John Danks Rumors & News

Entering tonight's start against Buffalo, John Danks had his sights set on the Chicago rotation. But after an uneven 4 2/3 innings in Western New York with the Charlotte Knights, it will be interesting to see whether the front office places more value on Jekyll or Hyde. Danks bookended his night with lapses in control. He struck out Mike McCoy to start the game, then plunked Anthony Gose (lefty) and Moises Sierra with a pair of cutters. Danks came back by getting a weak chopper to first. Lars Anderson thought about throwing to second, but after a pump, he turned and tossed to first. Da...

John Danks might be ready for the White Sox rotation after all, if the fifth inning of today's game against Pawtucket was any indication. The Knights had just taken a 3-2 lead the inning before, and Danks put it at risk by allowing a one-out double to Justin Henry. Henry turned it into a triple by getting a huge jump on Danks for an easy steal, but Danks stood a chance at stranding him at third when Jose Iglesias to hit a fly to shallow right. And that's when Brandon Short dropped the ball. Henry came around to score an unearned run, tying the game at 3. Classic White Sox misfortune as...

John Danks returned to Chicago in a pretty antsy condition. He's been spending the season in Arizona pitching in extended spring training, and he's tired of it: "I'm ready to go throw somewhere, and I'll tell them that tomorrow," an upbeat Danks said prior to Sunday's contest with the Twins. "I've done everything I can do in Arizona, and I'm ready to get into a real game atmosphere." There's just one problem: In his latest outing on Saturday, Danks pitched six innings, with his fastball consistently maintaining velocity levels of 88 mph. For somebody like Danks -- somebody who liv...

At this point in the longest spring ever, the top priority is getting all White Sox players out of Arizona alive. With John Danks very likely to start the season on the DL, Alex Rios and Jesse Crain remain as the lone health questions. Rios has missed three straight games with stiffness in his lower back. You could apply that same line to Brent Morel last year, so it's easy to monger fear knowing nothing else about it -- especially since he went to a hospital to have it checked out on Monday. Rios and Robin Ventura are the two principal figures in deciding whether he plays, and thei...

John Danks will more than likely start the season on the DL. When he returns, chances are he will not be the same pitcher he was. I'm going to play the role of Resident Conservative and say that he should not start until June at the earliest, and if the White Sox are not in contention, the team should really think about shutting him down for the entire year. Danks is currently in the second year of the five-year contract extension he signed in December of 2011. He is a five-year investment. I would feel safer about punting on one of those years if that increased the odds of him prod...

Given a little time to let the smoke clear, Robin Ventura and John Danks reached the same conclusion from the wreck that was his last start -- barring a Easter miracle, he's going to start the season on the disabled list. Ventura hasn't named an official replacement, but Dylan Axelrod has the inside track on Danks' early starts, with Hector Santiago stretched out enough for an outside chance. If the Danks replacement needs to handle April, I don't know if there's much of a difference between the two over a handful of starts, even if they're extremely different pitchers. Let's assume th...

John Danks is having a rough spring so far by all accounts. He came into Tuesday's start with an 11.74 ERA, reports have his velocity down, and he didn't assuage concerns about either after another ugly outing. It's bad enough that Danks is finally beginning to concede that he could be somewhere besides Chicago on Opening Day. No one wonders where this is coming from. Danks clearly wasn't himself last year in the few starts he did make, and rehab following a diagnosis of a subscapularis tear didn't make things better. When he finally did go under the knife, we found out that Danks' ...

Tracking John Danks' recovery from surgery that repaired a torn capsule in his shoulder. John Danks has been adamant that he will break camp as a member of the 25-man roster. As the lackluster results mount, some doubt is starting to enter the picture. The Los Angeles Angels inflicted plenty of damage on Danks over 3⅓ innings, as he allowed six runs on seven hits and a walk while striking out two. He wasn't quite as bad as his line indicated -- Dayan Viciedo struggled with the high sky, turning a deep flyout into a ground-rule double, his last hit was an infield single, and Ramon Tronc...