Baseball America's latest recap of minor league transactions shows the White Sox thinning out their ranks across the board. They signed Kyle Crick and added him to Charlotte, where he's thrown a couple of scoreless innings, but the rest are departures:
- Pitchers: Sal Biasi, Danny Dopico, Tayron Guerrero, Connor Sadzeck, Cameron Beauchamp
- Position players: Lency Delgado, EP Reese, Nick Williams
It's been quite the fall for Williams, if only because he shouldn't have ever risen to cleanup hitter in April, but that seems like ancient history now. Guerrero and Sadzeck both seemed like they had the potential to contribute to the White Sox from the NRI pool, but they instead added to the Charlotte bullpen's struggles. I never quite understood why Dopico got most of the assignments he did, but after walking 27 batters over 19⅔ innings with the Knights, everybody's seeing the same things now.
Delgado was the rare-at-the-time fourth-round pick out of high school in 2018, but the lost year looks like a missing link. He went from posting a .274/.325/.377 line with a 37.5 strikeout rate in Great Falls in 2019 to .194/.256/.313 with 50.3 percent strikeout rate over 157 plate appearances for Kannapolis this season.
Mississippi 1, Birmingham 0
- Romy Gonzalez went 0-for-4 with three strikeouts.
- Yolbert Sanchez, 0-for-4.
- Carlos Pérez was 0-for-3 with a walk and a K.
Carolina 6, Kannapolis 4 (12 innings)
- Jose Rodriguez went 2-for-5 with two doubles and a walk. He was also caught stealing.
- Wilber Sanchez, 1-for-5 with four strikeouts and two stolen bases.
- Bryan Ramos was 1-for-4 with and HBP and two strikeouts.
- Harvin Mendoza went 2-for-5 with a walk and a strikeout.
- DJ Gladney singled, walked thrice and struck out twice.
- Cabera Weaver went 1-for-5 with an HBP and a strikeout, and was caught stealing.
- Chase Krogman wore the platinum sombrero.
- James Beard singled, walked, struck out thrice and stole a base.
- Jared Kelley's best start yet: 4 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 2 K, 3 WP
- Yoelvin Silven: 1.2 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 K, 1 WP
Notes:
*The Cannon Ballers went 3-for-25 with runners in scoring position and struck out 20 times.
ACL White Sox, ACL Dodgers 3
- Colson Montgomery doubled, got plunked, struck out twice and committed a throwing error.
- Misael Gonzalez went 2-for-4 with a homer, double and strikeout.
- Wes Kath also went 2-for-4 with a strikeout.
- Wilfred Veras, 1-for-3 with a walk and a strikeout.
- Adam Hackenberg was 0-for-3 with a walk.
- Shawn Goosenberg went 1-for-4 with a double and two strikeouts.
- Logan Glass was 0-for-4 with two strikeouts.
- Benyamin Bailey struck out all four times.
- Progress for Ronaldo Guzman: 4 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 5 K
- Taylor Broadway's pro debut: 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 K
- Erick Bello: 1 IP, 3 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 2 K
DSL Mariners 4, DSL White Sox 1
- Manuel Guariman went 1-for-3.
- Randel Mondesi was 0-for-3 with a K.
Charlotte at Gwinnett PPD
Winston-Salem at Asheville PPD
(Photo of Nick Williams by Laura Wolff / Charlotte Knights)
