Jim Margulis

Like last year, when he was dealing with a knee issue, he had a career-high walk rate, and that was a signal that something was wrong.

Here, like in Charlotte, he was throwing strikes, just filling up the zone.

Gets to 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 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.

You know, major league lineups aren't as scary as I'm making them out to be.

And all of a sudden, he is now a, you know, 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.

But it would really behoove him, the White Sox, to...

figure it out well enough to go five innings on a reliable basis because they really need somebody like that because if it's not him and David Sandlin, we'll see who he's replacing, but they might need everybody who's currently in the rotation to hold their spots for a while.

Yeah, I think there's always cases on both sides of the ball where hitters or pitchers are just too talented for what either pitchers are throwing or what hitters are seeing.

I would say the position player equivalent would be like Avisiel Garcia of just somebody who, every time he went to AAA, he was hitting 340 and slugging 550 and just...

They couldn't do anything to him.

And it was like years of hard-earned progress for him where he finally had an all-star year and had some productive years with the White Sox and Milwaukee.

And I think even the Rays.