Series Preview: Guardians at White Sox

Weather permitting, the Guardians will open their home slate of games for the 2025 season against the Chicago White Sox today at 4:10PM EDT.

The Guardians enter the series with a 3-6 record after a disappointing end to a nine-game road trip to open their season. The White Sox enter with a 2-7 record, looking like a team that doesn’t have the juice to avoid another poor season, so far.

Brace yourself for some rough numbers (glossary of terms at the bottom of this article): the Guardians are 14th in MLB with a 98 wRC+ (23rd in BABIP with only a .246 so far, so MAYBE there’s some positive regression coming?), 28th in Baserunning Runs Above Average at -1, 25th in Defensive metric at -3.6, 30th in…