White Sox chairman Jerry Reinsdorf turns 90 on Wednesday, and those close to him say he’s aging well. But there’s nothing sharp about the identity of Reinsdorf’s team.
Thorpe, the centerpiece of the Dylan Cease trade package from the Padres during spring training last year, could be back for the second part of next season.
“It’s not ideal, but it’s the game, man,'' Jankowski said. ''And it’s not always the guys who are the most deserving or have played the best; it’s roster construction.”
With two more games following to wrap up White Sox spring training, Noah Schultz and Hagen Smith are the scheduled starting pitchers for the Sox on Saturday.
The elbow problems keep creeping up on the White Sox. The latest came Thursday morning at Camelback Ranch, where right-hander Drew Thorpe left a minor-league game with soreness.
They can talk all they want about turning the page from last year, that historically bad 121-loss season that broke the modern-era record for defeats held for 62 years by the 1962 expansion Mets.
