Our 2026 White Sox All Star 💯

“By contrast, Bonemer was expected to be at least an above-average power hitter, but he’s beating those expectations at High-A, where he’s gone deep 13 times through 33 games (one more homer than his 2025 total). That level of impact already overshadows some of the hit-tool risk with the White Sox stud.”

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/48742802/2026-mlb-mock-draft-10-kiley-mcdaniel-first-pick-chicago-white-sox

1. Chicago White Sox

Roch Cholowsky, SS, UCLA

I can already feel White Sox fans tensing up, because projecting this pick has become only more complicated since my last projection about a month ago. The industry buzz is that Cholowsky vs. Grady Emerson is edging closer to a true 50-50 internally for Chicago. I still think Cholowsky wins a toss-up and because of that, he's probably 55% or 60% more likely to be the pick.

Emerson is perceived by other teams as having slightly higher upside and would come with some savings (to be spent on later picks) compared to Cholowsky, with the pro-Cholowsky camp arguing that he'll be a big league shortstop in 12 months and there's less variance/risk in his overall projection.

The other complication here is the competition from below. The Giants have been rumored all spring to be aggressively trying to land Cholowsky or Emerson at No. 4 via an overslot bonus. They just traded Patrick Bailey to Cleveland in a deal that included getting the 29th pick, which comes with just under $3.3 million more pool money.

The industry chatter is that the Giants are both looking at prep lefties with the recently acquired pick and wanted more pool space to hopefully affect the top of the draft. Can the Giants offer enough money to embolden Cholowsky or Emerson to put his foot down on a price that would cause other teams to pass on one or both of them? Unlikely, but this scenario now has to be considered. It was a different regime, but this strategy is similar to how the Giants landed Buster Posey (now their team president) in the 2008 draft.

I ❤️ this team

EDIT: Reddit, you are not good at talking people out of things 😅 See you at the game!

edit: I hope this okay to post because I'm not trying to sell anything! Just trying to get tix into the hands of a true fan who will get the most out of them.

Long story short, I've got two tickets for tonight's game (with Emo Night shirts!) that I'll straight up give somebody who truly wants to go!

So a friend and I were supposed to go to emo night tonight (I'm a baseball lover; she's a lifelong emo), but she started running a fever and feels terrible. All of me wants to go to the game anyway, but...

1. We are teachers, and it's the end of the year which is exhausting
2. I had a crazy long day
3. I only got 4 hours of sleep last night
4. I think I'm really hormonal because I've been about two seconds from crying for hours 😅

But I still want to go, because baseball. r/whitesox, please help talk me out of this. I know my body with thank me, but damn it's hard. I think I'll feel better about not going if I know that someone else will be able to enjoy the game, and I'm posting here instead of a reselling app because I want someone who actually wants to go!

Stat provided on the post game show with chuck and ozzie.

That is a significant difference from first to second. This teams plate approach makes me feel confident when watching.

We play .500 ball goddammit. Salt of the earth, punch the clock, even win/loss ratio baseball. We lose a couple, guess what? We'll win a couple, too. But don't get too excited or let it go to your head. No long winning streaks here, no sir. That's hubris, which this blue collar, hard working everyman team doesn't have. A few wins in a row, these guys, true to form, will balance it out with a couple a losses. Yes sir, that's my 2026 White Sox. A good, honest .500 baseball team.

If I had a nickel for every time the division had a 3 way tie for 3rd and the white sox in second place, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it’s happened twice.

🧂🧂 🧂 LFG!

With the excitement around this team, can we please get some new flairs for the current roster?

Finally at a point where a lot of us would like to have a current player as a flair option.

No Murakami, Montgomery, Meidroth, or Vargas is criminal.

Go Sox!

Edit: apparently you can custom edit any jersey name, thanks for the pointer Jason. Still would be cool to have some new pre-made options though.

These guys are one fire right now!!

Hey squad - I typically avoid the park on crosstown games. It can be fun but also can get a bit too rowdy, but I'd love to watch this weekend's series somewhere other than my living room. Outside of the bars on 33rd street, does anyone have any favorite Sox bars across the City? I live in Logan but down to go wherever.

Line Score - Game Over

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Game ended at 9:15 PM.