Pedro Grifol took in Monday’s Chicago White Sox recreation from a unique vantage level.
Serving a one-game suspension as a part of the fallout from Saturday’s Sox-Cleveland Guardians brawl, Grifol watched the collection opener in opposition to the New York Yankees from Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf’s suite at Guaranteed Rate Field.
He tried to benefit from the view.
“That saying that the farther you are away from the game, the slower it is or the easier it gets? It looked pretty slow and pretty easy from up there,” Grifol mentioned earlier than Tuesday’s recreation. “It was fairly good. I used to be capable of see a number of issues that I believe are actually essential for our development, basic issues that we in all probability want to handle.
“Obviously I didn’t want to (not be managing). But I took advantage of a different look to see some things that I wanted to address.”
Grifol was certainly one of six people to obtain suspensions from Major League Baseball after the incident. That listing consists of Sox shortstop Tim Anderson, who’s interesting his six-game suspension.
Grifol mentioned the Sox hadn’t heard something in regard to Anderson’s attraction. Anderson was not within the beginning lineup Tuesday as he recovers from a bruised left forearm after getting hit by a pitch in Monday’s recreation.
“TA’s a little stiff today,” Grifol mentioned. “He was (originally) in the lineup, but obviously we chose to not push it. He’s good. All the X-rays were negative. Just give him one more day to get ready for tomorrow.”
Grifol was again within the dugout Tuesday. He noticed some worth in Monday’s perspective.
“The game is seen a different way,” he mentioned. “I bear in mind scouting, I used to be taught that should you lower the sector in half and concentrate on catcher, third base, shortstop and left discipline pre-pitch, you’re capable of have them in your sights and see pre-pitch. And then do it to the opposite facet as nicely.
“I was able to do that yesterday and it was pretty valuable for me. I took a lot of notes and there’s a lot of things we’ll go over as a staff.”
Grifol was reminded of his scouting days within the Seattle Mariners group.
“My first six years were in scouting,” he mentioned. “And once you’re a discipline coordinator and farm director, you’re up there so much, taking notes. It’s only a completely different look. But I used to search out these days very precious since you see issues that you may’t see from the dugout.
“Anytime I would go into an affiliate, I would be there at least seven days and my first two days were always in the stands. And then my next four or five days would be in the dugout with the notes I took the previous days. It is a different look. It’s a very important look too.”
The Sox are persevering with to take seems to be at pitchers for potential future matches. Monday that included a scoreless two-thirds of an inning from Brent Honeywell. The Sox claimed the right-hander off waivers from the San Diego Padres on Saturday. He has frolicked within the majors with the Tampa Bay Rays (2021) and Padres (2023).
“I felt just a little rusty,” Honeywell mentioned Tuesday. “I didn’t play catch for a couple of days. Threw off the mound twice, but other than that I’ve faced that (Yankees) team over there more times than any team I’ve faced in the big leagues. I made my debut against them. Faced them again this year. I knew it was going to be a little bit of a fight out there but got the job done.”
Lane Ramsey bought his first profession strikeout Monday in his second big-league look.
While a part of these ultimate two months might be used for analysis, Grifol mentioned the Sox will hold presenting instructing moments.
“I don’t think you ever stop teaching,” he mentioned. “However, the extent of instructing that we’re doing now, it’s a heck of much more than it was originally of the yr. But that stuff is enjoyable since you’re getting (some) guys right here which are simply attending to the large leagues and also you’ve actually bought to dissect their outings and every part that they’re doing.
“That part of it is fun, but at the same time it’s critical to the direction that we’re going. You never stop teaching, you’ve always got to continue to work on getting better, but obviously when you get guys here — and we’ll continue to get younger, too, in the coming weeks — (teaching is) a big part of these next two months.”
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