Chicago White Sox

126 seasons · 1901–2026 · 9,726–9,779 (.499) · 6 pennants · 3 World Series

Season by season

126 seasons, newest first. The year links to that season across all of baseball.

Year	Lg	Div	W	L	W–L%	Finish	R	RA	Result
2026	AL	—	72	65	.526	—	—	—
2025	AL	C	60	102	.370	5th	647	742
2024	AL	C	41	121	.253	5th	507	813
2023	AL	C	61	101	.377	4th	641	841
2022	AL	C	81	81	.500	2nd	686	717
2021	AL	C	93	69	.574	1st	796	636	Division
2020	AL	C	35	25	.583	2nd	306	246	Wild card
2019	AL	C	72	89	.447	3rd	708	832
2018	AL	C	62	100	.383	4th	656	848
2017	AL	C	67	95	.414	4th	706	820
2016	AL	C	78	84	.481	4th	686	715
2015	AL	C	76	86	.469	4th	622	701
2014	AL	C	73	89	.451	4th	660	758
2013	AL	C	63	99	.389	5th	598	723
2012	AL	C	85	77	.525	2nd	748	676
2011	AL	C	79	83	.488	3rd	654	706
2010	AL	C	88	74	.543	2nd	752	704
2009	AL	C	79	83	.488	3rd	724	732
2008	AL	C	89	74	.546	1st	811	729	Division
2007	AL	C	72	90	.444	4th	693	839
2006	AL	C	90	72	.556	3rd	868	794
2005	AL	C	99	63	.611	1st	741	645	World Series
2004	AL	C	83	79	.512	2nd	865	831
2003	AL	C	86	76	.531	2nd	791	715
2002	AL	C	81	81	.500	2nd	856	798
2001	AL	C	83	79	.512	3rd	798	795
2000	AL	C	95	67	.586	1st	978	839	Division
1999	AL	C	75	86	.466	2nd	777	870
1998	AL	C	80	82	.494	2nd	861	931
1997	AL	C	80	81	.497	2nd	779	833
1996	AL	C	85	77	.525	2nd	898	794
1995	AL	C	68	76	.472	3rd	755	758
1994	AL	C	67	46	.593	1st	633	498
1993	AL	W	94	68	.580	1st	776	664	Division
1992	AL	W	86	76	.531	3rd	738	690
1991	AL	W	87	75	.537	2nd	758	681
1990	AL	W	94	68	.580	2nd	682	633
1989	AL	W	69	92	.429	7th	693	750
1988	AL	W	71	90	.441	5th	631	757
1987	AL	W	77	85	.475	5th	748	746
1986	AL	W	72	90	.444	5th	644	699
1985	AL	W	85	77	.525	3rd	736	720
1984	AL	W	74	88	.457	5th	679	736
1983	AL	W	99	63	.611	1st	800	650	Division
1982	AL	W	87	75	.537	3rd	786	710
1981	AL	W	54	52	.509	3rd	476	423
1980	AL	W	70	90	.438	5th	587	722
1979	AL	W	73	87	.456	5th	730	748
1978	AL	W	71	90	.441	5th	634	731
1977	AL	W	90	72	.556	3rd	844	771
1976	AL	W	64	97	.398	6th	586	745
1975	AL	W	75	86	.466	5th	655	703
1974	AL	W	80	80	.500	4th	684	721
1973	AL	W	77	85	.475	5th	652	705
1972	AL	W	87	67	.565	2nd	566	538
1971	AL	W	79	83	.488	3rd	617	597
1970	AL	W	56	106	.346	6th	633	822
1969	AL	W	68	94	.420	5th	625	723
1968	AL	—	67	95	.414	8th	463	527
