The Chicago White Sox are the first team in Major League Baseball to clinch their division. They will be playing the playoffs as a division winner and they likely won’t have the top seed in the American League. That means that they won’t have the winner of the Wild Card game in the first round of the postseason.
If the season ended right now, they would face the Houston Astros on the road. A lot of people, however, are talking as if it is a lock for the White Sox to match up against them. That is not the case.