Gavin Sheets on the 2021 Playoff Run and How it Unravelled

The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

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4.7 • 620 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Former White Sox Gavin Sheets returns to the Southside in a Padres uniform. Sheets opens up about the highs of the 2021 division title, the stunning collapse that followed, and what really went wrong inside the clubhouse. He also explains why a change of scenery helped both him and Andrew Vaughn thrive elsewhere, shares his excitement for the White Sox under Will Venable, and the special reunion with Jose Abreu.

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0:51.1	All right, so here on the podcast today, it's a conversation with Gavin Sheets, who was in
0:56.7	town over the weekend with the San Diego Padres, and he provides great insight into the previous
1:04.7	era with the White Sox, the highs of winning the division in 21, the extreme lows of last season, and why the window
1:14.8	closed so quickly for the White Sox.
1:18.0	So he's going to explain why he and Andrew Vaughn were able to flourish elsewhere with the
1:23.8	Padres and the Brewers this season, why he's a big fan of Will Venable with the
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