Steve Cishek just keeps going about his business
It was pretty clear Steve Cishek struggled a bit with the Chicago Cubs last year due to overwork. But to invoke the gods and have 100 games of the season chomped out due to pandemic is a pretty extreme measure.
But Cishek, laden with ice after his first "official" outing of Summer Camp, during the four-inning affair at Sox Park, is definitely ready to get down to business now, proclaiming himself willing to give the White Sox his typical workload in a 60-game stretch.
Cishek betrays his experience in coming out with such a reasoned goal, in contrast to fellow reliever on the dais Aaron Bummer, who practically volunteered for daily duty to push the White Sox into the playoffs.
That doesn't mean the righty isn't ready.
"Early in the season, starters are trying to stretch out ... and if they need to come out in three, four innings, the bullpen can take the rest," he says. "We have a pretty deep bullpen."
Personally, "I'm pretty fresh right now, almost like start of spring training soreness, and that's a good thing. Once I get through that, I feel like I can pitch through a lot."
The full Cishek media session is below, courtesy of the Chicago White Sox:
Actor (final credit: murdered by Albert Einstein in "Carnage Hall"), musician (Ethnocentric Republicans), and Nerf hoops champion, Wiffleball aficionado and onetime bilingual kindergarten teacher, Brett Ballantini also writes about baseball, basketball and sometimes hockey, for the NBA, MLB, NHL, and Slam, Hoop, Sporting News, the Athletic, SB Nation and others. He was CSN Chicago’s Blackhawks beat writer when their 49-year Stanley Cup drought ended in 2009-10, and took over the White Sox beat after that. He currently is the editor-in-chief of South Side Hit Pen and beat writer for Inside the Rays. He also wrote a book about Ozzie Guillén but is running out of space, so follow him on Twitter @BrettBallantini and he'll probably tell you even more about himself than you ever wanted to know.