Some baseball teams rate a WOW factor. The White Sox instead rate a WAH factor.
WAH, a statistic reserved for teams with at least 121 losses, goes along with Baseball-Reference’s or FanGraph’s Wins Above Replacement, or WAR, or B-R’s less-often-used Wins Above Average, or WAA. While WAR is generally considered to have a zero base of 47 or so wins and WAA is based off 81 wins, WAH has a comfortably lower base of 41 wins, given last year’s record.
It is, therefore, Wins Above Horrible.
As the regular season approaches next week, it’s time to try to figure out whether the 2025 White Sox are apt to be better than the 2024 team, and, if so, by how much.