All good things come to those who
wait, I guess. White Sox general manager
Rick Hahn must have decided enough was enough with pitching prospect Dylan
Cease. The boxes have been checked, the
Triple-A challenges met, so up Cease comes to the Sox; he’s set to make his
major-league debut Wednesday against the Tigers at home. The question for me is, did Hahn wait too
long to act?
By the end of May, Cease looked
ready; by the end of June, he looked gassed, with a 8.31 ERA for the month to
go with 14 strikeouts and12 walks in 17.1 innings. What happened from one month to the
next? Hahn really didn’t say, unless it
was hidden somewhere in the patter of his gibber.
“We’ve said all along Dylan Cease
was going to get to Chicago based on what Dylan Cease is doing, not based upon
what other players are doing,” said the oracle of 35th Street to
reporters on Friday (and reported in today’s Tribune). “Based upon what Dylan Cease has been doing,
we’re getting awful close to that time.”
If you say so, Rick.
The good news is the Sox, finally,
will have three young pitchers—Giolito, Lopez, Cease—in the rotation. It should be four, but Michael Kopech is
recovering from Tommy John surgery. I’ll
take what I can get, while also asking that top prospects Louis Robert and Nick
Madrigal receive September call-ups so fans can get a look at them and the two
of them can get their feet wet.
What do you say, oh oracle?
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