Jim Margalus talks White Sox: Rikuu Nishida's debut, expectations for David Sandlin
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What are the latest White Sox storylines discussed?
Socks machine. You know what that music means? Isn't that Daft Punk? It is. Okay, so it's Daft Punk and Sox Machine. Self-explanatory. We know the website. Well, this is Rahimi Harrison-Grody and the managing editor of Sox Machine. We are happy to bring him on on our hotline. He's also on Twitch, twitch.tv slash thescorechicago. Jim Margulis joins us. Jim, how are you?
I'm good. How are you?
Happy to talk to you for a myriad of reasons. Number one, I like what you have to say about baseball in general. Number two, you're very entertaining. And number three, the White Sox are relevant in good ways, not just at the professional level, but in the farm system as well, and perhaps more with this draft. This is a good time.
Yeah, we don't have to make our own fun anymore. 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.
Well, and I, yes, mulling over the same mistakes over and over again just describes me and my own personal life. But thankfully, not the White Sox now. This is, it's a good time. And I was reminded, Jim, of what we said with James Feagin, where Feagin was on with us earlier and said, this is the first time he can remember when there's so much talent still left in the farm system, despite what's already been happening at the big league level.
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.
Yeah, so you have this sort of juxtaposition happening on this White Sox team of, yeah, they're about winning right now, and considering the competition in the American League and even in the division, they should be about winning, but there's also the development part of it and the bringing up of these guys like Riku Nishida and David Sandlin, as you mentioned. Guy, I want to ask you about, too, is what have you thought about, what is your evaluation of Noah Schultz so far with the White Sox?
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. 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.
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