The White Sox announced that they’ve selected the contract of right-hander Bruce Rondon in advance of today’s game against the Tigers, Rondon’s former team.
One of few players capable of reaching 102 MPH on the radar gun, the Tigers had lofty expectations for Rondon from the outset. A 2013 debut in which he pitched to a 3.45 ERA with 9.42 K/9 was certainly encouraging as well. However, Tommy John surgery prevented him from taking the mound for the entire 2014 season, and though he racked up the strikeouts big time the following year, his 2015 campaign ended with him being sent home due to “effort level“.
The righty’s tumultuous tenure with Detroit came to a close this past December, when the club elected to non-tender him rather than pay him a projected $1.2MM arbitration salary. Rondon sat on the market until February 1st, when the South Siders elected to pick him up on a minors pact. All told, Rondon’s upside lies in his velocity and his strikeout ability, but he’ll have to harness his control in order to be effective with his new team.
Good luck with that
Hopefully he can get his head straight. But regardless if he does or not, you know he’s going to kill the Tigs.
He will probably strike out the side on 9 pitches, just because everytime a struggling player leaves the tigers they seem to figure it
Haha exactly. Especially when they play the Tigers. Didn’t Pelf even have an ok game against them last year?
Lol yes he did. Only gave up like 1 run or something
He didn’t give up any runs
UPDATE: He struck out all 4 tiger Batters that he faced. Smh lol
Just came here to say the same lmao. Miggy and Nicholas in there.
You know, like every sox fan says, they have COOP! He’ll fix him
COOP did wonders with Mike Pelfrey. When will the White Sox learn that nothing good comes from picking up Tiger cast offs.
Juan Minaya was optioned down to AAA Charlotte to make room on the 25-man roster for Bruce Rondon. Minaya became the White Sox primary closer last season after they dealt David Robertson to the Yankees ahead of the July 31st summer trade deadline. Minaya finished the season with 10 saves but struggled in spring training and has been even worse once the regular season began.
Meanwhile, Rondon was working on a minor league contract and had a fine spring camp before being re-assigned back to AAA in late March. He pitched in the first of Charlotte’s two games this season and preserved a 6-2 victory with a scoreless 9th inning, allowing one hit and recording a strikeout.
He will become the closer if he keeps pitching the way he did in his debut and something they should do is sent Moncada to the minors he looks lost in the batters box
The more I see Moncada play, the more I think he’s going to be a bust.