started at South Side Sox in 2018 after 20 years of writing on basketball, baseball and hockey, including time on the Blackhawks and White Sox beats. Follow him on Twitter @BrettBallantini and email your site feedback to brettballantini@yahoo.com
In the past, I’ve done Value Surveys to get a gauge of how badly (or, well) money has been spent by the White Sox front office. But frankly, almost every team outside of weird clubs like the Rays most seasons end up running in the red, and it just becomes a case of big, ugly, gaudy numbers.