1967	AL	—	89	73	.549	4th	531	491
1966	AL	—	83	79	.512	4th	574	517
1965	AL	—	95	67	.586	2nd	647	555
1964	AL	—	98	64	.605	2nd	642	501
1963	AL	—	94	68	.580	2nd	683	544
1962	AL	—	85	77	.525	5th	707	658
1961	AL	—	86	76	.531	4th	765	726
1960	AL	—	87	67	.565	3rd	741	617
1959	AL	—	94	60	.610	1st	669	588	Pennant
1958	AL	—	82	72	.532	2nd	634	615
1957	AL	—	90	64	.584	2nd	707	566
1956	AL	—	85	69	.552	3rd	776	634
1955	AL	—	91	63	.591	3rd	725	557
1954	AL	—	94	60	.610	3rd	711	521
1953	AL	—	89	65	.578	3rd	716	592
1952	AL	—	81	73	.526	3rd	610	568
1951	AL	—	81	73	.526	4th	714	644
1950	AL	—	60	94	.390	6th	625	749
1949	AL	—	63	91	.409	6th	648	737
1948	AL	—	51	101	.336	8th	559	814
1947	AL	—	70	84	.455	6th	553	661
1946	AL	—	74	80	.481	5th	562	595
1945	AL	—	71	78	.477	6th	596	633
1944	AL	—	71	83	.461	7th	543	662
1943	AL	—	82	72	.532	4th	573	594
1942	AL	—	66	82	.446	6th	538	609
1941	AL	—	77	77	.500	3rd	638	649
1940	AL	—	82	72	.532	4th	735	672
1939	AL	—	85	69	.552	4th	755	737
1938	AL	—	65	83	.439	6th	709	752
1937	AL	—	86	68	.558	3rd	780	730
1936	AL	—	81	70	.536	4th	920	873
1935	AL	—	74	78	.487	5th	738	750
1934	AL	—	53	99	.349	8th	704	946
1933	AL	—	67	83	.447	6th	683	814
1932	AL	—	49	102	.325	7th	667	897
1931	AL	—	56	97	.366	8th	704	939
1930	AL	—	62	92	.403	7th	729	884
1929	AL	—	59	93	.388	7th	627	792
1928	AL	—	72	82	.468	5th	656	725
1927	AL	—	70	83	.458	5th	662	708
1926	AL	—	81	72	.529	5th	730	665
1925	AL	—	79	75	.513	5th	811	770
1924	AL	—	66	87	.431	8th	793	858
1923	AL	—	69	85	.448	7th	692	741
1922	AL	—	77	77	.500	5th	691	691
1921	AL	—	62	92	.403	7th	683	858
1920	AL	—	96	58	.623	2nd	794	665
1919	AL	—	88	52	.629	1st	667	534	Pennant
1918	AL	—	57	67	.460	6th	457	446
1917	AL	—	100	54	.649	1st	656	464	World Series
1916	AL	—	89	65	.578	2nd	601	497
1915	AL	—	93	61	.604	3rd	717	509
1914	AL	—	70	84	.455	6th	487	560
1913	AL	—	78	74	.513	5th	488	498
1912	AL	—	78	76	.506	4th	639	648
1911	AL	—	77	74	.510	5th	719	624
1910	AL	—	68	85	.444	6th	457	479
1909	AL	—	78	74	.513	4th	492	464
1908	AL	—	88	64	.579	3rd	537	470
1907	AL	—	87	64	.576	3rd	588	474
1906	AL	—	93	58	.616	1st	570	460	World Series
1905	AL	—	92	60	.605	2nd	612	451
1904	AL	—	89	65	.578	3rd	600	482
1903	AL	—	60	77	.438	7th	516	613
1902	AL	—	74	60	.552	4th	675	602
1901	AL	—	83	53	.610	1st	819	631	Pennant

