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  "textContent": "<p>With Opening Day starter and 2025 All-Star Shane Smith trying to recapture his form in the minors, the top spot in the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox\" >White Sox’</a> rotation is there for the taking. As he prepares for his fourth start of the season Friday, Davis Martin is making a claim for it.</p><p>In 18 innings, Martin has a 2.50 ERA with 15 strikeouts and four walks. In his last start, Martin threw seven innings of two-run ball against the Royals, but the Sox’ bats — as they have for most of the season — offered no support in a 2-0 loss.</p><p>After pitching to a 4.10 ERA in 26 outings (25 starts) last season, his first full year in the majors, Martin is finding success keeping things simple.</p><p>“I’ve stopped thinking so much,” Martin told the Sun-Times. “I’ve gotten very close with my faith, and just giving up a lot of things that I can’t control and just focusing on the things that I can control. That’s helped me a ton.</p><p>“I’ve pitched since I was 9 years old, and a lot of times you have the answer. If you let your body just let it happen, get out of your own way. Really just dumb it down a lot. Sometimes you get too cerebral.”</p><p>Last season, Martin, the Sox' 14th-round pick in 2018, relied on veteran Martin Perez for guidance. Perez, who agreed to a minor-league deal with the Braves this week, impressed upon Martin to “dumb it down” and read what the hitter is doing.</p><p>“If a guy’s leaning over trying to get to a slider, he’s susceptible to something hard in,” Martin said. “If you give yourself the ability to see that, you can make those adjustments on the fly. And Martin did a really good job of that. He’d throw a changeup, he’d see a guy reach out and touch it and then the next pitch was a cutter up and in, and it [led to] a ground ball.</p><p>“It’s an old-school way of doing it: less scouting report, more what you’re seeing [from] a hitter and try to be one step ahead of him.”</p><p>Martin will try to stay ahead of an Athletics team that features slugging catcher Shea Langeliers, who already has six home runs with a .960 OPS. 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