South Side Sox staff predictions for 2026!
It’s undoubtedly a better year for the White Sox — but how much better?
Per site tradition, we make our picks and lay them bare for all to see. And this year, 10 of us took on the challenge. Here are our section-by-section picks, which we’ll revisit and tabulate in October to reveal the best and worst.
And by all means, feel free to listen on four of our writers discussing their picks in our Sox Populi podcast, found on The Feed here on site: By all means, praise and chide in the comments — and feel free to chip in with your own prognostications, tough guys and gals. The Tigers and Mariners are clear division favorites in the AL, with a much tougher fight in the AL East. Over in the NL, it’s the Brewers, Mets and Dodgers looking fine in our eyes.
And yes, trust us, dear readers, site suspensions of at least a full week have been discussed for Hannah Filippo, David James and Joe Kiang-Resis. We’ll let you figure out why. The race for the AL’s best seems quite a fight, at least opposed to the NL.
In the case of league worsts, there is fight between two teams in both leagues — and in the AL, no one picked the White Sox! Novel. And yes, trust us, dear readers, a site suspension of at least a full year has been discussed for Hannah Filippo.