Danny Mendick won't make or break a White Sox team in a given year -- see 2019-2022 for details -- but when you're seeing what he's doing in Charlotte, and what Lenyn Sosa and Braden Shewmake are offering the club on the 26-man roster, it might be time for a switcheroo.
Mendick has homered in all five games of what's turning into a revenge series against the Syracuse Mets. In the process, he's raised his line from .268/.358/.585 to .317/.388/.817. He has eight homers when the entire White Sox team has 10.
His competition, on the other hand:
- Shewmake: .156/.176/.281 over 34 PA
- Sosa: .143/.167/.200 over 37 PA
In other news regarding players whose prospect eligibility ended years ago:
*Tommy Pham began what's presumably a tune-up with Charlotte on Saturday by going 1-for-4 with a double.
*Mike Clevinger is active in Arizona.
Syracuse 11, Charlotte 6 (10 innings)
- Oscar Colás was 1-for-4 with a triple.
- Tommy Pham made his organizational debut, going 1-for-4 with a double.
- Zach DeLoach was 0-for-4 with two strikeouts.
- Adam Hackenberg went 1-for-4 with two strikeouts.
- Jared Shuster: 4 IP, 5 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 2 K
Birmingham 1, Mississippi 0 (Game 1, 7 innings)
- Terrell Tatum went 1-for-3 with a stolen base.
- Brooks Baldwin and Bryan Ramos both were 0-for-3 with a K.
- Edgar Quero went 1-for-2 with a walk.
- Tim Elko and Jacob Burke both were 1-for-3 with a K.
- Duke Ellis pinch-ran and stole two more bases.
- Jairo Iriarte: 5 IP, 4 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 6 K
Winston-Salem 6, Bowling Green 4
- Loidel Chapelli went 1-for-4 with a walk and two strikeouts.
- Jacob Gonzalez was 1-for-4 with a walk.
- DJ Gladney doubled, got plunked and struck out twice.
- Noah Schultz: 4 IP, 1 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 3 BB, 6 K, 2 WP, 37 of 63 pitches for strikes.
