Some White Sox fans had premonitions of doom as their team rolled into Houston last weekend.
With the South Side offense finally firing on, well, most cylinders, who else but the Astros to remind us that we can’t have nice things? Luckily for the Sox, an offseason pickup has proved vital to the team’s rotation, and stopped Dusty Baker’s space cowboys dead in their tracks.
Johnny Cueto, signed very late this offseason, in April, has been sturdy on the mound across his six starts. Following his Tommy John surgery in 2018, the 36-year-old Dominican is now reminding his new fans in Chicago exactly what he was about in the first half of his career: two All-Star appearances, a World Series ring, and three near-misses of a Cy Young Award.