Jim Margulis

He's entertaining in the sense that he's a big guy who throws really hard, and that gets you a lot of the way there in today's game.

Position player-wise, you're seeing the White Sox like...

Yeah, Braden Montgomery is still figuring out AAA, which he has every right to do given where he is in his developments.

But you're seeing like the Sam Antonacci types or even the Riku Nishida types of just players who have emerged in ways that make them useful, even if they're not, you know, blue chip prospects or...

uh, starters are going to be able to handle 150 games at any position.

Like they have skills, uh, the white socks can leverage them and compliment them with other players.

And when you have, uh, a 162 game season, you know, we see this a lot with Milwaukee, uh, finding those players who can bridge gaps and, and, and fill a hole in the lineup or fill a hole in the diamond.

Like those are immensely useful in ways that maybe don't show up on their individual stat lines.

It's a little confusing because if you told me that he were to be struggling at the major league level, I would think that he's getting killed in the strike zone, that he's giving up a lot of hits or balls are finding their way over the fence and the swing and miss issues are coming into play.

But really, he's gotten himself into trouble with walks.

and hit by pitches which are that really hasn't been a part of his profile at least when healthy like last year when he was dealing with the knee issue he had like a career high walk rates and that was a signal that something was wrong here like in Charlotte he was throwing strikes just filling up the zone gets the majors and I'm not sure if it's a case where he feels he needs to be more careful or if he doesn't have like one pitch the rest of his arsenal kind of wobbles but yeah he's just walking more guys than I thought and

You can look at that two ways.

You can look at that in terms of like he still has more development to do and it might be hard earned at the major league level because if he doesn't have problems throwing strikes in Charlotte, then what's he going to learn there?

The other thing is that like he could eventually just figure it out and flip a switch and oh yeah, here's how I throw strikes.

Major league lineups aren't as scary as I'm making them out to be.

And all of a sudden, he is now a number three starter at the majors in his rookie year.

I think it can go either way, but he is, I think, pretty important to what the White Sox are trying to do, given that Tanner McDougal is out, Hagan Smith's not throwing strikes.

Shane Smith is out with a shoulder issue for a while.

They kind of need all the starters that they have.

So Schultz right now, he deserves some leeway as a rookie making his way through the majors for the first time.