According to MLB.com, the Chicago White Sox are entering 2025 with the top two left-handed pitching prospects in all of baseball with Noah Schultz and Hagen Smith.

Colson Montgomery, ranked by MLB Pipeline as the No. 4 White Sox prospect and No. 37 overall, could break camp as the team’s starting shortstop. The 22-year-old left-handed hitter clearly will be a key figure at the Major League level for the 2025 White Sox,

Rick Renteria was the manager, Luis Robert Jr. hadn’t yet played a major-league game and Yasmani Grandal and Dallas Keuchel were among the big free-agent additions the last time the Chicago White Sox held SoxFest.

Ahead of SoxFest Live, which begins Friday, general manager Chris Getz provided a look-ahead to the 2025 season throughout the organization.

The White Sox have a goal to win games, just like Major League Baseball’s other 29 teams. Coming off a 121-loss season, though, their success in 2025 ultimately might not be measured in finishing .500 or even winning 70-to-75 times.

Venable and White Sox General Manager Chris Getz held a pre-Sox Fest pow-wow Thursday afternoon, before the festivities officially kick off on Friday.

Every team across the majors is selling hope to their fans: some are selling it in a more immediate fashion, in the form of active offseasons full of free-agent signings and trade acquisitions. Others,

The Braves also signed Bryan De La Cruz to a one-year deal Dec. 16 to add outfield depth but otherwise had a quiet offseason before the addition of Profar. Profar, a switch-hitter, will join Michael Harris, Jarred Kelenic, De La Cruz and Eli White as Atlanta's top outfielders. Acuña could be ready to join the team in May or June.

The Sox hired McKnight to help improve a broadcast that Awful Announcing's fan poll last July rated as the most disliked local call in MLB.

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A manager for the Mets for two seasons in the 1990s who played 10 seasons as a catcher for the Dodgers and Angels has passed away at age 83.