Chicago White Sox: The youth movement is in full effect and fully paid

Are the Chicago White Sox really that good now?

In short, no. They aren’t that good now. We don’t how good they are.

The Chicago White Sox are taking a risk that many teams have done in the past. Invest in your young guys and compliment them with veterans that are at their peak performance level or just barely on the way down.

Take Keuchel for example. He has been a consistent gold glove pitcher when he was with the Astros and added a couple of trips to the All-Star game and a Cy Young award in 2015.

Keuchel is unique because while velocity continues to tick upward, he uses movement and location to his advantage much like a Jamie Moyer or Mark Buehrle did in their heydays.

The reason Keuchel is on this team and in this rotation is that their best pitchers are young with little service time. Giolito, Kopech, Reynaldo Lopez, and Cease are all in their early to mid-twenties while Keuchel enters his age 32 season. He has postseason experience and the knowledge of being part of a winning organization.

That’s how younger players get better faster. They get support and advice from the older players and more often than not it makes them better for the long run.

The White Sox have been rebuilding for the past few seasons and last year had a much-improved season finishing 72-89; despite it being 20 games behind the Indians for second place.

The White Sox have an opportunity to get the narrative started early on their rebuild and if it works out, it may even affect player contracts as we know it.