The Winsday greatness continued once more in our total yesterday, as the Marlins-Mets under calmly stayed below the 7 mark. For today, we’re going to make a rare destination into props.
In his first two starts of the season, Gavin Williams has not recorded more than five innings. Well, that’s about to change.
The Chicago White Sox are next on the docket for Williams. You may recall they lost more games last year than any team in Major League history, although on paper, they’re probably not the worst team of all time. On paper, they’re at least better than the 2003 Detroit Tigers (shoutout Wilfredo Ledezma).
Not much has changed for the White Sox in the new campaign. They set infamy a season ago in large part due to a weak offense, finishing dead last in team batting average (.221), on-base percentage (.278), slugging percentage (.340) and home runs (133).
One year later, Chicago is thus far actually worse through its first 11 ballgames, with a collective .202/.276/.315 slash line. In addition, they’ve only launched nine homers.
Sooner or later, those stats should begin to inflate at least closer to average production — but that’s not happening today.
The White Sox will be running into a very good starting pitcher who is in the midst of an ascension. Sure, Williams’ final line in his most recent start didn’t look great, but that could be attributed to a rare José Ramírez error that led to much of the damage (not to mention increased his pitch count) off the former first-round draft choice.