Clevinger a saves option in Chicago

AMERICAN LEAGUE


Chicago White Sox
NEWS: Mike Clevinger could be the team’s preferred first option to close out games.
IMPACT: High
BHQ SPIN: Manager Will Venable mentioned that the team could multiple relievers for save chances, but singled out Mike Clevinger specifically. Even though Clevinger has spent almost all of his career in the rotation, he provides the most proven MLB experience of their other stopper options as well as the big velocity and swing and miss many covet as a ninth-inning option. While things are obviously still in flux, we’ve shifted some projected save percentages around, and now have Clevinger garnering 50% of the Sox projected saves, with smatterings left for Justin Anderson, Gus Varland, Fraser Ellard and

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