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With Cease pitching for the Padres, the White Sox dropped 22 of their first 25 games this season.
“Baseball's one of those games where anything can happen, and funky things can happen,” Cease said. “For all we know, they'll go on a nice little win streak and kind of even that out. But yeah, it's a little bit surprising.”
Cease has made a smooth transition to his new surroundings. He is 4-2 with a 2.55 ERA in seven starts this season. He also has 48 strikeouts in 42 1/3 innings, looking more like the pitcher he was two years ago.
Cease said his good numbers so far are the result of adjustments he started making last year.
“Basically just figuring out how to stay closed,” he said. “I feel like, for me anyways, the most difficult thing for pitching is staying closed because it is such a rotational movement."
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“I still think that in the minds of a lot of people we had a really good chance to compete,” Cease said. “I think we feel like we had a good chance to compete and we just didn’t put it together. We had a really bad year and it obviously kind of led to the need to kind of redo everything.”