As the new year approaches, we're counting down the top White Sox stories from 2018.
In a season that was always going to be about waiting, getting some payoff, some tangible proof of progress was huge.
Michael Kopech had been one of the biggest names of the White Sox rebuild since the second it started, one of the two big pieces to come back to the South Side in the trade that sent Chris Sale to Boston and kickstarted this whole thing. After he dominated at the Double-A level in 2017 and earned a late-season promotion to Triple-A Charlotte, many fans figured it wouldn't be long until they were watching him star in the majors.