The White Sox introduced that infielder Gage Workman has been acquired from the Cubs in a commerce for money concerns. To create roster area for Workman, the Sox designated infielder Nick Maton for task.
Workman was designated for task earlier this week, and he’ll now head from Wrigleyville to the South Facet in a comparatively uncommon commerce between the 2 Chicago rivals. Workman hit .214/.267/.286 over 15 plate appearances with the Cubs, and his 9 video games marked Workman’s debut on the Main League degree. A Rule 5 draft acquisition out of the Tigers system final December, the Cubs needed to preserve Workman on their energetic roster for your complete season to completely assume his rights, however the membership selected to desert the experiment a couple of weeks into April.
The commerce has no bearing on Workman’s Rule 5 standing, so the White Sox can even have to hold him on the 26-man for the remainder of the season or else supply him again to Detroit. That is nothing new for the Sox, who now have three Rule 5 picks on their roster between Workman, Shane Smith, and Mike Vasil. Because the Pale Hose are in clear rebuild mode, there’s nothing to be misplaced for the White Sox in seeing what these prospects can do on the large league degree, and each Smith and Vasil have to date acquitted themselves fairly properly of their rookie seasons.
Workman has performed principally shortstop and third base within the minors, with some work at second base and proper area so as to add to his versatility. Chicago figures to make the most of him all around the diamond in a backup function, and Workman is likely to be one thing of a short lived alternative for infielder Chase Meidroth, who’s on the IL because of thumb irritation.
With the rebuild in thoughts, the Sox most popular Workman over extra of a longtime participant in Maton, who has appeared in 207 video games over the past 5 large league seasons. That whole contains 23 video games with Chicago this 12 months, as Maton’s minor league contract was chosen to the Opening Day roster and he hit .173/.295/.327 in 61 plate appearances. That slash line roughly matches Maton’s profession slash line, as some promising numbers in part-time work with the Phillies in 2021-22 didn’t translate when Maton acquired extra enjoying time in an finally fruitless stint with the Tigers in 2023. After enjoying in 93 video games with Detroit in 2023, Maton received into simply 5 MLB video games with the Orioles final 12 months.
Maton is out of minor league choices, so Chicago needed to designate him and expose him to waivers earlier than making an attempt to ship him to Triple-A. If Maton clears waivers and is outrighted, he can select to reject the outright task in favor of free company, since Maton has beforehand been outrighted throughout his profession.
