The White Sox farm system is off to a banged-up start, but a couple of key prospects on the injured list will hopefully get into the box scores on a regular basis starting this week.
The Sox said that Luis Basabe and Zack Burdi will begin rehab stints in Kannapolis on Monday. Basabe is coming off a broken hamate bone in his left hand, which he suffered at the start of spring training. Burdi, who still hasn't reached his pre-Tommy John surgery velocity, was on the shelf with a lat strain.
Since neither player had a proper spring training, the White Sox might want to bring both back slowly. In Basabe's case, there's no rush to get him back to Birmingham immediately given the logjam of Barons outfielders, as well as the availability of outfield reps at both A-ball levels. Give it a couple weeks, and maybe somebody like Joel Booker will force his way into Charlotte, or maybe Blake Rutherford will have to return to Winston-Salem.
In Burdi's case, it'd be nice to see him in Winston-Salem in short order, mostly because the Dash stream their games.
Charlotte 14, Norfolk 3
- Charlie Tilson singled thrice and struck out once.
- Daniel Palka doubled his MLB hit total in one game, going 2-for-5.
- Zack Collins doubled, walked, hit a sac fly and struck out thrice.
- Nicky Delmonico went 3-for-5 with two homers and a sac fly.
- Seby Zavala, 1-for-5 with a double and two strikeouts.
- Danny Mendick's average is down to .200 after going 0-for-5 with a strikeout.
- Ian Hamilton: 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 0 K
Birmingham 10, Jackson 4
- Joel Booker doubled, singled twice, stole two bases and struck out.
- Laz Rivera went 2-for-5 with a strikeout.
- Luis Gonzalez, 1-for-4 with a walk and two strikeouts.
- Gavin Sheets has homered in consecutive games, going 2-for-4 with a walk and a strikeout.
- Micker Adolfo went 2-for-5 with a double and two strikeouts.
- Blake Rutherford, 0-for-3 with a walk.
- Ti'Quan Forbes went 1-for-4 with a strikeout.
- Jimmy Lambert: 5.2 IP, 8 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 2 BB, 9 K, 1 HR
Potomac 7, Winston-Salem 1
- Nick Madrigal went 1-for-3 with an HBP.
- Carlos Perez, 0-for-3.
- John Parke: 4.2 IP, 9 H, 6 R, 6 ER, 1 BB, 4 K
