Where is the White Sox pitching lab?

[caulfield12]

The Mets are one of the oldest teams in baseball... the White Sox similarly weighed down by underperforming vets (roughly half the payroll), but the one thing they have in common is almost 100% imported pitching. 

I think it will be truly fascinating to see how the Mets, Sox, Padres and Mariners in particular will approach the deadline... same with the Reds Marlins Orioles Rangers Guardians/Twins on the other side of it. 

And if the White Sox are even aware of the existence of internal pitching labs across the sport today? 

 

"Top-end pitching is especially expensive, and the Mets have had to shop for nearly all of their starters. Of the nine pitchers who have made at least one start for the team this year, only three were originally drafted or signed by New York.

“We haven't really developed that many pitchers, which is actually pretty shocking. I mean, we're certainly capable of doing it,” Cohen said. “We may not have had the right infrastructure in place. Like, we just opened up our pitching lab. Well, guess what? Other teams had pitching labs six, seven, eight years ago. And so, we’re behind.”

Cohen knew this coming in, and so did savvy Mets fans. The plan all along was to transition a longstanding punchline of a franchise into a perpetual-motion machine able to add selectively from the free-agent market, akin to the Los Angeles Dodgers. The largess was supposed to buy the team early access to contention.

If that doesn’t work, fans shouldn’t be worried because Steve Cohen wasted his money; they should be worried because the process of building a contender from scratch has just barely begun."

 

https://sports.yahoo.com/the-narrative-arc-of-steve-cohens-new-york-mets-is-much-bigger-than-this-year-002948396.html

Edited June 29, 2023 by caulfield12

[caulfield12]

 

https://theathletic.com/2485969/2021/03/30/a-pitching-powerhouse-inside-how-the-mets-aim-to-revamp-pitching-development-with-their-own-lab/

This article is from spring training 2021, by the way... 

 

The entire White Sox rotation is imported from other teams.

Sale Dunning and Bassitt are the names that stand out today...as Q was earlier with both the Yankees and Mets in the minors. 

 

Needless to say, we're pretty much the opposite of the Guardians and Twins on the pitching front. 

Edited June 29, 2023 by caulfield12