The Plan

If the White Sox have a plan for this rebuild (you never know), it focuses on pitching and after that maybe shortstop and catcher. For what it’s worth, that would be totally in keeping with two franchise strengths and one weakness—Ted Lyons and Billy Pierce, Luke Appling and Luis Aparicio (and Ozzie Guillen), and someone to follow in the footsteps of Carlton Fisk, and A.J. Pierzynsk, even. Last night featured the pitching part of the plan with Drew Thorpe one pitch away from six shutout innings against the Rockies. A misplaced change to Brenton Doyle cost Thorpe two runs, but not the victory with the likes of Tommy Pham and Paul DeJong sparking a four-run rally in the bottom of the sixth for a 5-3. Mercy. Today, fellow rookie Jonathan Cannon takes the mound and Korey Lee, not Martin Maldonado, catches. Looks like a plan to me.