As the new year approaches, we're counting down the top White Sox stories from 2018.
As of this writing, we still don’t know where Bryce Harper and Manny Machado will be playing when the 2019 season starts.
But the White Sox being in the thick of the pursuits of the top two free agents on this winter’s market perhaps generated more excitement in the fan base than anything else that happened during 2018.
While Machado had long been desired by a certain segment of Twitter-using White Sox fans, the inclusion of Harper’s name in Jon Morosi’s expectation-changing report during the GM Meetings in early November made things totally different.