# What is the greatest Chicago White Sox team of all time?

> Deadball-era pennant winners sit beside a wire-to-wire champion and a few South Side clubs that never got the chance to finish the job.

*By YPB Team · Published November 6, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/what-is-the-greatest-chicago-white-sox-team-of-all-time*

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1. **2005 Chicago White Sox** — score 1000/1000
   Ozzie Guillén's 99–63 team led the AL Central from opening day, went 11–1 in the postseason and swept Houston for the franchise's first World Series title since 1917.
2. **1994 Chicago White Sox** — score 454/1000
   A 67–46 team leading the new AL Central by one game when the players' strike ended the season, with Frank Thomas winning his second straight MVP award.
3. **1919 Chicago White Sox** — score 454/1000
   The 88–52 American League champions lost the best-of-nine World Series to Cincinnati, and eight players were later banned for life in the Black Sox scandal.
4. **1983 Chicago White Sox** — score 454/1000
   The "Winning Ugly" team went 99–63 to win the AL West by 20 games, with LaMarr Hoyt winning the Cy Young Award and Ron Kittle Rookie of the Year, before losing the ALCS to Baltimore.
5. **2000 Chicago White Sox** — score 372/1000
   Jerry Manuel's 95–67 club posted the best record in the American League and won the AL Central before being swept by Seattle in the Division Series.
6. **1917 Chicago White Sox** — score 372/1000
   A 100–54 club, still the franchise's best winning percentage, that beat the New York Giants four games to two in the World Series behind Red Faber's three wins.
7. **1959 Chicago White Sox** — score 372/1000
   The 94–60 "Go-Go Sox" of Nellie Fox, Luis Aparicio and Early Wynn won the franchise's first pennant in 40 years and lost the World Series to the Los Angeles Dodgers in six games.
8. **1906 Chicago White Sox** — score 372/1000
   The "Hitless Wonders" won the pennant with a team batting average of .230 and beat the 116-win Chicago Cubs four games to two in the only all-Chicago World Series.
9. **2021 Chicago White Sox** — score 272/1000
   Tony La Russa's 93–69 club won the AL Central by 13 games behind José Abreu, Tim Anderson and Lance Lynn and lost the Division Series to Houston.
10. **1993 Chicago White Sox** — score 0/1000
   A 94–68 AL West champion with MVP Frank Thomas and Cy Young winner Jack McDowell that lost the ALCS to the Toronto Blue Jays in six games.

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