Good thing, too
I'm mystified that Rob Neyer is mystified about why the White Sox project to improve a lot this year. I didn't love their offseason, but the point to note about the Sox is that they stand to add a lot just by being less shitty in various places. Last year, for example, they got a .607 OPS from center field, worst in the American League by 55 points and 125 points below the league average. They also got a .684 OPS from second base, second worst in the AL and 76 points below league average. Mark Teahen, Andruw Jones and Juan Pierre will essentially be taking those at-bats, and while I'm not an admirer of any of them they're just not going to be anywhere near that bad. Since Jake Peavy will essentially be replacing Jose Contreras and Bartolo Colon (33 starts, 177 innings, 4.98 ERA) and Carlos Quentin was both injured and lousy last year, there are some more improvements. Meanwhile no one looks set for big decline. I don't know that the Sox will win 88, not least because they're short a bat, but they should certainly be better.
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Don't know if you care, but I'm not loving this one post per page thing. The site was a little better to look at when you could see if more than one new post was up.
The idea was that I was going to have one longer post per day, but I got pretty backed up with the main project I'm working on and so wasn't able to do that. Might return to it, though.
Regardless of posting frequency, it's the one post per page system that is irritating.