2020 White Sox Report Card: The Pitchers

PART TWO: THE PITCHERS

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.

There were certainly some sour moments, particularly due in part to a shockingly-mismanaged bullpen, and the…