There are always pleasant surprises to begin any baseball season. For the 2025 season, there are pleasant surprises and no it’s not the torpedo bats. The Miami Marlins have shocked many, winning their first three games of the season off walk offs. The St. Louis Cardinals made quick work of the Minnesota Twins sweeping their series. But no greater surprise comes from the Chicago White Sox.

White Sox Off to a Nice Start

Coming off a season where you’re the worst team in baseball is not a good feeling. The morale could be down and going to work can be exhausting. But the 2025 White Sox are not the 2024 team and they’ve managed to turn the page and change the tides pretty quickly. Expectations are still low for the team, as they are enduring a rebuild. That does not mean they can’t compete though.

The White Sox are a complete surprise team and we will get to why in a moment. They currently are .500, which is wonderful. The two victories they do have are blowouts, as they smoked the Angels on Opening Day 8-1 and shutout the Twins 9-0. If you are those two teams you gotta be scratching your head a bit. Also, the losses have been quite close with the Sox only losing by one run. They’ve managed to out score their opponents 19-5, so that’s huge to have that big of a run differential. It’s early, but having this record is encouraging at least. But what’s stood out is their pitching staff, which I’d pay anyone money if they could name their rotation without looking before the season started.

White Sox Rotation Has Been Stellar

The reason they have been so good in their games is because of their pitching. The pitching has been so dominant that they’ve been able to keep the team ahead of the curve. Hats off to the rotation, because in 2024 they were 25th in ERA and 27th in WHIP. In 2025, they’ve been nothing but stellar.

Starter success 🫡 pic.twitter.com/IheJKaQigl

— Chicago White Sox (@whitesox) March 31, 2025

Martin Perez, Jonathan Cannon, Davis Martin, and Sean Burke (Opening Day Starter) have been elite to begin the season. They’ve combined to pitch 23 innings and have yet to allow a single earned run. They have a combined 0.83 WHIP and have struck out 19. The cool part about this rotation aside from them shocking the world, is that they’ve made history. Burke, Martin, and Cannon pitched 17 innings and didn’t surrender a run, making them the 11th group in history to accomplish that. Oh, don’t leave Perez out of the equation because he had a no hitter going against the Twins today.

The White Sox went on to pull him from the start, but he was the first pitcher since Hideo Nomo (2001) to pitch six innings and surrender zero runs in a debut with their new team. Given that they’ve given the pitchers run support for their stellar work, let’s turn to the plate.

Life at the Plate

This is a team with two different tales. They are hardly making contact (.210 average), but are for sure hitting for power (.471 slugging). The encouraging sign is that Andrew Benintendi, Luis Robert Jr, and Miguel Vargas are hitting fairly well. Heck, Benintendi is slugging over .600 and hit his 100th career home run, so there is that.

Brooks Baldwin and Michael Taylor are also contributing at the plate. Not to mention number two ranked prospect Kyle Teel had himself a weekend in Charlotte and it’s only a matter of time before he comes into the mix.

It’s important to touch on the bats, but the pitching is having quite the time on the bump. It’s only four games, so things can change very quick, but as a White Sox fan you have to be happy about this for now.