Sure, relegation in baseball is a fantasy. Still, after a season like the White Sox have had and an even worse-looking immediate future, fantasy is about all we have to go with, so let’s do it.
What the heck is relegation?
For one thing, a really cool word. But more importantly, it’s a system where the worst teams at one level of a league get sent down a rung, and the best on the lower rung climb up. It’s used widely in countries with soccer teams in multiple levels, and right here at home, it’s common in all sorts of amateur sports, where the team at the bottom of the B League one season starts the next one in the C League — softball, bowling, probably even pickleball these days.