Earlier this week, Birmingham Barons first baseman Gavin Sheets — South Side Sox’s No. 11 White Sox prospect for 2019 — sat for a long interview with us, which we’re running today in two parts.
We kick it off with a brief discussion of Sheets’s baseball lineage, his amateur career, and some initial impressions upon getting his feet wet in the Chicago organization. Later today comes a longer dive into Sheets’s game, and his determination to arrive on the South Side.
South Side Sox: Your dad, Larry, played professional baseball with the Baltimore Orioles, among other teams (totaling eight seasons, 94 career home runs).