Connor McKnight

But what if that next guy is kind of right there?

I think that's a really valuable option for them as well.

Yeah, I think that's fair.

These are really tough teams in a really tough part of the schedule where your depth is really starting to be tested.

The White Sox are hopefully going to get Noah Schultz back and a healthy Noah Schultz back, which should help on the pitching front of things.

I mean, we can just in long stretches like this, the depth gets tested, especially in a bullpen.

The White Sox have weathered that test up to this point.

But that's not to say that they aren't dealing with the innings and having to get through those and looking at the bullpen kind of, you know, OK, here we go.

This is we got to keep doing this.

And the guys have stepped up and done it.

um jacob gonzalez looked good in his first game over at first base both offensively and defensively both of his fly ball outs were hit over 100 miles an hour which coming out of charlotte is you know he hit a lot of home runs 19 of them in the minor leagues uh former first round draft pick and some of those homers looked like they were helped by the fact that you're playing in charlotte it's a hitter's paradise down there and he comes up here

and shoots a couple of hundred miles an hour, gets his first big league hit.

If he can play first base the way he has in that one game, I think the White Sox have something they can deal with.

But, you know, whether it's Miguel Vargas, who's pretty quickly becoming one of the better third basemen in baseball, or Colson Montgomery, who's just crushing the thing right now.

I mean, that was an absolute no-doubter the other day.

He's got 15 home runs.

There isn't another shortstop in all of baseball that's got 15 home runs.

So you mix some of that up with the power and get the on-base kind of additions that you have from Antonacci and Maidroff and even Tristan Peters a little bit, and you've got more than enough to keep afloat, I think.

The key, I would imagine, in playing 500 baseball through that nasty stretch you just kind of walked us through, Marshall, is playing good defense.

The White Sox have done that a little bit over the last four or five games, certainly against the Central.