Early impressions of the 2026 White Sox
The players are more resilient — and the roster decisions are anyone’s guess
Munetaka Murakami has bolstered the resilience of the 2026 White Sox. | (Photo by Sydney Schneider/MLB Photos via Getty Images) Two weeks into the season and the 2026 White Sox roller coaster already has been twisting us left, right, up and down. In such a tumultuous time, the Sox have swung between being swept to being the sweepers faster than Yermín Mercedes peaked and then abruptly retired from baseball in 2021.
Ah, such memorable times with Tony La Russa. After witnessing the highs and lows of such a small sample size, here are the extremely early, yet prevalent, themes that should be followed through the rest of the season. This Sox crew is a lot more resilient Now a full year removed from the horrors of 2024, this team is nowhere near cut from the same cloth.
Despite playing pitifully on Opening Day and starting 1-5, the Sox have proven that they won’t just roll over and take losses. As seen in their series against Toronto, the team knows how to step up. In the first two games of that series, the Sox lost but recovered the lead three times.
The second game perfectly encapsulates this: After capturing an early lead, the Jays put up two runs in the sixth, quickly tampering the mood. In what would otherwise have been a typical blown win, Munetaka Murakami and Colson Montogmery delivered clutch home runs to pull the Sox ahead, 4-2, in the bottom of the sixth. Even after the Jays cut the lead to one run in the seventh, the Sox capitalized on fielding errors to add two insurance runs in the eighth.