The White Sox introduced that infielder Gage Workman has been acquired from the Cubs in a commerce for money issues. 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 Aspect 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 stage. A Rule 5 draft acquisition out of the Tigers system final December, the Cubs needed to maintain Workman on their lively roster for your entire season to completely assume his rights, however the membership selected to desert the experiment a number of weeks into April.
The commerce has no bearing on Workman’s Rule 5 standing, so the White Sox may also have to hold him on the 26-man for the remainder of the season or else provide 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 huge league stage, and each Smith and Vasil have to date acquitted themselves fairly nicely of their rookie seasons.
Workman has performed principally shortstop and third base within the minors, with some work at second base and proper subject so as to add to his versatility. Chicago figures to make the most of him everywhere in the diamond in a backup position, and Workman may be one thing of a brief alternative for infielder Chase Meidroth, who’s on the IL on account of thumb irritation.
With the rebuild in thoughts, the Sox most well-liked Workman over extra of a longtime participant in Maton, who has appeared in 207 video games over the past 5 huge league seasons. That whole consists of 23 video games with Chicago this yr, 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 obtained extra taking part in time in an in the end fruitless stint with the Tigers in 2023. After taking part in in 93 video games with Detroit in 2023, Maton obtained into simply 5 MLB video games with the Orioles final yr.
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.
