Chicago White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf is addressing his team’s “embarrassing season.” The White Sox clocked 121 losses and just 41 wins in the 2024 season, shattering an infamous post-1900 record set by the New York Mets in 1962 of 120 losses.

Getting them just from laughingstocks to respectably bad — let alone a winning team again — is going to require a shift in philosophy from the top of the organization.

At the very end of an awful season for the Chicago White Sox, there was a small sign of hope in the Deep South. That’s where the Birmingham Barons — Chicago’s Double-A