Cease (1-0) picked up the win after tossing five innings, surrendering one run on two hits and three walks while striking out eight in Saturday's 5-2 victory over the Tigers.
Cease was extremely effective in his season debut, limiting the Tigers to just five baserunners while whiffing eight batters. The 26-year-old was pulled after he allowed a single to Austin Meadows to open the sixth inning and Meadows later scored on a Jeimer Candelario double off Reynaldo Lopez, proving to be the only blemish on Cease's performance. After producing a respectable 3.91 ERA and 1.25 WHIP with an electric 12.3 K/9 over 32 starts with the White Sox in 2021, he'll look to take another step up here in 2022.