Chicago White Sox bullpen is looking very scary this springon March 16, 2021 at 2:00 pm

For one, Liam Hendriks is there now. He gave up a solo shot during Monday’s game against the Chicago Cubs and that has really been his only blunder. He gave up two home runs all of last season and one of them was to Yasmanai Grandal in the playoffs. He is going to bring all that makes him good into the regular season.

Garrett Crochet also gave up a run in that game. Outside of that one run against, he has been lights out as well. These guys are going to give up runs but the elite ones keep them to a minimum. Having a potential starter like Crochet in the bullpen adds to its depth.

Speaking of hard-throwing starters, Michael Kopech is also going to be coming out of the bullpen. In his appearance on Monday, he was magnificent. It looked like he was working on his offspeed stuff a little bit more than usual. He did, of course, have one pitch go by a bat over 100 miles per hour. He knows that is his elite pitch but mixing in the offspeed stuff will surely be a big help.

Sunday’s game showed even more lights out pitching. The White Sox saw Evan Marshall, Codi Heuer, and Aaron Bummer throw gas. Neither of them allowed a single run or hit over 4.2 innings combined. There were only one walk and three strikeouts in that span as well. Performances like this are to be expected from this team going forward.

It is going to be fun watching this team play the way they play. With Crochet and Kopech joining the other typical relievers that they have, it has the potential to be as good of a bullpen as they’ve ever had. As long as Tony La Russa and Ethan Katz manage them properly, they should be one of the best in the league. Hopefully, the spring production so far is a good sign of things to come.