The Chicago White Sox will host their home opener against the visiting Kansas City Royals as part of Opening Day 2013.
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While the Royals made some big moves, including a trade with Tampa Bay for ace James Shields, the White Sox largely kept their roster intact. Even so, they believe they have enough to challenge Detroit for the AL Central title.
They led the division for 117 days last season before a 2-10 slide in late September dropped them to 85-77, three games behind Detroit.
Chicago's biggest offseason moves were re-signing pitcher Jake Peavy before he could become a free agent and giving a five-year deal to Chris Sale -- the opening-night starter -- after a 17-win season. The White Sox also shuffled their front office, promoting Rick Hahn to general manager and Ken Williams to executive vice president, and let catcher A.J. Pierzynski sign with Texas.
As for splashy additions? They left that to the rest of the division.
"I'll drop the Florida Gulf Coast here," Sale said, referring to his alma mater's run to the regional semifinals in the NCAA tournament. "Nobody expected them to win anything. They didn't have a big bandwagon or fan base to start with. If you believe in yourselves, that can take you a long way. We all believe in ourselves and in each other. We're going to get this thing going -- and get it going right away."
