https://www.fangraphs.com/depthcharts.aspx?position=Team

Are the White Sox actually ahead?

Accounting error? 

The hitting is really going to improve that much?  One can understand subtracting Fedde and Crochet I guess on the pitching side.

And yet Colorado is listed on top of Sox...with 46+ fWAR still available from remaining FAs like Bregman and Alonso.

Edited February 4, 20251 yr by caulfield12

https://www.mlb.com/news/most-improved-mlb-team-entering-2025

Mets really "won the offseason" over Dodgers in terms of fWAR added...but LA still way out ahead overall.

Guardians Twins Tigers Royals all bunched up together as well...

Edited February 4, 20251 yr by caulfield12

"On the other hand, it also can’t envision a scenario where the White Sox finish .500. In 1,000 simulated 2025 seasons, PECOTA has the Sox topping out at 78 wins.

When you scroll back up to the standings, it seems like the hopes of returning to the land of normal terrible teams lies in the run column. PECOTA has the 2025 White Sox scoring 631 runs, which is the worst in the American League, yet a spectacular improvement from 2024, when they scored just 507 runs and underperformed even the most ridiculous imagined set of circumstances."

https://soxmachine.com/2025/02/pecota-once-again-hates-the-white-sox-less-than-you-do/

Edited February 4, 20251 yr by caulfield12

https://www.baseballprospectus.com/standings/

PECOTA predicted standings...feels like 60+ wins would take a minor miracle or the best coaching job in history.

Yet another prediction system putting the Twins on top, by the way.

Poor Rockies fans...Charlie Blackmon now in their front office.

Edited February 4, 20251 yr by caulfield12