A dash is a value the source has not published — the season still being played has no final run totals. An empty result column means the club did not win any of those things that year, except in 1994, when a strike ended the season before the postseason, and in a season still under way — then there was nothing to win.

Career leaders with this club

Top 20 by wins above replacement accumulated with the Chicago White Sox, and the same for pitchers. Seasons where a player was mostly somewhere else are not counted here.

Batting20 players

Player	Years	WAR	G	PA	H	HR	RBI	AVG
Luke Appling	1930–1950	92.7	2,422	10,243	2,749	45	1,116	.310
Eddie Collins	1915–1926	86.2	1,670	7,405	2,007	31	804	.331
Frank Thomas	1990–2005	84.6	1,959	8,602	2,136	448	1,465	.307
Nellie Fox	1950–1963	45.1	2,115	9,491	2,470	35	740	.291
Minnie Miñoso	1951–1980	42.3	1,381	5,931	1,529	135	810	.304
Paul Konerko	1999–2014	39.4	2,268	9,258	2,292	432	1,383	.281
Fielder Jones	1901–1908	38.2	1,153	5,077	1,151	10	375	.269
Carlton Fisk	1981–1993	37.5	1,421	5,500	1,259	214	762	.257
Shoeless Joe Jackson	1916–1920	34.2	603	2,604	786	28	390	.345
Sherm Lollar	1952–1963	33.6	1,358	4,922	1,122	124	631	.265
Robin Ventura	1989–1998	33.3	1,254	5,310	1,244	171	741	.274
Happy Felsch	1915–1920	33.3	749	3,129	825	38	446	.293
Luis Aparicio	1956–1970	32.9	1,513	6,438	1,576	43	464	.269
Harold Baines	1980–2001	32.6	1,740	7,064	1,848	227	1,003	.289
Johnny Mostil	1918–1929	32.3	972	4,096	1,054	23	376	.301
Ray Schalk	1912–1928	31.9	1,757	6,215	1,345	11	594	.254
Willie Kamm	1923–1930	31.7	1,153	4,775	1,121	25	578	.280
Jose Abreu	2014–2022	31.5	1,270	5,506	1,445	243	863	.292
Bill Melton	1968–1975	29.6	976	4,011	901	154	535	.258
Chet Lemon	1975–1981	28.9	785	3,197	804	73	348	.288

Pitching20 players

Player	Years	WAR	G	W	L	SV	IP	SO	ERA
Ed Walsh	1904–1916	72.8	426	195	125	35	2946.3	1,732	1.81
Red Faber	1914–1933	59.7	669	254	213	28	4086.7	1,471	3.15
Ted Lyons	1923–1946	50.6	594	260	230	23	4161.0	1,073	3.67
Doc White	1903–1913	47.9	360	159	123	4	2498.3	1,067	2.30
Eddie Cicotte	1912–1920	46.5	362	157	105	21	2368.3	981	2.32
Billy Pierce	1949–1961	46.3	456	186	152	19	2931.0	1,796	3.19
Jim Scott	1909–1917	32.7	317	107	113	9	1892.0	945	2.30
Frank Smith	1904–1910	31.9	241	109	82	3	1746.3	834	2.22
Wilbur Wood	1967–1978	29.4	578	163	148	57	2524.3	1,332	3.18
Mark Buehrle	2000–2011	29.0	390	161	119	0	2476.7	1,396	3.83
Reb Russell	1913–1919	25.0	242	81	59	13	1291.7	495	2.33
Thornton Lee	1937–1947	24.6	261	104	104	6	1888.0	742	3.33
Roy Patterson	1901–1907	24.3	184	81	72	2	1365.0	442	2.75
Joe Benz	1911–1919	24.0	251	76	75	3	1359.7	539	2.43
Nick Altrock	1903–1908	23.3	180	78	63	5	1339.0	387	2.42
Gary Peters	1959–1969	21.9	258	91	78	3	1560.0	1,098	2.92
Joe Horlen	1961–1971	21.3	329	113	113	3	1918.0	1,007	3.11
Frank Owen	1903–1909	20.9	186	81	64	2	1312.3	426	2.48
Chris Sale	2010–2016	20.8	228	74	50	12	1110.0	1,244	3.00
Tommy John	1965–1971	20.2	237	82	80	3	1493.3	888	2.95

Best single seasons

The highest wins above replacement any Chicago White Sox player has put up in one year.

BattingHR · RBI · AVG

1	Eddie Collins1915 · 4 HR · 77 RBI · .332	11.5
2	Eddie Collins1920 · 3 HR · 76 RBI · .372	11.1
3	Shoeless Joe Jackson1920 · 12 HR · 121 RBI · .382	9.9
4	Frank Thomas1991 · 32 HR · 109 RBI · .318	9.3
5	Dick Allen1972 · 37 HR · 113 RBI · .308	8.9
6	Luke Appling1936 · 6 HR · 128 RBI · .388	8.6
7	Luke Appling1943 · 3 HR · 80 RBI · .328	8.6
8	Happy Felsch1920 · 14 HR · 115 RBI · .338	8.5
9	Happy Felsch1917 · 6 HR · 102 RBI · .308	8.3
10	Shoeless Joe Jackson1916 · 3 HR · 78 RBI · .341	8.3

