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- Updated: May 4, 2016
CHICAGO — The first three starts at Double-A Birmingham this season for Carson Fulmer featured an uncharacteristic 10 walks and eight strikeouts over 12 2/3 innings.
Luckily for the White Sox No. 1 prospect per MLBPipeline.com, the team isn’t basing the right-hander’s outlook for the immediate future on that small sample.
“It’s a little premature to extrapolate his big league readiness from [five] Double-A starts,” White Sox general manager Rick Hahn told MLB.com. “The more recent ones are obviously better than the first couple. But it’s all part of the development process.”
“He’s making some progress,” assistant general manager Buddy Bell said of Fulmer. “It’s sort of what we’ve seen with a lot of younger guys. The fastball command gets him in trouble a little bit. That’s really the most critical thing for any pitcher. He continues to improve with that just about every start.”
Fulmer, 22, has 47 2/3 Minor League innings since the White Sox selected him eighth overall out of Vanderbilt in the 2015 Draft. His name popped up again on Tuesday when the White Sox designated John Danks for assignment and the fifth starter’s spot opened up …
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