After an extensive look at the position players on the South Side, our focus now turns to the mound. According to FanGraphs, the White Sox had the 11th-best pitching staff in all of baseball despite essentially operating with a three-man starting rotation.
Regardless of this handicap, the Sox pitching staff was Top 10 in wins, runs allowed, ERA, ERA+, H/9, hits allowed, runs allowed, and stranding runners. The bullpen was very quietly the eighth-best in the league despite losing the team’s best reliever, Aaron Bummer, to the IL for the vast majority of the season.