PitchingW · SO · ERA

1	Ed Walsh1908 · 40 W · 269 SO · 1.42	13.1
2	Ed Walsh1910 · 18 W · 258 SO · 1.27	10.9
3	Ed Walsh1911 · 27 W · 255 SO · 2.22	10.2
4	Ed Walsh1912 · 27 W · 254 SO · 2.15	9.5
5	Ed Walsh1907 · 24 W · 206 SO · 1.60	9.5
6	Frank Smith1909 · 25 W · 177 SO · 1.80	8.4
7	Eddie Cicotte1917 · 28 W · 150 SO · 1.53	7.3
8	Doc White1907 · 27 W · 141 SO · 2.26	7.1
9	Red Faber1922 · 21 W · 148 SO · 2.81	7.0
10	Ed Walsh1906 · 17 W · 171 SO · 1.88	6.7

How this page is built

Every row below is the club's own season, 1901 to 2026. That is 126 of them, 9,726–9,779 in all, a winning percentage of .499. 3 World Series — 1906, 1917, 2005.

Wins and losses on this page come straight from the source; the player tables do not. A season line in this database carries one club, the one where the player took the most plate appearances — or, for a pitcher, recorded the most outs — that year. So a player traded in July is credited to one side of the trade and not the other, and the career totals below are the club he mostly played for rather than a strict split. Wins above replacement is worked out per season here, and a season cannot be cut in half without recomputing it on a different basis, which would leave two numbers on this site that disagree. One basis, stated, is the honest version of that trade-off.

What the columns mean, and where the franchise begins

Finishing position means a different thing before and after divisions arrived in 1969. Also: why the club's history starts in 1901 here, and what the run columns are for.

The franchise boundary is the source database's, not ours. Each season carries a franchise identifier, and that identifier is what groups the rows on this page. It merges moves and renamings — Brooklyn and Los Angeles are one club under it — and it also keeps some things apart that share a city and a nickname: the National Association clubs of 1871 to 1875 are separate franchises from the National League clubs that followed them in the same towns. We could have merged those by hand, and then this page would carry a career record that no published source agrees with. Following the identifier means the totals here can be checked against somebody else's.

The best and worst of it: 1917 and 2024. The 1917 club went 100–54 (.649) and won the World Series; the 2024 club went 41–121 (.253). Schedules were not always the same length — a nineteenth-century season could be seventy games and 2020 was sixty — so read the percentage rather than the win column when the two are far apart in time.

Finishing position means different things in different eras. Before 1969 there were no divisions, so the finish column is the club's place in the whole league. From 1969 it is the place within a division, which is a smaller field, and a third place in a six-team division is not the same achievement as a third place in a ten-team league. The division column says which one applies. Nothing on this page is postseason record: the wins and losses are regular season only, and the World Series, pennant and division marks in the result column say what the club went on to win, not how it did once it got there.

Runs scored and runs allowed are here because they explain the record. A club that wins more games than its run difference suggests has usually won a lot of close ones, and that tends not to repeat. The two columns are the cheapest way to see whether a season was as good as its win total, and they are the input to most of the modern estimates of how many games a team should have won. They are blank for the season still being played where the source has not published them yet.

Data for 1871 to 2025: Lahman Baseball Database 2025, compiled by SABR (Society for American Baseball Research) and licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported. Negro Leagues data licensed from Seamheads.com and included under SABR major-league recommendations (2021-02-11, 2024-06-03). This page groups the source database's team seasons by its franchise identifier and adds up the Chicago White Sox careers of the players on the season pages. — the WAR columns are computed here — and they are published under the same CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported licence, as ShareAlike requires. That database is published once a season is complete, so the 2026 figures on this site come from a different place: the MLB Stats API, whose notice reads “Copyright 2026 MLB Advanced Media, L.P. Use of any content on this page acknowledges agreement to the terms posted here http://gdx.mlb.com/components/copyright.txt”. Those numbers are MLB Advanced Media, L.P.’s, not SABR (Society for American Baseball Research)’s, and they carry that notice rather than the CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported licence above. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Major League Baseball or any of its clubs.