The White Sox employed a brand new supervisor and cashed in Garrett Crochet for prospects, in any other case making reasonably priced, low-ceiling additions.
Main League Signings
Martin Perez, SP: one 12 months, $5MM. Consists of $10MM mutual possibility for 2026 with a $1.5MM buyout
Josh Rojas, 3B: one 12 months, $3.5MM
Mike Tauchman, LF/RF: one 12 months, $1.95MM
Michael A. Taylor, CF: one 12 months, $1.95MM
Austin Slater, LF/RF: one 12 months, $1.75MM
Bryse Wilson, SP/RF: one 12 months, $1.05MM
2025 spending: $15.2MMTotal spending: $15.2MM
Choice Choices
Trades and Claims
Notable Minor League Signings
Extensions
Notable Losses
Chris Getz was employed as White Sox government vice chairman/GM in August 2023, inheriting supervisor Pedro Grifol from earlier longtime GM Rick Hahn. After a few 12 months within the GM chair along with his crew sporting a traditionally unhealthy 28-89 report on the 2024 season, Getz fired Grifol and put in Grady Sizemore as interim supervisor for the rest of the marketing campaign. Managers can sometimes journey out rebuilding years, proving themselves on delicate components and retaining the job when the crew will get good. The Orioles’ Brandon Hyde did this. Grifol, nevertheless, didn’t warrant that stage of religion.
Given a clear offseason slate to decide on his personal supervisor, Getz ran an in depth search that included Will Venable, Daniel Descalso, Phil Nevin, George Lombard, A.J. Ellis, Donnie Ecker, Danny Lehmann, Clayton McCullough, Craig Albernaz, and lots of others whose names didn’t attain the media. Getz had competitors from the Marlins on a number of of those candidates. He finally selected Venable on October twenty ninth. McCullough landed the Marlins gig not lengthy after, whereas Nevin nonetheless landed with Chicago however as a particular assistant of their participant improvement division.
The Princeton-educated Venable grew to become the forty fourth supervisor in White Sox historical past, and he takes over a crew that has nowhere to go however up. Getz himself was the beneficiary of Jerry Reinsdorf’s “I didn’t need to interview these individuals, as a result of I knew all of them” hiring strategy, which additionally netted Tony La Russa as supervisor in October 2020. So it is at all times a reduction to see the White Sox conduct an in depth search as they did with Venable.
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