White Sox morning roundup

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From yesterday:

Barring something unexpected, Eduardo Escobar will be on the White Sox Opening Day roster as the Sox eliminated most of his competition by sending Dan Johnson and Dallas McPherson to minor league camp. Escobar went 0-4 in Tuesday's game, lowering his spring OPS to a measly .974. James has an enjoyable writeup on Escobar, which can be found here.

Speaking of Tuesday's game, Brent Morel and Alejandro De Aza homered as the White Sox downed Cleveland 7-1. More importantly, Zach Stewart allowed one run on three hits with one walk and one strikeout in 5 13 innings, helping his case to land a long relief role in the White Sox bullpen. Coming into the game, Fornelli had Stewart ahead of Axelrod in his pitcher power poll, and that gap was only widened Tuesday.

Of note: Not that it really matters, but hey, the Sox have won eight of their last 11 Cactus League games. Given how bad spring training has been results-wise for the Sox in recent years (and even earlier this month), this little run is in some small way gratifying.

Also gratifying: Looking back at Magglio Ordonez's time with the White Sox. I know his move to Detroit ticked off some people, but the guy did have a really nice career in Chicago.

Around the division: Bruce Chen is going to start for Kansas City on Opening Day, Jim Leyland doesn't care about Brandon Inge's spring stats (maybe, though he should care about Inge's .548 OPS last year), former Indians top prospects Lonnie Chisenhall and Matt LaPorta failed to make the team out of spring training and there's probably some horrible pun to be made about the Twins sending Jeff Manship to the depths of the minors.

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