The White Sox originally hoped for a world where top lefty pitching prospects Noah Schultz and Hagen Smith pushed to make their major league debuts in 2025, and both cleared the 100-inning threshold for the first time in their lives.
Instead, both missed time due to injury. After some elbow soreness earlier in the year, two postseason starts and an encouraging stint in the Arizona Fall League nearly got Smith to triple digits, but fell a little short at 98⅔. Schultz wasn’t able to take on the extra work, as the White Sox shut him down due to patellar tendinitis after 73 innings at the end of August. The experience of this year might ward the Sox off from assuming anything, but their same ambitions will just carry over to the new season.
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