Brett Ballantini has written about baseball, basketball and sometimes hockey for the NBA, MLB, NHL, and Slam, Hoop, Sporting News, the Athletic, Sports Illustrated, South Side Hit Pen, Sox Populi, SB Nation and others. He was CSN Chicago’s Blackhawks beat writer when their 49-year Stanley Cup drought ended in 2009-10, and moved to the White Sox beat after that. Brett has run South Side Sox since 2018.
It’s time to lay it on the line and stand up for our picks to win (and, sometimes, lose) for the 2025 season. We detailed some of the reasoning for the most popular picks on our Sox Populi podcast earlier this week and is also touched on with our Opening Day Preview podcast, but here’s our full-on take, with everyone’s picks in.