Ranking the Most Depressed MLB Fanbases So Far in 2024 Season | News, Scores, Highlights, Stats, and Rumors

With one World Series title (2005) and just eight postseason appearances dating back to 1920, it has never been a particularly great time to be a Chicago White Sox fan.

Even by this franchise's low-bar standards, though, things are particularly bleak these days.

Their M.O. for the better part of a century has been languishing in sub-mediocrity—not terrible, but not good, either. You have to go back to 1931-32 to find the last (and only) time they had a sub-.400 winning percentage in consecutive seasons.

But after going 61-101 (.377) last year, the White Sox are well on pace for the worst season in franchise history, currently sitting at 14-30 (.318) even after a recent flourish of wins.

They also traded away ace Dylan Cease in mid-March when he had two years of team control remaining—all but outright conceding they have no intentions of contending in 2025, either.

From afar, we applauded the Cease move, as we did the decisions to trade away Gregory Santos in February, Aaron Bummer in November and the collection of Lucas Giolito, Reynaldo López, Lance Lynn, Joe Kelly, Kendall Graveman, Keynan Middleton and Jake Burger at last summer's deadline. It all helped them revamp what had been a terrible farm system, improving to the third-best in baseball, per our Joel Reuter's rankings from one month ago.

However, let me tell you as someone who sat in the DMV area and watched the Nationals crater and trade away the likes of Juan Soto, Max Scherzer, Trea Turner and more to expedite their rebuild in recent years that making smart long-term moves provides little to no solace in the short term.

We can, from the outside, start to see a brighter tomorrow for the White Sox, but they're still stuck under a years-long rain cloud.

That said, if they trade away Luis Robert Jr. this summer and/or take any steps closer to relocating the franchise to Nashville, things could get considerably more depressing on the Southside.