordan Lazowski | Editor-In-Chief

It is a season by which the group didn’t make the playoffs in the midst of a proclaimed competition window. Due to that, it is a failed season, and there isn’t any possible way round that truth. The distractions off the sphere had been aplenty, and the standard of play on the sphere did not even match the flawed, however extra profitable, group in 2021. Actually, although, there’s an excessive amount of work to do for 2023 for the entrance workplace to sit down and dwell on this season an excessive amount of.

Adam Kaplan | Senior Contributor

This previous season might be essentially the most upset and pissed off I’ve ever been as a White Sox fan. 2006 was annoying, however a minimum of the offense confirmed up for a lot of the season and the membership gained 90 video games. 2015 can also be in competition for many aggravating, however the purpose this season has been even worse of a letdown was that “The Rebuild” was imagined to be completely different. Followers had seen the White Sox attempt to fail earlier than, however the group was lastly going to win the fitting approach. The way in which we had seen the Chicago Cubs lately succeed at doing. We suffered via 4+ years of a purposefully dangerous product on the sphere, solely to finish up with this?! Simply devastating.

 

Justin Salgado | Contributor

To sum up the season in two phrases: wasted potential. The Sox threw a season down the drain in what was imagined to be a aggressive window. A scarcity of urgency, poor fundamentals, and a boatload of accidents had been the Sox undoing this yr. The Sox are undoubtedly baseball’s greatest disappointment in 2022, and now enter an offseason stuffed with uncertainty.

Nico Andrade | Contributor

It was an entire disappointment. The Sox stumbled out of the gate, however nobody might have imagined that come September they’d be combating for second place within the AL Central, on the surface wanting in. It was a disappointment, to say the least.

Thatcher Zalewski | Contributor

The 2022 White Sox season was very disappointing. A group that got here into the yr with World Collection aspirations goes to overlook the playoffs. This yr for the White Sox was the definition of underwhelming. The group might by no means appear to proper the ship when it got here to overcoming obstacles. After a first-round exit in 2021, you’d assume the group would come out hungrier the next season to avenge that playoff loss. Nevertheless, that wasn’t the case for the White Sox this yr.

Duke Coughlin | Contributor

Disappointing, however in hindsight, not all that stunning. This group confirmed obtrusive flaws in 2021 {that a} good majority of us selected to disregard and virtually all of them got here again to chunk the Sox within the worst approach possible. Accidents, lack of energy, lack of depth, questionable bullpen administration, and no true fifth starter to begin the season made the gradual begin almost insurmountable.

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