Jeff Passan

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296 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2026 last heard 5d ago

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Blair & Barker · Pitching Plans, Playoff Pushes, and CBA Clashes · 17 Sep 2026 podcast

That they were in position to, two years after they lost a record number of games, be a playoff team, which is an incredible turnaround, but that they blew the opportunity on account of a starting pitching group that just absolutely cratered at the end.

And yet,

I think if you're a White Sox fan, whatever the disillusionment and disappointment is over the end of the season, it's at least mitigated some by the fact that a majority of these guys are quite young and that they are going to be back and that they're going to be adding Rock Cholowski, the number one overall pick to it.

And they've got Caleb Bonamer, another infielder who's got 30 plus homers in the minor leagues this year.

And that,

Uh, there's just, you know, Hagan Smith is going to transition to the rotation and, uh,

should be a force there at some point.

The White Sox have things lined up pretty good going forward.

However disappointing this year could be, and it could be quite disappointing, at least you got the future.

Yeah, the only way to do it is to receive.

Well, okay, I take it back.

You can receive.

So during, for example, the postseason, in every round, the highest seed could play the lowest seed.

And I suppose that's reasonable.

That wouldn't necessarily solve this year what the issue is.

I think you could just seed by record, but at that point, you're essentially saying winning a division doesn't have any tangible or meaningful benefit.

Aside from maybe that if you're in a really bad division, you could get in with a worse record than a team that's

But that's just so – the outcome of that is so rare.

This situation is just – it's tough because I do think that the Jays, the Yankees – excuse me, the Rays, the Yankees, messed up the continent there.

The Rays, the Yankees, and the Red Sox are the three best teams in the American League this year.

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