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Chicago Tribune
CHICAGO — The Chicago White Sox were on their way to a 101-loss season in mid-September when manager Pedro Grifol told reporters he was confident they would contend in 2024. It seemed like a bit of a stretch, so I asked Grifol why he thought that would be a realistic possibility. “Why wouldn’t we?” he asked. “Why wouldn’t we be able to?” The Sox’s record suggested it would not be a quick fix, I replied, and history tells us it takes time to turn around a team that has played as poorly as the 2023 Sox. But Grifol countered he had read something that contradicted my theory. “There is a pretty go…