It is time for FutureSox writers to huddle and come up with a mid-season Top 30 prospects list. And that means it is time to take a closer look at Blake Rutherford. Blake’s uneven results last year prompted him to fall off the end-of-season list. And I don’t see him sneaking back on, though he’s much-improved […]
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Carlos Pérez strikes out just 8 percent of the time, making him the toughest player with 200 plate appearances to fan in the International League. But what gives him such a nice upside is that he is also really good at connecting with pitches in the strike zone, with his team-leading 57 percent in-zone hit rate.
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The Knights’ 8-1 rain-shortened loss at home on Sunday was typical of most of the team’s games this season: The pitching staff puts the club in such a huge deficit so early that the offense finds itself in too big a hole to battle back. Coming into Sunday’s contest, however, the team had by far
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The Knights don’t win a lot of games, but they seem to have a penchant for walk-off double header sweeps. It was almost one year ago (Aug. 18, 2021) that the Knights swept the Norfolk Tides in Charlotte, including a game in which former outfielder Mikie Mahtook hit a walk-off grand slam. In the
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Now that the trade deadline has passed — with a whimper, in Chicago, at least — the only help that the White Sox can get is in Charlotte or possibly Birmingham. So it is a good time to check in on the status of the guys on the Knights’ squad who are on the 40-man
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I sat down recently with pitching coach Matt Zaleski to assess the Knights’ pitching staff as we approach the All-Star break. Our chat happened to coincide with a noticable change in Knights’ baseball — the games are more competitive! Zaleski explains what’s up. You’re managing 18 to 20 guys a week. How hard is that? Well,
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Don’t look now but a more dependable pitching staff may be taking shape in Charlotte. Pitching coach Matt Zaleski thinks so, and the results of the past few weeks bear him out. A mysterious change in the staff’s philosophy may be driving the results. To be sure, part of the improvement stems from the normal ebbs
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Ryan Newman is in his first year as infield coordinator for the White Sox. He is the son of former major league player and coach Jeff Newman, and has been in the White Sox system for 14 years as a manager and coach. Newman is filling in this week for Knights’ acting manager Julio Mosquera
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As the White Sox struggle to put a healthy lineup on the field, the trickle-down effect is taking a heavy toll on the Charlotte Knights. The situation got so dire that the team had to rush a reserve outfielder from Low-A Kannapolis to Massachusetts Friday for the Knights’ series against the WooSox. The Knights’ pitching staff
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There’s every indication that the MILB pitch clock is coming to the big leagues next year. We know how many players feel about it. But what do the pitch-clock operators themselves think? Some of their insights will surprise you. Zak Gonzalez and Brad Kopp are among the pitch-clock operators for the Charlotte Knights, and also
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