Cowley: It Might Just Take Dunn 'One At-Bat' To Break Out
CHICAGO (WSCR) The Chicago White Sox had a big offseason, largely due to the signing of free agent slugger Adam Dunn. The idea of Dunn in a lineup with Paul Konerko and Alexei Ramirez got fans excited, but the lineup fans expected hasn't fully materialized.
And now those same fans are wondering where Dunn goes from here.
"It goes forward and hopefully it goes up, that's all you can do," Joe Cowley, of the Chicago Sun-Times, said on the Danny Mac Show. "This was the big philosophical argument between Kenny [Williams] and Ozzie [Guillen], is that left-handed power guy. Obviously [Mark] Kotsay didn't get it done and everyone was screaming for a power hitting guy from the left side, and Kenny went out and got his guy. Well, his guy is failing."
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Dunn hasn't been able to recover from a rough start to the season, he has a .186 batting average, five home runs, 22 runs batted in and a .314 on-base percentage.
The White Sox, as a team, got off to a rough start as well. While they may not have fully recovered, they've stabilized. The White Sox have won seven of their last ten, but if they want to close the gap on the Cleveland Indians, they're going to need Dunn to produce.
"You might make it close," Cowley said. "And you might make it interesting, because of pitching, but you need to score in the American League, and that's not happening. But you gotta keep Dunn in there. You gotta keep marching him out there because one game, one game, one at-bat, one time of feeling good about himself could be the springboard."
