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Better days on the South Side.
The Chicago White Sox swept the defending American League champion Toronto Blue Jays this past weekend, and during Sunday’s game they announced that Ozzie Guillén’s number 13 would be retired. Guillén, the 2005 World Series-winning manager who spent 13 seasons as the White Sox shortstop, becomes the first manager in franchise history to have his number retired (also the 13th honor of its kind on the South Side). When World Series hero Scott Podsednik delivered the news during the broadcast, Guillén lost it.
Things are looking up: The White Sox have won 61, 40, and 60 games the last three seasons. But there is hope for 2026 in the names Munetaka Murakami and Colson Montgomery. Murakami, the Japanese slugger on a two-year deal, continues to look like a guy the rest of the league was wrong about. Montgomery, the shortstop who finished fifth in AL Rookie of the Year voting last September, keeps flashing the kind of power that can make you forget about his strikeouts.
Or possibly not: The White Sox were swept in three games in Milwaukee to open the season, and then they took 1 of 3 in Miami against the Marlins. After sweeping the defending AL champs they’ve now dropped two straight to the Orioles to sit at 4-7. That’s a .364 winning percentage, actually a little below last year’s AL-worst .370. The ChiSox are a founding member of the American League, but their 125-year history includes an 88-year title drought (snapped by Guillén’s 2005 team). Will 2026 be more of the same for the Sox?
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