Plus we all forget that Mookie had a down year for his standards at the plate and Bogaerts was injured for half the year. Plus Benintendi and Devers will be a lot better. We gotta count on a lot of internal improvement.
So Machado is just going to assume that the White Sox will turn a corner? There's no absolutes with prospects.
Or he could sign somewhere, like New York, that will have the available money and will be a contender.