This year's Chicago White Sox bullpen looks to build off last year's first-half success. Let's just forget about the second half because we got hit hard by the injury bug.
D.J. Carrasco
Octavio Dotel
Bobby Jenks
Scott Linebrink
Matt Thornton
Ehren Wassermann
This group should compose the main force in our bullpen this season along with whoever loses the starting pitcher job between Richard Clayton and Lance Broadway.
Carrasco is a great inning eater especially in those games where the starter doesn't last long. Dotel is a fireballer that is good for seventh-innings and situational right-handed pitching. Dotel tends to give up some homers though. Jenks is the human torch when it comes to throwing a baseball. The man hits 98 often but he struggled a little in the closer role last year. He should rebound this year as long as he stays healthy.
Linebrink is a great set-up man that relies on craftyness more than power. He got hurt last year mainly due to his age and I don't expect an injury-free campaign this year either. Thorton is an amazing lefty in our bullpen. He is great for seventh spots and left handed specialties. If he wasn't a bullpen specialists he would be an all-star easy. Wassermann stinks. That is all.
The bullpen looks good, but it really relies on the ability of our very few left-handers. I don't feel horrible going to Dotel-Linebrink-Jenks for the 7-8-9 but when one of them gets hurt, it won't be pretty.
Grade: B
Needs consistancy to be any kind of force this season.
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