Drew Thorpe hopes to rejoin White Sox for playoff push after long road back to mound
<p>ARLINGTON, Texas — Drew Thorpe’s not a morning person, but he’ll make an exception if it means getting back to the <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox" target="_blank" ><u>White Sox</u></a> after two frustrating years of injury rehabilitation.</p><p>“Ten a.m. starts should be illegal, but I’ll take it,” Thorpe said, referring to his early first pitch in the desert last weekend with the Arizona Complex League Sox.</p><p>The right-hander threw two scoreless innings with three strikeouts in his biggest step yet back to the Sox since being <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2026/03/06/white-sox-right-hander-drew-thorpe-bullpen-session-dr-keith-meister-andrew-benintendi-everson-pereria-wikelman-gonzalez" target="_blank" ><u>sidelined</u></a> since July 31, 2024, with a slew of elbow issues, Tommy John surgery and an appendectomy to boot.</p><p>“It has been what feels like forever,” Thorpe said.
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<p>ARLINGTON, Texas — Drew Thorpe’s not a morning person, but he’ll make an exception if it means getting back to the <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox" target="_blank" ><u>White Sox</u></a> after two frustrating years of injury rehabilitation.</p><p>“Ten a.m. starts should be illegal, but I’ll take it,” Thorpe said, referring to his early first pitch in the desert last weekend with the Arizona Complex League Sox.</p><p>The right-hander threw two scoreless innings with three strikeouts in his biggest step yet back to the Sox since being <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2026/03/06/white-sox-right-hander-drew-thorpe-bullpen-session-dr-keith-meister-andrew-benintendi-everson-pereria-wikelman-gonzalez" target="_blank" ><u>sidelined</u></a> since July 31, 2024, with a slew of elbow issues, Tommy John surgery and an appendectomy to boot.</p><p>“It has been what feels like forever,” Thorpe said. “It was good to touch the mound again in somewhat of a game.”</p><p>Thorpe’s next step comes Friday with a three-inning outing at High-A Winston-Salem, and he hopes to ramp up from there — all the way back to the big leagues this season, he believes.</p><p>“I think so. That’s up to them,” Thorpe said, pointing to Sox leaders who acquired him in the Dylan Cease trade.
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- <p>ARLINGTON, Texas — Drew Thorpe’s not a morning person, but he’ll make an exception if it means getting back to the <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox" target="_blank" ><u>White Sox</u></a> after two frustrating years of injury rehabilitation.</p><p>“Ten a.m. starts should be illegal, but I’ll take it,” Thorpe said, referring to his early first pitch in the desert last weekend with the Arizona Complex League Sox.</p><p>The right-hander threw two scoreless innings with three strikeouts in his biggest step yet back to the Sox since being <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2026/03/06/white-sox-right-hander-drew-thorpe-bullpen-session-dr-keith-meister-andrew-benintendi-everson-pereria-wikelman-gonzalez" target="_blank" ><u>sidelined</u></a> since July 31, 2024, with a slew of elbow issues, Tommy John surgery and an appendectomy to boot.</p><p>“It has been what feels like forever,” Thorpe said.
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