With half of their lineup remade, a strengthened and developing pitching staff, and a wacky new ad campaign to boot, the White Sox came out of the gate in 2008 ready to put the failures of 2007 in the rear view mirror. The prognosticators, however, were not sold. Tom Verducci called the White Sox the team most likely to disappoint in the AL:
The White Sox have much too far to go to make up ground on Detroit and Cleveland. This team lost 90 games last year, was outscored by 146 runs and is staring smack in the face of aging issues.