Michael Kopech is ready for his big league moment.
It might not come for a while, perhaps deep into the 2018 campaign, but if one of the highest-rated pitching prospects in baseball gets the news tomorrow that he's going to start the season on the South Side, his reaction will be obvious: Bring it on.
"I feel like I'm ready," Kopech told reporters Thursday during a visit to a children's hospital ahead of this weekend's SoxFest festivities. "I'm not going to say that I should be there and I deserve to be there because I haven't earned anything yet.