Three's a Charm?

The White Sox blew it with Jake Burger and Gavin Sheets. Maybe they’ll hold onto Tim Elko. The 26-year old rookie recorded his first major-league hit in the bottom of the sixth inning of yesterday’s game against the Marlins, a three-run homerun that proved the difference in a 4-2 win. We’ll save the insanity of Sean Burke needing to throw 91 pitches to get through four innings for another day. Elko stands 6’3” and weighs a sculpted 250 pounds. He kind of swatted at a curveball from 2022 Cy Young award-winner Sandy Alcantara down in the zone in a way that reminded me of Mark McGwire, who stood two inches taller and weighed 35 pounds less. But I’m willing to bet Elko’s muscles, which allowed him to drive the ball 381 feet into the left-field stands, are not the science project that McGwire’s were. One game does not a career make. But it gets one to dreaming…