3 White Sox who have no business being on MLB roster
The Chicago White Sox are a very good baseball team. Thier record doesn’t reflect it yet as they have gotten off to a very bad start but things will get better. They are too talented not to turn things around. They just have to hope that it comes sooner rather than later.
In order to get back to the level that they want to be at, they need to get healthy. There have been some significant injuries to key players. Guys like Yoan Moncada, Lance Lynn, Lucas Giolito, AJ Pollock, Eloy Jimenez, Luis Robert, and Joe Kelly amongst others have all either missed time or are still gone.
When this roster is at full strength, there are few teams in the American League that are as good as them. They also have to play to their strengths to reach that potential. As a result of some of these injuries, there are a few players on the active roster that have no business being in Major League Baseball.
This isn’t anything against those guys. They just are better served for now in the Minor Leagues until they (if ever) are ready for Major League games. Sometimes, there are guys that teams have faith in but it just doesn’t work out.
The Chicago White Sox have a few players that won’t be there in the long term.
Other times, there are players that get their chance and just look completely overmatched. In the case of the White Sox, they just need to get their starters all healthy to reach their true potential. These are the three players that shouldn’t be on the MLB roster for much longer:
player. 128. . RP. Chicago White Sox. Anderson Severino. 62
The Chicago White Sox can’t be trotting out Anderson Severino much longer.
The Chicago White Sox has a lot of really good pitchers in the bullpen and in the starting rotation. Anderson Severino is not one of them. He has had some trouble adapting to Major League hitters and still has a lot to work on before he tries to stay in the show full time.
A contending team shouldn’t be having someone like this on the mound as often as the White Sox have. He has pitched in 7.0 innings over five games. In those games, he has eight strikeouts which are nice but he has a 6.43 ERA and a 1.571 WHIP.
He has pretty much only come in when the White Sox are losing big which isn’t necessarily fair to him either but he has a -0.1 WAR on the season. Things are not looking good for him in terms of staying on the roster in the long term.
By the time this team gets a bit healthier or is forced to go from 28 to 26 roster spots, you’d have to figure that Severino is one of the main candidates to be sent back down to AAA. This won’t be bad for him as he will still be given the opportunity to pitch down there so he can continue improving his game.
20. player. 128. . 2B. Chicago White Sox. Danny Mendick
The Chicago White Sox don’t need to be having Danny Mendick on the roster.
It is bad enough that Leury Garcia and Josh Harrison are the second base/shortstop/third base backups on this team that are getting regular playing time. That means that Danny Mendick has even less business being on the field for a team with championship aspirations.
He is a pretty good defender and nobody is denying that. He is just an atrocious hitter that doesn’t seem like he is getting any better any time soon. He is off to a good start offensively so he might stick around for a little while longer but he just doesn’t seem to be the guy that helps this team win championships.
His days are probably numbered because of a few different things. When Yoan Moncada comes back, he will be the everyday third baseman. That makes Jake Burger’s time at third numbered but he has proven that his bat is needed in the lineup.
If Burger makes the switch to second base, Mendick has no more room on the team. They might as well let Danny go down to AAA so he can keep working on his hitting while playing great defense. If he is sent down on May 1st, that won’t be the last time we see him.
128. . SP. Chicago White Sox. Dallas Keuchel. 60. player
The Chicago White Sox needs to cut ties with Dallas Keuchel as he doesn’t help.
Dallas Keuchel was a brilliant pitcher during the 2020 season. It was a shortened season but he was one of the very best pitchers on the Chicago White Sox staff en route to their first playoff appearance in years. Things have changed.
Dallas Keuchel was okay in the first half of 2021 but things fell off for him quickly. He was eventually so bad that he was left off the 2022 playoff roster. He probably didn’t like it very much but when you are bad you should not be pitching for an elite team.
Well, things have not gotten better for Keuchel in 2022. He is one of the few pitchers that has not benefited from having Ethan Katz as his pitching coach. So far this year, he has a 9.00 ERA and a WHIP over 2 which are just horrendous stats. His WAR sits at -0.7 so he is a literal detriment to the Chicago White Sox.
It is honestly tough to see because this is a guy who has won a Cy Young, a World Series championship, five Gold Gloves, and has been an all-star twice. Seeing him struggle the way that he has isn’t fun but they can’t keep using him like this.
They pretty much don’t have a chance to win every fifth day because he has no command. He will walk the bases loaded and then finally get one over the plate but the opponent will lace it to the gap for a double. The White Sox are way too good to be using players like this in the year 2022.
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