Call it
coincidence or call it kismet—on the same day Cubs’ starter Yu Darvish pulls
himself early from a rehab start the White Sox announce the call-up of
flame-throwing phenom—don’t you just love the language of baseball?—Micahel
Kopech. Insert jokes about checking all
the boxes here.
Darvish is more
of a nightmare than a joke to the North Siders.
Signed for six years at $126 million, the right-hander hasn’t pitched
for his new team in three months.
Yesterday, he stopped after an inning of work at Class-A South
Bend. This is not what you would call a
very good sign. Darvish has been
complaining about elbow pain for months now. What doesn’t go away is a sign of significant
damage, in my humble opinion.
The moral of the
story is, develop your own pitching and hang onto it. That’s what the White Sox did with Chris
Sale, at least for seven years until the whole house-of-cards approach to
roster building came crashing down end after the 2016 season. So, then we traded Sale to the Red Sox for
minor-league talent including Yoan “Strike Three” Moncada and Kopech. You could say we kind of developed those two.
Kopech, who
starts Tuesday, will join a young staff that includes Lucas “Who, Me Worry?”
Giolito and Carlos Rodon. Meanwhile, the
Cubs are left to wonder what went wrong with their winter acquisitions of
Darvish and Tyler “Walk Man” Chatwood.
Kismet, I say again.
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