As things get better, the draft pick gets worse.
That’s the trajectory of a successful rebuild: utilizing high draft picks, which come from losing a lot of games, to win a bunch of games and stop picking at the top of the draft. The White Sox used the Nos. 4 and 3 picks in the last two drafts to take two players, Nick Madrigal and Andrew Vaughn, who they hope will be franchise cornerstones.
While the 89 losses from 2019 are nothing to crow about, the White Sox won’t be picking so high when the 2020 draft takes place next month.