White Sox Minor League Update: July 15, 2023

Luis Mieses provided the winning hit in a true Game of the Year in Birmingham on Saturday. It wasn’t something any of us foresaw: After a full career of relief over his first three years in the White Sox system, southpaw Sammy Peralta is now starting games, and not really as any sort of opener. And to his credit, now doubling his workload (Peralta averaged about two innings per game in 2022), he’s holding up OK in terms of effectiveness and efficiency. Today’s 4-0 loss is illustrative of this, as Peralta got through four frames using just 53 pitches, and allowing just one earned run — dropping his ERA to 4.29. I’ll let smarter readers than I take a look at his pitch mix today to see if this is just a lark (or the traditional Knights rotation desperation), but perhaps there’s something developing with the 25-year-old bull outta Queens.

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