Ep. 225: Don Cooper with the inside scoop on the White Sox pitching staff

The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

Chicago Sports Network

Sports, Sports:baseball, Baseball

4.4 • 612 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

With the regular season getting closer, Chuck Garfien gets the goods from Don Cooper about many White Sox pitchers. The decision to have Carlos Rodon start on Opening Day (3:00), what Lucas Giolito needs to improve on in 2019 (6:16), what they're doing to make Ivan Nova a better pitcher this year (8:10), improving Ervin Santana's velocity and will he be the fifth starter? (11:50), what Dylan Cease needs to work on in the minors (13:20), what other pitching prospect besides Cease will take the biggest stride in 2019? (14:30)Coop also talks about Kelvin Herrera, Alex Colome, Zach Thompson, Thyago Vieira, Nate Jones and more.

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0:23.5	You are listening to The White Sox Talk Podcast.
0:27.6	As always, brought you by Win Trust Community Bank, Chuck Arfine, here on my final day.
0:33.9	Final day at Camelback Ranch before heading back to Chicago for a few days.
0:38.3	And then it is on to Kansas City for the season opener.
0:43.0	March 28th, a game you can see on NBC Sports Chicago.
0:48.1	Will Eloy Jimenez be in the lineup that day?
0:52.3	All signs certainly pointing in that direction, nothing official
0:55.9	yet from the White Sox on a long-term deal. But when the White Sox do face the Royals, I'd like to think
1:01.2	that Jimenez will be making his major league debut with the Sox. Until then, I sat down with Don
1:10.3	Cooper. And as usual, he gave us the inside scoop on the White Sox. Until then, I sat down with Don Cooper. And as usual, he gave us the inside scoop
1:13.6	on the White Sox pitching staff. We hit on all the starters, Carlos Rodan and Ronda Lopez. Coop
1:19.7	talks about what Lucas G. Alito needs to do to improve on this year. What the White Sox are
1:24.1	doing to make Yvonne Nova the best pitcher he can be in 2019.
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