Chicago − As you watched right-hander Reese Olson mow down White Sox hitters in his Major League debut Friday night, you had to wonder. How the heck did he have an ERA over 6.0 and 1.7 WHIP against Triple-A hitters?
Olson, 23, has been summoned from Toledo to take the rotation spot of injured ace Eduardo Rodriguez. The club’s No. 11 prospect hardly seemed fazed by the level, by the hostile stage at Guaranteed Rate Field or by some of the household names he had to face.
In what ended up a rather anticlimactic 3-0 White Sox win, Olson didn’t allow a hit and faced two batters over the minimum through five innings.