White Sox DFA Rule 5 rookie Jedixson Paez after 3 outings
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Why did the White Sox designate Jedixson Paez for assignment?
This is Rahimi Harrison-Grote on 104.3 The Score. Marshall is already shaking his head. You have a particular feeling about this. We all do, for the record, want to see Rule 5 success. I feel like in baseball it is something where change of scenery is good for athletes. We want to see somebody succeed who is perhaps blocked on another roster and they get an opportunity. Like Hedickson-Pias for the White Sox, who... hadn't pitched at a certain level. You know, he had only been at the high A level before he joined the team.
What factors contribute to a player's success in the Rule 5 draft?
And we thought, oh, this is a good thing. Maybe there's a chance since he got picked up by rule five selection that he would be able to be somebody. But unfortunately, the Sox had to designate him for assignment yesterday after three poor appearances. struggled, so has other Sox pitchers, by the way, allowed six runs in three innings, and it was pretty much confirmed that he wasn't ready for the majors yet, but I understand why the Sox took a flyer. However, there's the issue of who the Sox lost on the other side that has you shaking your head.
So, there's a kid. He pitches. His name is Peyton Paulette. He's on the And you know how they got him? By way of the Rule 5 draft off of the White Sox organization.
You don't say.
So they left him unprotected. And they were out here not just getting Paez, who you mentioned, but also Alexander Alberto, who didn't even make it to the opening day as a Rule 5 guy. And you left a guy, I don't know if you've seen the White Sox play yet this season, Layla, but pitching is something they need.
How dare you? I watched a lot of, well, I think I watched all of the Sandy Alcantara special, actually. I shouldn't really admit to that out loud. No, I definitely watch games. They're one in five. What's your point?
My point is they're one in five.
I don't feel like I wasted that time. Nope.
Peyton Paulette took a guy that pitched in the Southern League last year. for the Birmingham Barons, you know, my original team.
The team you grew up on.
The first team I ever saw play baseball in a professional manner at the Hoover Met. And he had a 3.43 ERA last season. He's already made two appearances for the Cleveland Guardians. In those two appearances, he's pitched three and two-thirds innings. He's given up a couple of hits, one run. He struck out three with one walk. He's got a whip of .818. That sounds like someone the White Sox could use right now. And so now I'm questioning the White Sox and their ability to evaluate talent, especially when you roll the dice on a guy like Paez, who had never, as you mentioned, pitched above high A. Well, and then there's the other part.
And maybe this is too formulaic. What do we talk about all the time with the Cubs, for example? The lack of pitching when it comes to plus-plus fastball.
Yes.
So why are you letting the guy who has a fastball that pretty much is 97 miles an hour, why are you leaving him unprotected in the Rule 5 draft? How does that happen?
Clearly their evaluation of their own talent did not match that of other organizations.
And here's what magnifies what you're talking about. Don't act like you haven't thought about the same thing if you watch the Sox. And by you, I mean listening to our show. It goes back to you see this team right now and you see how bleak the pitching outlook looks, for example.
It is bleak.
And you understand that they're one in five. And I said this and I'll maintain it takes real work to To lose 100 games in a row for four straight years in a professional Major League Baseball league.
Who is Peyton Paulette and why is he significant to this discussion?
You thought it would be unlikely.
I did. I didn't think the pitching would be this bad either. I thought Shane Smith was probably the opening day starter last year, but injury caused a problem there. When you feel like the best possible pitchers you have are not even yet at the big league level. And you don't have anybody yet to at least have a cornerstone. At this point in a rebuild, which is very much what this was, despite Jerry Reinsdorf telling us that hiring Chris Goetz was going to shorten his timeline by a year for a rebuild.
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