The White Sox didn't seem like they were going to give Yasmani Grandal a ticket out of town anytime soon when I wrote about it a few days ago, because it hasn't seemed like Korey Lee is fully operational.
There's the fact that he's 7-for-28 with no extra-base hits, no walks and 10 strikeouts over eight games with Charlotte, but he's also played just short of regularly, especially since the Sox can rotate him to DH with Adam Hackenberg behind the plate. Between learning to catch White Sox pitchers, and maybe some residual effects from his strained oblique, I thought he might be looking at a little bit of an onboarding process.
But maybe not, at least if Pedro Grifol can be trusted (he can't). Nevertheless, he did offer his forecast of changes that might be coming to the catching ranks in the near future:
Gwinnett 10, Charlotte 7
- Adam Hackenberg went 1-for-4.
- Jordan Leasure: 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 2 K
Montgomery 9, Birmingham 2 (5 innings)
- José Rodríguez was 0-for-3.
- Terrell Tatum was 0-for-2 with an HBP and a strikeout.
- Bryan Ramos went 2-for-3 with his 11th homer.
- Wilfred Veras doubled and struck out twice.
- Edgar Quero, 1-for-3 with a K.
- Yoelqui Céspedes struck out in both plate appearaces.
- Jake Eder: 3 IP, 6 H, 7 R, 7 ER, 2 BB, 5 K, 1 HR, 2 HBP, 48 of 69 pitches for strikes.
- Jared Kelley: 2 IP, 3 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 2 K, 1 HR
Winston-Salem 7, Rome 2
- Jacob Burke went 1-for-5 with two strikeouts.
- Brooks Baldwin, 1-for-5.
- Wes Kath was 1-for-4 with a walk and two strikeouts.
- Mason Adams' High-A debut: 6 IP, 6 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 2 BB, 3 K, 1 HR
Down East 5, Kannapolis 2
- Jacob Gonzalez went 1-for-3 with a sac fly and a strikeout.
- Calvin Harris was 1-for-3 with a walk.
- Eddie Park, 0-for-4 with two strikeouts.
- Jacob Sprinkle was 1-for-4 with a K.
- Noah Schultz: 3.1 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 5 K, 36 of 56 pitches for strikes.
