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White Sox not adjusting high hopes for 2020: 'I'm still extremely optimistic'

Nobody used the word “playoffs” repeatedly Thursday. Maybe the point is they don’t have to anymore.

The White Sox spent all of spring training talking about their postseason expectations. Three months later, they were supposed to be showing whether those expectations were warranted or not. Instead, they’ve yet to play an inning of the 2020 season, and the most recent regular-season baseball they played finished off an 89-loss campaign.

But while it’s been an undoubtedly deflating stretch for White Sox fans, who were ready for their team to finally leap into the ranks of baseball’s contenders only to see the season postponed by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, a three-month layoff from baseball hasn’t diminished the expectations one bit on the South Side.