Pitching
His slider is sharp and breaks both horizontally and vertically. Kimball has to keep the ball down, especially against lefties, or he gets hit hard and often. His fastball gets into the high 80s, but it's the sink that makes the pitch effective. The Chicago White Sox hope he can work on his control a little bit. Every once and a while one slips away from him and either ends up at the backstop or in the right field bleachers. He tends to work slowly when in a jam, which just makes his problems worse by lulling his fielders to sleep. He comes right after righthanded hitters, who are lucky even to reach base against him, but he works more carefully to lefties.

Defense & Hitting
Kimball does an average job of holding runners. He tends to fall off slightly to the first-base side of the mound, making him vulnerable to bunts toward third base. He makes up for that minor flaw by being aggressive in fielding his position. Kimball is a surpisingly good hitting pitcher. And I'm not sure you can say this about a pitcher, but Kimball has some pop in his swing.

2010 Outlook
If Kimball doesn't perform, the Chicago White Sox won't hesitate to send him down to the minors. I just don't know if The Chicago White Sox are ever going to get what they expect out of him.

          -- Moostard Nyman