<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/mlb/chicago-white-sox/white-sox-news-shane-smith-first-pitcher-unwanted-mlb-territory');   ga('set', 'title', 'White Sox’s Shane Smith becomes first pitcher ever to reach unwanted MLB territory');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Shane-Smith.jpg"></figure><h1>White Sox’s Shane Smith becomes first pitcher ever to reach unwanted MLB territory</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2025-05-10T22:18:05-07:00">May 10th, 10:18pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2025-05-10T22:32:56-07:00">May 10th, 10:32pm</time><address><a>Mike Gianakos</a>Mike Gianakos is the former editor-in-chief of High Times magazine, where he also spearheaded the video department and event production. He is a longtime podcaster and even longer suffering NY Jets fan.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">Chicago White Sox</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>The Chicago White Sox are off to another horrendous start in 2025. With 40 games in the books, Chicago is 11-29 and has already fallen 15 games behind the first-place Detroit Tigers in the AL Central. And despite <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/mlb/chicago-white-sox/white-sox-news-make-pope-leo-xiv-proud-win-over-marlins">making White Sox fan Pope Leo XIV proud</a> by getting a win on his first full day in the Vatican, Chicago was quickly back to its losing ways.</p><p>The White Sox most recent defeat, a 3-2 loss to the Miami Marlins Saturday, was particularly disheartening as it wasted yet another excellent outing from Shane Smith.</p><p>Smith has been one of the team’s very few bright spots in 2025 and on Saturday he continued his impressive rookie campaign, throwing six shutout innings, allowing four hits and no walks while striking out seven.</p><p>Despite yet <a href="https://x.com/OptaSTATS/status/1921385262396895234" rel="noopener">another strong effort</a> from Smith, the White Sox lost. And with the defeat, Smith became the only MLB pitcher with an ERA below 2.50 over his first eight starts to have his team lose seven of the eight starts, according to OptaSTATS on X.</p><h2><b>White Sox pitcher tosses another gem and the team loses yet again</b></h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Shane-Smith2.jpg"><figcaption>Bruce Kluckhohn-Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><p>On the season, Smith is now 1-2 with a 2.08 ERA, 1.08 WHIP, 1.1 bWAR and 38 strikeouts in 43.1 innings. The 25-year-old righty has easily been the White Sox best pitcher this season. But the team has been unable to provide run support as Chicago has been outscored 28-15 in Smith’s starts and the White Sox have gone 1-7, with the team’s sole victory coming in a rain-shortened win over the Twins that was called after seven innings.</p><p>While the White Sox have been the laughingstock of the league of late, culminating in last season’s historically awful campaign during which Chicago lost an MLB-record 121 games, the team, and GM Chris Getz, <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/mlb/chicago-white-sox/white-sox-news-chris-getz-about-shane-smith-emergence">deserves credit for acquiring Smith</a>.</p><p>The rookie hurler signed as an undrafted free agent with the Milwaukee Brewers in 2021. The team was content using him as a reliever in the minors and failed to elevate him. But Getz and the White Sox saw Smith’s potential as a starter and selected him in the Rule 5 draft last December.</p><p>Players taken in the Rule 5 draft are immediately promoted to their new club’s 40-man roster. While Smith had been effective in the Brewers’ farm system, he’s been the White Sox’s best pitcher since joining the team’s Major League rotation.</p><p>Now he just needs some run support. Perhaps the new pope can put in a good word for him.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

White Sox’s Shane Smith becomes first pitcher ever to reach unwanted MLB territory

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/mlb/chicago-white-sox/white-sox-news-chris-getz-about-shane-smith-emergence');   ga('set', 'title', 'Chris Getz opens up about Shane Smith’s sudden emergence');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Shane-Smith.jpg"></figure><h1>Chris Getz opens up about Shane Smith’s sudden emergence</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2025-04-11T16:30:22-07:00">April 11th, 4:30pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2025-04-11T16:41:47-07:00">April 11th, 4:41pm</time><address><a>Mike Gianakos</a>Mike Gianakos is the former editor-in-chief of High Times magazine, where he also spearheaded the video department and event production. He is a longtime podcaster and even longer suffering NY Jets fan.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">Chicago White Sox</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>After setting a new record for the most losses in modern baseball history last season, the Chicago White Sox are off to another poor start in 2025. Former pitcher Lance Lynn <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/mlb/chicago-white-sox/white-sox-news-ex-mlb-player-honest-truth-on-struggles">acknowledged the White Sox’s struggles</a>, saying the organization is “behind everybody” in the majors.</p><p>Despite the obvious dysfunction, Chicago did manage to stumble onto a bright spot when the team selected Shane Smith in the Rule 5 draft this offseason. The 25-year-old rookie starting pitcher made his MLB debut in 2025 and has been a revelation for the White Sox early on.</p><p>Chicago drafted Smith out of the Milwaukee Brewers’ minor league system. A move that made White Sox GM Chris Getz <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6271636/2025/04/11/mlb-minor-league-ballparks/" rel="noopener">look shrewd</a>.</p><p>“It’s not a good feeling. It isn’t. And you reflect back on the process,” Getz said of losing a pitcher in the Rule 5 draft, per Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic. “However, we didn’t see this coming either,” Getz added.</p><h2><b>The White Sox bolstered their rotation with new starter Shane Smith</b></h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Shane-Smith-2.jpg"><figcaption>Rick Scuteri-Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><p>Smith toiled in the Brewers’ farm system for three years after the team signed him as an undrafted free agent in 2021. While he was effective as a minor league pitcher, Smith failed to gain traction, working primarily as a reliever for Milwaukee’s affiliates.</p><p>The White Sox, of all teams, saw Smith’s potential as a starter and scooped him up in the Rule 5 draft last December. All players drafted under Rule 5 immediately jump to their new team’s 40-man roster and must remain on the active roster for the entire season following the draft.</p><p>So far Smith has made the most of his automatic promotion to the majors. He made his MLB debut against the Minnesota Twins on April 1, going 5.2 innings and allowing two runs on two hits with four walks and three strikeouts. Despite his efforts, the White Sox would lose the game 8-2.</p><p>Smith was even more impressive in his second career start as he took a no-hitter into the sixth inning against the Cleveland Guardians. Ultimately, he threw six shutout innings, allowing two hits with one walk and six strikeouts.</p><p>Unfortunately, Smith did not receive any support from the team’s offense as the White Sox were shutout by the Guardians, losing 1-0. Entering Friday, Chicago has scored a MLB-worst 35 runs this season. Despite another brutal start – and zero playoff wins in the last 19 years – owner <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/mlb/chicago-white-sox/white-sox-rumors-jerry-reinsdorf-sale-dumped-cold-water">Jerry Reinsdorf refuses to sell the team</a>.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

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IP	ERA	K	WHIP	WINS
32	3.38	11	0.84	1

2025 SEASON STATS
IP	ERA	K	WHIP	WINS
32	3.38	11	0.84	1

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