WASHINGTON — Will Venable knows there’s a balance between some of the strides the Chicago White Sox made in 2025 and also the team’s poor win-loss record.

“You have to exist in both worlds,” the Sox manager told the Tribune on Thursday. “In the one world, you have a season — and I know we talk about the losses (101 entering Saturday), I think about it in wins — we only have (59) wins. And by any measure that’s just not good enough and we’re not happy with that at all. And that’s certainly something that we use to drive us and motivate us to do the right thing and work hard moving forward.

“At the same time, there is real progress and there are things we’re certainly proud of with our group. And that we can point to while also acknowledging that we have a lot of work to do.”

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