Richard Lovelady’s addition to the bullpen has given the Cubs more swing-and-miss stuff, while White Sox pitcher Garrett Crochet keeps adjusting in his first season as a starter.
Cubs reliever Richard Lovelady delivers during the seventh inning against the Padres on May 8, 2024, at Wrigley Field. Other than finishing a series against the Minnesota Twins on May 1, the White Sox are facing their only American League Central foe of the month with their current four-game set against the Cleveland Guardians at Guaranteed Rate Field.
In the offseason, Lovelady continued to refine his slider and developed a splitter to help combat that, though he has found some success in five appearances with the Cubs and hasn’t needed to use it. “The guys I’m surrounded by have had a ton of success, but at one time they were where I am right now,” Crochet told the Tribune on Monday in a discussion about the rotation. “I’m just picking their brains on how to get there, how to get to that point. I’ve had a lot of growth, just on the pitching side, being able to pick their brains.”
He recalled an April 23 start in which Fedde did a good job changing the eye level of the batters on the way to 11 strikeouts against the Minnesota Twins. Pirates rookie right-hander Jared Jones, whose 10.40 strikeout-to-walk ratio leads the majors, is lined up to start Friday’s series opener while top prospect and last year’sis being called up to start Saturday at PNC Park. The Cubs announced Thursday that they will start right-hander Javier Assad and left-hander Justin Steele in the first two games while Sunday remains to be determined.Dominic Leone had just exited with lower back tightness.
He has one save, which came against the team he grew up rooting for — the Tampa Bay Rays — on April 28 at Guaranteed Rate Field. Leasure grew up about 45 minutes away from the Rays’ home park and attended games with his grandfather.
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