Benetti: This year's Sox are spunky

The 2017 White Sox are rebuilding. The 2017 White Sox are fun to watch. Rebuilding. Fun to watch.

I think everyone taking in this season knows that the goal of the organization is to construct something for the future by stockpiling prospects. That's why the team traded Chris Sale and Adam Eaton for the haul of Yoan Moncada, Michael Kopech, Lucas Giolito, Reynaldo Lopez, Dane Dunning et al.

As we're learning, rebuilding doesn't mean joyless. Friday night, the Sox walked off on the Rangers to open the three-game series on a Melky Cabrera hit. Tuesday night, the Sox walked the Yankees off on a Jose Abreu 2-run single. Monday night, the Sox surged back with four in the ninth for a near-win.

But Wednesday night the Sox lost 12-3. And the Sox have gotten just nine quality starts in the last 37 games as of this writing.

But Zack Collins and Michael Kopech and Yoan Moncada were named to the MLB Futures Game.

But Avisail Garcia (leading the team in batting average and most run-production advanced metrics) and Matt Davidson (leading the team in home runs) are having career years.

But the Sox would like to make more trades to stockpile even more young talent.

It's a team that will - sometimes within the course of a single game - oscillate your mind between "Hey, we're rebuilding" and "Hey, we're leading."

The stability, to me, comes in the vitality of the dugout. The Sox seem to have more post-home run handshakes than Elton John has outfits. Watch the Sox dugout after a big play - it's an exceptional display of memory and hand-eye coordination.

Todd Frazier and Derek Holland, both professional wrestling fans, have taken to staging fake fights in the dugout after Frazier does something exceptional. During the game Friday night with the Rangers, Holland picked up the lid of a Gatorade jug and swung it at Frazier as if he were the Undertaker hitting Mankind with a steel chair (You're right, I don't watch as much wrestling as I did in the '90s).

Melky Cabrera, on Thursday night, took an extra-base hit away from MLB home run leader Aaron Judge with a leaping catch at the wall. Melky, though, always in for a bit of fun, hid the ball for a moment, then spun, took a bow and applauded.

Holland, on Super Hero night, wore a Batman mask in the dugout. Yolmer Sanchez, in honor of his son Noah, does Mickey Mouse ears with his hands on his helmet quite a bit when he gets a hit.

Yes, "Baseball Team Has Fun" is basically a headline out of The Onion. That said, during the course of my time in minor-league baseball, I called games from 2005-2014. One of those teams had a winning record. While Triple-A and the majors are not the same - compensation can lead to fun, certainly - I've seen teams with a deficit in the standings go atmospherically south. Or, at the very least, border on apathetic.

The White Sox of this season are plucky, creative and, generally, spirited. That's rare, I think, in a season filed under "R" for rebuild.

• Jason Benetti is a play-by-play broadcaster for the Chicago White Sox, as well as ESPN. Follow him on Twitter @jasonbenetti.