On the heels of one of many worst seasons in baseball historical past, the White Sox should stockpile younger expertise whereas working below a cloud of uncertainty about the way forward for the franchise.
Assured Contracts
- Andrew Benintendi, LF: $47.5MM via 2027
- Luis Robert Jr., CF: $15MM via 2025, with a $20MM membership possibility ($2MM buyout) for 2026 and the identical membership possibility for ’27
Possibility Selections
Extra Obligations
2025 monetary commitments: $40.75MM
Whole future commitments: $71.75MM
Arbitration-Eligible Gamers (service time in parentheses; wage projections by way of Matt Swartz)
Free Brokers
Whereas we knew this group could be dangerous, we did not notice it might be traditionally dangerous. The 2024 White Sox set the trendy 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 not less than into account 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 group. On October sixteenth, Brittany Ghiroli of The Athletic reported that Reinsdorf is “open to promoting” the group, and moreover, “is in energetic discussions with a gaggle led by former huge leaguer Dave Stewart.” Stewart’s involvement has led to hypothesis about probably shifting the group to Nashville, given the previous pitcher’s efforts to deliver an MLB group to that metropolis.
The Stewart rumor follows January information of Reinsdorf’s intention of getting a brand new stadium in-built a (Chicago) South Loop space known as “The 78.” A relocation risk is likely one of the oldest within the new-stadium playbook, after all, and Reinsdorf efficiently leveraged a possible transfer to St. Petersburg again in 1988 to get the present Assured Price Subject in-built 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 assume we have been going to depart Chicago.”
Transferring from Chicago to St. Petersburg hardly made sense when it comes to market dimension, and the identical is true of Nashville now.
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