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Ex-White Sox pitcher Chris Sale is having a nice bounce-back season with the Braves. Sale is 5-1 with a 2.95 ERA. But, hey, Yoan Moncada and Michael Kopech could still pan out. Ex-Sox pitcher Dylan Cease is having a nice bounce-back season with the Padres. Yesterday at Wrigley Field, Cease threw seven shutout innings, striking out 12 while walking two and giving up but one hit. Cease is now 5-2 with a 2.19 ERA. But, hey, we can always sign him when he becomes a free agent after next season. The Sox beat the Rays 5-1 last night, with rookie third baseman Bryan Ramos going 2-for-4 with a double and an RBI. Ramos is 5-for-14 in four starts since taking over for the injured Danny Mendick, who was taking over for the perpetually injured Moncada. I wonder who gets sent down and who sits once Moncada comes back. It doesn’t matter in a way because Moncada will get injured again within three weeks of coming back. You can bank on it. Just like you can Sox manager Mickey Mouse doing and saying something profoundly dumb. A day after rookie catcher Korey Lee went 2-for-4 and threw out a another baserunner, Mouse sat him for, yup, Martin Maldonado, and Maldonado, yup, went 0-for-4 with three strikeouts. For anyone keeping track, Maldonado has struck out 24 times in 61 at-bats, or 39 percent of the time. I guess he doesn’t have much knowledge of the strike zone, unlike the recently traded Robbie Grossman. Now there was a guy with "incredible knowledge of the strike zone,” according to Mouse in today’s Tribune. I guess that’s why Grossman was hitting .211 for the Sox and .243 over his career. GM Chris Getz sent Grossman to the Rangers for a 23-year old minor-league pitcher. Apparently, no broken bats were included in the deal.