How Shane Smith went from Rule-5 pick to the pitcher everyone’s talking about

The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

Chicago Sports Network

Sports, Sports:baseball, Baseball

4.4 • 612 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

It took a lot for Shane Smith to get here. A pandemic wiped out one season. Tommy John surgery ended another. Chuck Garfien speaks with Smith about his baseball journey, how he ended up with the White Sox in the Rule-5 Draft, the pitch mix that has fooled the likes of Shohei Ohtani, Steven Kwan and Jose Ramirez, how much his parents have meant to him in his career and more.

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0:00.0	Rep the South Side whenever you pay with your White Sox debit card from WinTrust Community Banks
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0:25.9	valuable prizes including a customized engraved hat. Hey, Shane. How you doing? Good.
0:32.9	Okay. Hey.
0:34.0	Nice. Good to see it. Take a seat, man. How you doing? All good?
0:38.3	Yeah.
0:39.3	Good, man.
0:40.3	So this is a time like where we got to like start making some roster decisions, you know?
0:44.3	And like the tough part is like with rule five picks, like it just puts a lot of pressure on everybody, right?
0:51.3	Yeah.
0:52.3	Pressure on you to perform pressure on us to make a decision.
0:56.0	It can be tough in most cases.
0:59.0	In your case, it's not tough at all because you absolutely crushed it and we're excited to have
1:05.0	you come with us to Chicago man.
1:07.0	So you made a team.
1:09.0	Congratulations.
1:10.0	Unbelievable job and we're just so excited about the team. Congratulations. Unbelievable job.
1:11.6	And we're just so excited about the prospect of you continuing your career with us at the
1:17.6	big level of Chicago.
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