There was Jake Burger, scoring from second in a simulated game Monday night in Schaumburg.
That might not sound like anything all that impressive. But just seeing Burger, a first-round draft pick in 2017, rounding third and heading for home in any kind of White Sox game is something that hasn’t happened in a long, long time.
Teams have lofty plans for anyone they spend a first-round pick on. The White Sox used the No. 11 pick on Burger, a slugger out of Missouri State University who at the time figured to play a prominent role in the still nascent rebuilding project taking place on the South Side.