This was always going to happen. Not to slander the abilities of Mr. Dylan Covey, but no Rule 5 pick was going to come to the major leagues, get installed directly in a starting rotation, and not receive a requisite shelling.
Wednesday, Covey got his in New York, as the Yankees pounded him for three home runs, including back-to-back missiles from Starlin Castro and Aaron Judge in the fifth inning. The White Sox were torched 9-1 to wrap up a 5-4 road trip that began in Cleveland and Minnesota.
Covey got some swings-and-misses on his two-seamer, his still-fledgling changeup was promising, but his secondary pitches didn’t throw off hitters’ timing, and they sat on his fastball and drilled everything left up toward the center of the zone.