{"id":68896,"date":"2024-03-22T17:00:11","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T21:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=68896"},"modified":"2024-03-22T16:36:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T20:36:03","slug":"the-white-sox-starting-rotation-is-taking-shape-with-these-pitchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/03\/22\/the-white-sox-starting-rotation-is-taking-shape-with-these-pitchers\/","title":{"rendered":"The White Sox Starting Rotation is Taking Shape with These Pitchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The starting pitching rotation for the Chicago White Sox is beginning to take shape as the club has named their first, second, and third starters. The White Sox have filled their first spot in the rotation with <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/03\/19\/garret-crochet-opening-day-starter\/\" target=\"_self\">Garrett Crochet<\/a> in a somewhat surprising move. They have now gone ahead and filled the second and third spots in their starting pitching rotation with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/sorokmi01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-03-22_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Soroka<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/f\/feddeer01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-03-22_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Erick Fedde<\/a>. You can read more about the White Sox potential rotation <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/03\/18\/chicago-white-sox-starting-pitching-rotation\/\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Got the nod for March 28 \ud83d\ude24 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GnuU5h8npf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/GnuU5h8npf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chicago White Sox (@whitesox) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/whitesox\/status\/1769799510769754237?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 18, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>White Sox Rotation Ahead of Opening Day<\/h2>\n<h3>Michael Soroka Named the Number Two Starting Pitcher<\/h3>\n<p>Soroka is a newcomer to the White Sox, having come to them in a trade with the Atlanta Braves when the Sox let <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bummeaa01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-03-22_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aaron Bummer<\/a> go to Atlanta. Soroka had decent enough spring training and is now preparing to be pivotal in the White Sox starting rotation.<\/p>\n<p>In looking at the stats for Soroka, notice how he has just four seasons of work in the majors. He was injured in 2021 and 2022 and didn\u2019t play. He comes into this season with an ERA of 3.32 in 43 starts (44 games overall). According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/sorokmi01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Baseball Reference<\/a>, his WHIP is 1.206. In limited action, Soroka hasn\u2019t been that bad.<\/p>\n<p>But he\u2019s on a team that, defensively, we don\u2019t know how they will perform. We know that the defenses help out the pitchers, and good defenses can make good pitchers. Playing with the Braves, Soroka typically had a good defense behind him. With the White Sox, it\u2019s tough to tell if he\u2019ll have an excellent defense to back him up. Last year\u2019s team defense wasn\u2019t great, and the pitchers suffered because of that.<\/p>\n<p>The White Sox don\u2019t know if Soroka can go the distance this year. As mentioned, he was injured and we hope he\u2019s over his previous problems. The White Sox need all their pitchers to be and remain healthy to get through what promises to be a tough season.<\/p>\n<h3>Erick Fedde Named Third in the Starting Rotation<\/h3>\n<p>In addition, the White Sox named Erick Fedde their third starter for their third game against the Detroit Tigers at home. Fedde is also a newcomer to the White Sox and has shown some good stuff during spring training. It\u2019s been enough to warrant his getting the third spot in the rotation. Fedde has played for the Washington Nationals and then for the NC Dinos of the KBO. He\u2019s got a lot of experience and could do well with the Sox.<\/p>\n<p>Fedde heads into the season with a career (major league) ERA of 5.41. According to Baseball Reference, he has started 88 major league games but has played in 102 total. His WHIP is 1.523. It\u2019s a chance for a fresh start for Fedde, so the hope is that he gets started on the right foot against the Tigers and shows Sox nation what he can do.<\/p>\n<p>The White Sox aren\u2019t going to have a great season, but it will still be interesting to watch them. The pitching prospects might not be big-name guys, but they have some great backstories and a lot of potential. They could surprise some folks. You never know what\u2019s going to happen with this group.<\/p>\n<p>However, the White Sox will need time to put things together, which might take the whole season. And even though 2024 doesn\u2019t look bright, 2025 will be better.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo: \u00a9 Rick Scuteri-USA TODAY Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The starting pitching rotation for the Chicago White Sox is beginning to take shape as the club has named their first, second, and third starters. The White Sox have filled their first spot in the rotation with Garrett Crochet in a somewhat surprising move. They have now gone ahead and filled the second and third [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5066,"featured_media":68914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,2,1071],"tags":[391,28382],"class_list":["post-68896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whitesox","category-featured","category-mlb","tag-erick-fedde","tag-michael-soroka"],"modified_by":"Matt Graves","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5066"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}