The White Sox start a homestand in one of the best possible ways to start a homestand: Taking on another patsy, and better, one that is even more recently demoralized. The Twins gave up on the 2025 season in dramatic and embarrassing fashion (no, not a White Flag debacle but a series of offloads that left half of the roster open to begin August), and over the last 10 games are actually a game worse (2-8) than the woeful White Sox (3-7).
But let’s not get too overworked about passing Minny in the standings.
After all, the White Sox are just 8 1/2 games better than the Colorado Rockies and are 13 worse than anyone else in the AL (yeah, that means the Twins and A’s, tied for 13th-worst in the AL). In fact, the White Sox are on pace right now to lose 105 games, one off of the second-worst mark in franchise history. Sit down a sec: This White Sox team will plausibly lose 100 for the third straight season (and no, the club had never even lost back-to-back 100s until 2024) and could well chase the most losses in baseball since 1899 with the second-most losses in franchise history.
Excited about tonight’s game yet?
All of this is to say that the White Sox have seven games remaining against a wounded and reeling (and let’s face it, one entirely predictable Byron Buxton injury away from being about a Double-A club) Twins team. If the South Siders are going to evade 106 losses in 2025, fattening up on the Twin Cities Doughboys is gonna be the easiest way to do so.
In White Sox roster news, the tired Josh Rojas experiment, which somehow lasted into later August and proved that the best way to tell whether your warmed-over career is REALLY over is to come to the White Sox and fail, is over. Korey Lee, victim of circumstance and the weird rule that seems to say three catchers on a roster when you want your two rookie studs in the lineup every day is a bad thing, is back. Expect to see Kyle Teel and Edgar Quero in the same lineup just about every night for the final six weeks.
Aaron Civale, picked off the scrap heap and charged with eating innings or else, throws for the White Sox tonight. He’s been just as bad in Chicago as he had been in Milwaukee to start the season, which is to say he’s about as bad as every other White Sox starter.
Lucky you, you got me writing up the game tonight. So snap it down for some snark, if not some statistical analysis that might want to turn in your White Sox cap for good. Gametime is 6:40 p.m. CT, and it appears to be a free game on MLB.com if you’re out of market or still confused by CHSN.
