GLENDALE, Ariz.– Manager Pedro Grifol felt the Chicago White Sox had the ability to perform what they felt was essential throughout their very first 5 days of camp with pitchers and catchers.
“We're in a great area for these position gamers to come in and incorporate into our practices,” Grifol stated Sunday at Camelback Ranch.
The position gamers are contributed to the formula Monday with the very first complete team exercise.
“The strategy was to get the pitchers prepared to go, all the introductions with our principles, and after that have one introduction (Monday) with the position gamers and after that ramp them up for the next 4 days (ahead of Friday's Cactus League opener),” Grifol stated. “And then we'll slow it down and get truly technical.
“But for the next 4 days, we'll be addressing a high energy level.”
A lot of the position gamers have actually currently emerged at Camelback Ranch.
As the Sox get in the next stage in configuring their 26-man lineup for opening day, here are 3 concerns dealing with the group.
Which returning gamer will take the next action?
Chicago White Sox designated player Eloy Jiménez strikes versus the New York Yankees at Guaranteed Rate Field on Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023. (Trent Sprague/Chicago Tribune)
Luis Robert Jr. raised his video game in 2023, reaching profession highs in numerous classifications while making his very first All-Star choice.
Which gamer could possibly make a leap in 2024?
Baseman Andrew Vaughn set profession highs in numerous offending classifications in 2023, consisting of home runs (21) and RBIs (80 ).
Throughout recently's spring training sneak peek Zoom call, basic supervisor Chris Getz stated Vaughn “anticipates to take an advance.”
The 2019 season has actually acted as an example of 3rd baseman Yoán Moncada's possible when he struck.315 with 25 crowning achievement and 79 RBIs. He struck.260 with 11 crowning achievement and 40 RBIs in 92 video games throughout a 2023 season that was disrupted on a number of celebrations by back concerns.
Eloy Jiménez played in 120 video games last season, simply shy of his career-best of 122 throughout his novice project of 2019. He had 18 crowning achievement and 64 RBIs, his finest numbers considering that striking 31 crowning achievement and driving in 79 in 2019.
(Moncada is) identified to head out there and have a strong year for us,” Getz stated. “Things need to play out and we need to survive spring training and the early part of the season, and Eloy Jiménez is somebody else. Offensively, we've seen the possible he has. When he's on the field he's really efficient. In 2015, besides the appendectomy, he had actually looked after a great deal of the problems he had in the past from a health perspective. I seem like he's well placed to be efficient regularly, too.”
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