Ah, hindsight:
But the folks at Baseball Prospectus dropped the White Sox even one
notch lower. Their depth chart page, featuring a 2007 outlook for each
projected player on Ozzie Guillen's roster, casts this team with a
72-90 record for the upcoming season -- one of the worst marks in all
of baseball.
It's a breakdown that drew some interest among the members of the organization. It also brought about more smiles than ire. [...]
"Seventy-two and 90?" added an amused White Sox hitting coach Greg
Walker when informed of the prediction. "I'll go higher than 72 wins.
Predictions like that really don't enter our thought process. We know
what we have to do to win."
Of course, BPro was right for the wrong reasons -- they thought the starters would crash and the offense would be league-average, perhaps a little higher -- but this is still fun to look at.