Jim Margulis

I'd forgotten what it's like when the White Sox share some of the load in providing entertainment and we're more or less commenting on it, reflecting on it, trying to extrapolate meaning from it.

And that's a lot more fun than 300 lost seasons to where we're just mining for something that isn't just mulling over the same mistakes over and over again.

Yeah, they have some powder dry.

I mean, you're seeing David Sandlin being called up.

He might be the last of their somewhat ready pitchers to be able to take a start.

They have some talent left, like Hagen Smith is just not throwing strikes right now, but he could feasibly part of the conversation in weeks.

Then you have like Duncan Davitt and Jonathan Cannon, who have had varying degrees of major league experience before.

But yeah, Sandlin should be interesting as somebody who throws high 90s and a real good breaking ball.

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...

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

They have skills.

The White Sox can leverage them and complement them with other players.

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