Why Tanner McDougal Is One to Watch + Ryan Borucki Knows His White Sox

The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

Chicago Sports Network

Sports, Sports:baseball, Baseball

4.7 • 620 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Chuck Garfien’s Spring Training Podcast-pa-looza keeps rolling with White Sox pitching prospect Tanner McDougal, who opens up about the adversity he faced in 2024 and the adjustments that fueled his resurgence in 2025. He shares what he learned during the toughest stretch of his career and how that shaped his mentality heading into camp. McDougal also dives into some lighter moments, including his first taste of Malört at SoxFest and explains how events like the club’s annual spring golf outing help strengthen the bond throughout the organization. The Las Vegas native reflects on growing up in the desert, the path that led him to pro ball, and his connection to White Sox legend Frank Thomas. Plus, he names a sleeper prospect Sox fans should circle for 2026. Later, Chuck catches up with White Sox reliever Ryan Borucki, the Mundelein, Illinois native who grew up a diehard Sox fan. Borucki shows off his South Side roots by rattling off the entire 2005 lineup and talks about what it means to wear the uniform of the team he followed as a kid.

Transcript

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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.
0:07.6	Play the hottest table games.
0:09.3	Enjoy the newest slots and celebrate big jackpots.
0:12.9	At Win Creek, there's a win waiting for you around every corner.
0:17.7	...women. around every corner.
0:26.2	Hey, everyone, it's Chuck Arfine.
0:28.3	Welcome to the White Sox podcast.
0:33.1	It is brought to you, as always, by Wind Creek Casino, Chicago, Southland.
0:38.6	And we are having what I like to call a podcast Palooza here at Camelback Ranch.
0:41.9	Three podcasts so far this week, Anthony Kaye.
0:43.5	Actually, no, four podcasts this week.
0:46.7	James Fegan got it started on Tuesday.
0:51.0	Then it was Anthony Kay, Mike Vassel, and today it's a conversation.
0:53.2	Actually, we have two conversations in this one.
0:59.9	Tanner McDougal, who is a pitching prospect for you all to watch, not only here in spring training, but throughout the season because McDougal, there's a high-velocity arm right
1:05.5	there.
1:06.5	It throws 98 to 100.
1:08.2	He's going to talk about his struggles in 2023 and 24, but how in 2025 he really turned it on.
1:16.6	28 starts in Winston-Salem in Birmingham, a 3.26
1:21.6	CRA, 136Ks in 11313 innings, and he was big in the playoffs
1:25.6	for the Birmingham Barrenons as they won their second
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