On the heels of one of many worst seasons in baseball historical past, the White Sox should stockpile younger expertise whereas working underneath a cloud of uncertainty about the way forward for the franchise.
Assured Contracts
Andrew Benintendi, LF: $47.5MM by way of 2027
Luis Robert Jr., CF: $15MM by way of 2025, with a $20MM membership choice ($2MM buyout) for 2026 and the identical membership choice for ’27
Possibility Choices
Extra Obligations
2025 monetary commitments: $40.75MMTotal future commitments: $71.75MM
Arbitration-Eligible Gamers (service time in parentheses; wage projections by way of Matt Swartz)
Free Brokers
Whereas we knew this workforce could be unhealthy, we did not understand it will be traditionally unhealthy. The 2024 White Sox set the fashionable file for whole losses with 121, and it simply may have been worse had they not surged to win 5 of their final six video games. Beginning pitchers Garrett Crochet and Erick Fedde have been the one glimmers of hope, however the latter was traded and the previous appears on his means out.
The Sox fired supervisor Pedro Grifol on August eighth, with Grady Sizemore serving as interim supervisor for the rest of the season. Sizemore is at the least into consideration for the full-time job, however the checklist of identified candidates has additionally included Donnie Ecker, Will Venable, Clayton McCullough, Danny Lehman, George Lombard, A.J. Ellis, Phil Nevin, Daniel Descalso, and Skip Schumaker. Grifol was Rick Hahn’s rent, so the brand new supervisor would be the first chosen by senior vice chairman/GM Chris Getz.
Past the managarial change, existential points loom over the White Sox. One is whether or not longtime proprietor Jerry Reinsdorf intends to promote the workforce. On October sixteenth, Brittany Ghiroli of The Athletic reported that Reinsdorf is “open to promoting” the workforce, and moreover, “is in lively discussions with a gaggle led by former massive leaguer Dave Stewart.” Stewart’s involvement has led to hypothesis about probably shifting the workforce to Nashville, given the previous pitcher’s efforts to carry an MLB workforce to that metropolis.
The Stewart rumor follows January information of Reinsdorf’s intention of getting a brand new stadium inbuilt a (Chicago) South Loop space referred to as “The 78.” A relocation menace is among the oldest within the new-stadium playbook, in fact, and Reinsdorf efficiently leveraged a possible transfer to St. Petersburg again in 1988 to get the present Assured Fee Area inbuilt Chicago. Again in 1995, Reinsdorf famously stated in reference to his St. Petersburg play in a Cigar Aficionado interview, “A savvy negotiator creates leverage. Individuals needed to suppose we have been going to depart Chicago.”
Shifting from Chicago to St. Petersburg hardly made sense by way of market dimension, and the identical is true of Nashville now.
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