The White Sox entered a four-game series against the Yankees with a 48-85 record and 29 games remaining. A 15-14 finish would keep them under 100 losses, but players and the manager downplayed the significance of that threshold. Rookie pitcher Shane Smith dismissed framing the season as successful for merely avoiding 100 losses. Veteran outfielder Michael A. Taylor said finishing under 100 means little unless the club improves and learns from the season, emphasizing correct process over a numerical benchmark. Rookie manager Will Venable said the team wants to win every game and that the 100-loss mark "exists" but will not be a topic of conversation.
"I don't think anyone would be like, 'Hey, it's a successful year if we don't lose 100 games,' " pitcher Shane Smith said, sounding rather unimpressed by the idea.
"I don't think it's going to change much if it's 100 or 97 if we didn't get any better, didn't learn anything from this season," he said. "It's more about going about it the right way, to me. If we stay under 100, great, but it's kind of like this threshold that doesn't mean anything to me at the end of the day."
"Of course, no one wants to lose 100 games," Venable said. "But we're trying to win every game because we want to win every game. I don't think [100] will come up as a topic of conversation with us, but it certainly exists."
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