Pitchers and catchers have reported, and games have begun.. Spring Training is not only here, it's exciting! The White Sox haven't had the best record yet, going 1-6 to start, but its not even close to time to panic yet. The White Sox starting pitchers, including Frankenpatient Jake Peavy, have all logged in scoreless innings and have reported that all are healthy so far. Fingers crossed that it stays that way: while the addition of Adam Dunn and (yikes) Lastings Milledge upgraded the offense quite a bit, it won't make up for the fact that Juan Pierre and Brent Morel will get 400+ at bats yet have no power to speak of. This is still a White Sox team built around potentially phenomenal pitching.
While I wouldn't compare the Flying Sock's arms to the Phillies quartet of aces, I'd argue that if healthy the White Sox have a top 5 rotation. The scary thing about all of the aggressive moves that the Sox have made in the past few years is that there's no depth in the farm system. Disaster looms large if Peavy suffers a setback AND another starter gets hurt too. The model for this? The St Louis Cardinals. When Adam Wainwright got hurt last week, it put the Cardinals back on the bubble. When Chris Carpenter got hurt, they would've shifted from "wait and see" to a forced decision to go all-out to compete or make some moves to set themselves up to get ready for the next year. Those aren't enviable decisions, and hopefully they arent choices that the Sox will have to make either.
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