If you’re looking for other reasons for the White Sox’ surprising watchability besides Rick Renteria’s magic touch, you can point to Avisail Garcia and Jose Abreu. They both reached rare franchise benchmarks with their reliability, and their day-in, day-out production stabilized the Sox despite extreme volatility elsewhere in the lineup, especially after other veterans departed.
When poking around Baseball-Reference.com’s Play Index, you get an idea of how hard it is to perform at their level (especially Abreu’s). And when you look at the rest of the lineup and search for their precedents, it puts the Sox’ two remaining above-average hitters in even starker relief.