Nick Baumgardner

Depending on the season that he has, could you possibly see Braden Montgomery in the big leagues at some point this season?

Maybe that's your center fielder in September.

Because I think for me, if you're the Chicago White Sox, your goal in 2026 is to be the 2025 Miami Marlins.

Where the Marlins were, they won 79 games.

A lot of people don't realize that.

But they were playing competitive baseball in September.

They were actually playing, spoiler, they were the team that knocked the New York Mets out of postseason contention that last weekend of the season.

You remember the photo after?

Yes.

They eliminated them?

Yes.

I love that.

See, that's what I'm here for.

Baseball needs more of that.

Because those are games where they're like, oh, we can play spoiler and win the most games we want in a minute.

Yeah, we're going to do that.

And so I think year two with Will Venable, that should be the White Sox goal.

Because you've already built the cultural foundation.

where there were a lot of positives that the White Sox could have taken from last year, despite, yes, they lost 102 games.

Nobody wants to do that.