\n White Sox pitcher Noah Schultz throws during a spring training baseball game in February.
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Oswego native Noah Schultz will make a second trip to the MLB Futures Game on July 12 in Atlanta.<\/p>\n
Lineups for this year’s Futures Game were announced Monday. Schultz and outfielder Braden Montgomery will represent the White Sox. Outfielder Owen Caissie and right-handed pitcher Jaxon Wiggins were chosen from the Cubs.<\/p>\n
Schultz, a 6-foot-10 left-hander, was charged with 3 earned runs in last year’s game in one-third of an inning.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wouldn’t say I was the happiest with my outing, but I know the experience as a whole is one I won’t forget,\u201d Schultz said in a Zoom call with reporters. \u201cMy family got to go out and I’m really excited for this year too. It’s an honor.\u201d<\/p>\n
The No. 26 overall draft pick in 2022 out of Oswego East High School, Schultz is the White Sox’s top-rated prospect by MLB Pipeline. He’s No. 13 overall and the highest-rated left-handed pitcher.<\/p>\n
After posting a 3.34 ERA in 12 starts at Double-A Birmingham, he was promoted to Charlotte a couple weeks ago. His first two starts in Triple-A have been rough, with 11 earned runs allowed. But the step up in competition is a challenge he felt ready for.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy first outing, I felt like I had really good command with my fastball, but not great for the off-speed,\u201d Schultz said. \u201cI was hanging stuff a little bit. Then the opposite last week.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s definitely something I’m confident I can handle. The results haven’t necessarily been there, but I’m working on a lot of things. There’s a lot of things I’m excited to work on the rest of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n
The organization’s goal for Schultz this year was to pitch on a major-league schedule \u2014 every fifth day, instead of once a week like last year. He’s also going deeper into games this season.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m really happy with how my body feels and how I’ve been able to stay healthy throughout the year,\u201d he said. \u201cDefinitely staying strong and (holding) velocity through the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
It doesn’t seem likely Schultz will make his major-league debut this year, but the start of next season could be realistic. White Sox director of player development Paul Janish explained the reasoning behind moving up a level.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just thought that it was a good opportunity to challenge Noah,\u201d Janish said. \u201cThere’s just better hitters, it’s a tougher league to pitch in. Charlotte’s obviously an offensive park, so it’s all in an effort to kind of keep pushing him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Montgomery was Boston’s first-round pick last year, No. 12 overall, out of Texas A&M, then joined the White Sox in the Garrett Crochet trade. He’s playing at Class-A Winston-Salem.<\/p>\n
On the Cubs’ side, Caissie, 22, is the team’s top-rated prospect, No. 42 overall. He’s hitting .263 with 12 home runs in his second season at Triple-A Iowa. Wiggins was a second-round pick of the Cubs in 2023 after missing his final year of college at Arkansas with an injury. He’s posted a 2.38 ERA in his first seven starts at Double-A Knoxville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"White Sox pitcher Noah Schultz throws during a spring training baseball game in February. AP Oswego native Noah…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2379],"tags":[5,138,24,49,2561,4,3892,185,2462,6407,396,2562],"class_list":{"0":"post-142710","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-white-sox","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-cubs","11":"tag-chicago-white-sox","12":"tag-chicagowhitesox","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-pro-sports","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-sports-leagues","17":"tag-sports-types","18":"tag-white-sox","19":"tag-whitesox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114774528788333655","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}