Calling it.

[caulfield12]

We are 2 1/2 out of a wild card spot. The season is like 50 games done and over 100 left. I think we still have a chance so dump the sky is falling routine please!

 

 

However, that very same argument could have been made the year of the White Flag trade.

 

We were just 3 1/2 games behind ONE team at that particular time, the Cleveland Indians, with a full two months of play left that season.

 

By my count, we currently have TEN American League teams all within 4 1/2 games of the wild card. If you want to add the Oakland A's, who are playing about as well as any team in baseball recently and have 4 solid starters and a "positive" runs scored/runs allowed differential (compared to, say, the Tigers, who are in negative territory but over .500 still)...then you have ELEVEN.

 

So which team had better odds of making the playoffs? The 2015 White Sox being better than ten other teams (without being able to add significant additional resources at the deadline in all likelihood because using our best trading chip would be another version of surrendering, and almost zero history of 2nd half comebacks) OR beating all FOUR teams ahead of them in the American League Central?

 

Or the 1997 Chicago White Sox?

 

The sky isn't falling, but it's also not like the odds are greatly in favor of the White Sox, either.

Edited June 4, 2015 by caulfield12