Why 2026 could be the year for Noah Schultz

The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

Chicago Sports Network

Sports, Sports:baseball, Baseball

4.7 • 620 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2026

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Chuck Garfien sits down with White Sox top prospect Noah Schultz to break down the growth he’s made since being drafted and how adversity shaped his 2025 season. Schultz opens up about battling knee tendinitis, what he learned during the downtime, and why he’s entering 2026 confident and ready for a bounce-back year. He also explains how simplifying his mechanics has taken his game to another level. Schultz talks about his offseason workouts alongside Luis Robert Jr., Juan Soto, Mark Vientos, and Joey Gallo, and what he’s picked up from training with them. He talks about how he looked up to future Hall of Famer Clayton Kershaw and the process behind developing his signature pitch. Plus, Chuck asks whether he’s looking forward to a future showdown with new Sox slugger Munetaka Murakami.

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0:00.0	Are you ready for your winning moment?
0:02.6	Find it at Wind Creek, Chicago, Southland, where the action never stops.
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0:17.7	...women. around every corner.
0:25.4	Hey, everybody.
0:26.3	It's Chuck Arfine.
0:28.9	Welcome to the White Sox podcast. It is coming to you, as always, by our great friends at Wind Creek, Chicago, Southland.
0:35.4	As our podcast, Palooza continues here from Glendale, Arizona.
0:40.1	And today on the podcast, we've got a great guest.
0:42.5	It's one of the top pitching prospects with the White Sox.
0:45.5	It is Noah Schultz, who, yeah, you had a rough season last year on the mound and physically.
0:51.9	But as you're going to hear in this conversation, he is gearing up for what could be a special season. Now, he is not specifically saying that.
1:01.0	Maybe it's just me who is saying it and feeling it, and you'll see why in this conversation
1:08.0	that I have with Noah, who looks a lot different right now.
1:13.6	He has gained a whole lot of muscle, and I think he's growing as a person as well as you're going to hear in this conversation.
1:20.6	He's going to tell you the two guys here in camp that he really wants to face in live batting practice.
1:26.6	Two guys that's going to reveal a lot about the confidence that he really wants to face in live batting practice. Two guys that's going to reveal
1:29.4	a lot about the confidence that he has. And he's going to talk about this upcoming season and
1:36.2	the sleeper prospect in this camp. There is actually someone who thinks that Noah's going to be
1:42.3	a big sleeper for this team, but he's going to share
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