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.
Fifteen games in, and while the White Sox playing pace is just 43-119 over a 162-game season (hey! that’s an improvement! rebuild is back on!) there have been some encouraging signs:
- Miguel Vargas and Lenyn Sosa putting some thump into the ball, in both cases overdue and necessary, with Sosa carrying forward from his solid 2024 finish.