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Washington Post
6 days ago
- Business
- Washington Post
White Sox trade C Matt Thaiss to Tampa Bay and reinstate C Korey Lee from injured list
NEW YORK — The Chicago White Sox traded Matt Thaiss to Tampa Bay and reinstated fellow catcher Korey Lee from the 10-day injured list on Tuesday. Chicago received minor league outfielder Dru Baker from Tampa Bay for the 30-year-old Thaiss, who hit .212 with a homer and eight RBIs in 35 games with the White Sox. He was acquired from the crosstown Cubs in December.
Associated Press
6 days ago
- Business
- Associated Press
White Sox trade C Matt Thaiss to Tampa Bay and reinstate C Korey Lee from injured list
NEW YORK (AP) — The Chicago White Sox traded Matt Thaiss to Tampa Bay and reinstated fellow catcher Korey Lee from the 10-day injured list on Tuesday. Chicago received minor league outfielder Dru Baker from Tampa Bay for the 30-year-old Thaiss, who hit .212 with a homer and eight RBIs in 35 games with the White Sox. He was acquired from the crosstown Cubs in December. The rebuilding White Sox have a strong catching pipeline, leaving no room for Thaiss. Edgar Quero is off to an encouraging start after making his major league debut on April 17. Kyle Teel, who was acquired in the Garrett Crochet trade in December, is at Triple-A Charlotte. Lee, 26, had been sidelined by a sprained left ankle. He is batting .333 (5 for 15) in nine games with Chicago this year. Baker, 25, was a fourth-round selection in the 2021 amateur draft out of Texas Tech. He has been on the seven-day injured list since April 22 with a left adductor strain. He batted .245 with a homer and three RBIs in 17 games with Triple-A Durham this season. The addition of Thaiss gives Tampa Bay another catching option behind Danny Jansen. Ben Rortvedt has struggled this year, batting just .100 (6 for 60) in 25 games. Outfielder Jonny DeLuca was transferred to the 60-day IL to create an opening for Thaiss on the Rays' 40-man roster. DeLuca is coming back from a right shoulder strain. ___ AP MLB:
Reuters
6 days ago
- Business
- Reuters
Rays obtain veteran C Matt Thaiss from White Sox
May 27 - The Tampa Bay Rays acquired veteran catcher Matt Thaiss from the Chicago White Sox on Tuesday for minor league outfielder Dru Baker. Thiass, 30, batted .212 (18-for-85) with one homer and eight RBIs in 35 games for the White Sox this season. He had a .294 slugging percentage in his first campaign with Chicago. Thaiss spent his first six seasons with the Los Angeles Angels. He has a .209 career batting average with 23 homers and 87 RBIs in 280 games. Baker, 25, was batting .245 with one homer and three RBIs in 17 games for Triple-A Durham. He sustained an adductor injury more than a month ago and has been on the injured list since April 22. He also played in six games at the Rookie level this season and went 1-for-15. Last season, Baker stole 42 bases for Double-A Montgomery and batted .288 with no homers and 44 RBIs. Chicago activated catcher Korey Lee (ankle) from the 10-day injured list prior to Tuesday's game against the New York Mets. Lee last played on April 9 when he sprained his left ankle against the Cleveland Guardians. Lee, 26, went 5-for-15 (.333) with one RBI in nine games before his injury. Last season, Lee batted .210 with 12 homers and 37 RBIs in 125 games for Chicago. The Rays transferred outfielder Jonny DeLuca (right shoulder strain) to the 60-day injured list to make room for Thaiss on the 40-man roster. --Field Level Media
Yahoo
29-03-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
The White Sox WAH factor
The WAH when you first learn you've been born into a White Sox family. | Some baseball teams rate a WOW factor. The White Sox instead rate a WAH factor. WAH, a statistic reserved for teams with at least 121 losses, goes along with Baseball-Reference's or FanGraph's Wins Above Replacement, or WAR, or B-R's less-often-used Wins Above Average, or WAA. While WAR is generally considered to have a zero base of 47 or so wins and WAA is based off 81 wins, WAH has a comfortably lower base of 41 wins, given last year's record. Advertisement It is, therefore, Wins Above Horrible. As the regular season approaches next week, it's time to try to figure out whether the 2025 White Sox are apt to be better than the 2024 team, and, if so, by how much. Rather than just take an overall guess, though, let's examine the WAH values by position. POSITION PLAYERS Catcher With the two stars of the future (we hope) sent to the minor leagues already, this will be a repeat of Korey Lee, with Matt Thaiss taking the place of Martín Maldonado. Thaiss isn't much, but Maldonado was horrible. WAH +2 First base Andrew Vaughn is same-same Andrew Vaughn, as he has proven for four years. WAH 0 Second base There's a lot of messing around with the rest of the infield possibilities, but let's allow the highest ceiling here, which would be Brandon Drury, a once-excellent hitter who has had a solid spring. He's a much worse fielder than Nicky Lopez, but usually much better at the plate. WAH +2 Third base Likely some of the same players as last year, with Josh Rojas tossed into the mix. Miguel Vargas and Lenyn Sosa have hit well this spring, which probably means nothing, but let's be optimistic and say they've both improved, at least on offense, and give them a WAH of +2 over themselves. Advertisement Shortstop There apparently will be one, Whoever it is will be awful. WAH -3 Left field Bound to be Andrew Benintendi, just to get something for all that money. WAH 0 Center field Luis Robert Jr. is apt to be better than last year, even if he does go into the doldrums on occasion again. Would be a bigger WAH jump but he's likely to be gone no later than the trade deadline, so just WAH +2. Right field This has been a black hole, but maybe this time it could just be a dark gray one. Let's say mostly Mike Tauchman, maybe some Nick Maton or Michael Taylor or Travis Jankowski. Whichever, they might get the WAH as high as +2. Advertisement Designated hitter Similar blah to last year. WAH 0 For those keeping track at home, that's a hitting net WAH of +7. PITCHERS Starting pitching was the one area where B-R had the Sox above average in 2024, but Garrett Crochet, Erick Fedde and even Chris Flexen and his long losing streak are gone, taking with them 10.3 bWAR. Jonathan Cannon was good then, but he's terrible right now, so that's a negative, too. Even if you get really, really optimistic and expect Sean Burke to be a star despite his latest shellacking, toss in a whole year of Davis Martin, and an adequate Shame Smith and/or Bryse Wilson and some veteran prowess from Martin Pérez, you'll be lucky to get more than seven wins back, so a WAH of -3. Advertisement As for the bullpen, it was lousy last year, but one evaluating outfit say this year's is the worst it's ever seen, so at best WAH 0. Totals so far, a WAH of +4, which would get us to 117 losses. OTHER STUFF Will Venable as manager instead of Pedro Grifol, WAH +5. That's a lot for a manager, but Grifol was such a disaster it may come to pass. Now we're at 112 losses, but I went wild and crazy and said in a Sharing Sox podcast the White Sox would only lose 108, so let's factor in better research, better equipment like the marvelous Trajekt machine, and call all that an intangibles WAH of +4, whether it makes sense or not. Advertisement Voilá! A mere 108 losses. If we're really, really optimistic. But remember, there's another new milkshake this year. More from
