At lengthy final, White Sox open the window to competition

GLENDALE, Ariz. — Welcome to spring coaching, the place the solar nearly at all times shines and optimism radiates even in the course of the bleakest occasions. For the White Sox, it’s time to open the home windows and let the solar shine in after three years of rebuilding, seven years of dropping and 11 with out a postseason. Enough of that, the Sox say. This is a season, with a gifted core of younger gamers corresponding to third baseman Yoan Moncada, shortstop Tim Anderson, left fielder Eloy Jimenez, rookie middle fielder Luis Robert, pitchers Lucas Giolito, Reynaldo Lopez, Dylan Cease, Michael Kopech and Aaron Bummer meshing with veteran first baseman Jose Abreu, catcher Yasmani Grandal