The White Sox arrived at an arrangement with veteran shortstop Paul DeJong on Tuesday night, a source told MLB.com's Imprint Feinsand.
The club has not affirmed the arrangement, which is forthcoming the consequence of a physical.
Since assuming control over, senior supervisor Chris Getz has communicated that working on Chicago's protection across the jewel - - however particularly up the center - - has been one of his primary objectives. The White Sox at present have Top pick Luis Robert Jr. in focus field; Korey Lee behind the plate; and DeJong and Nicky Lopez at shortstop and second, separately.
"Indeed, you realize it's piece by piece, it truly is," Getz said at the Senior supervisors Gatherings toward the beginning of November. "In setting out to truly work on our guarded play, it will permit our pitchers to go after the zone and be more productive. We want to turn out to be more athletic, and that addresses the superior protection we trust - - and clearly running the bases, taking additional bases, things like that.
"We're searching for players that comprehend the stuff to be on a triumphant ballclub. That beginnings with their methodology on an everyday premise, being perfectly positioned brilliantly on the field and the sky is the limit from there or less being baseball players going out there and cooperating, contending."
DeJong, 30, invested energy with three groups last season. He started the year with the Cardinals - - the main group he had played for since appearing in 2017 - - prior to being exchanged to the Blue Jays at the Exchange Cutoff time. Toronto delivered DeJong three weeks after the fact, and keeping in mind that he endorsed with the Goliaths on Aug. 23, he was delivered under a month after the fact.
An Elite player for the Cardinals in 2019, DeJong cut just .207/.258/.355 (.612 Operations) last season. Over the beyond three seasons, he has a .192/.265/.353 (.618 Operations) line in 302 games.
DeJong, who is from Antioch, Sick., and played at Illinois State College, has played only at shortstop in the major associations, particularly of late. The main other guarded position where DeJong has shown up is a respectable halfway point, yet 20 of his 22 appearances at second came in his tenderfoot season in 2017.
Lopez, procured as a component of the five-player return for Aaron Bummer in the White Sox exchange with the Overcomes on Nov. 17, can play shortstop and third base too.
"One thing I really do hang my cap on is being flexible and playing Gold Glove-type safeguard, whether it's at short, second or third," Lopez said during a Zoom approach Tuesday. "Played a tad bit of the outfield too. To have the option to realize I can go fill a spot any place they need me is something I take a great deal of pride in.
"I truly do believe that having the option to go from short and skip around to second and go to third is entirely significant in the group, particularly a triumphant group. Thus, we should see where it goes however I'm extremely invigorated."
The transition to add DeJong comes only half a month after the White Sox declined a $14 million club choice on long-term shortstop Tim Anderson, utilizing a $1 million buyout to make him a free specialist. As to Anderson could return, Getz talked at the GM Gatherings of how the entryway isn't shut.
Obviously, the inevitable response at shortstop figures to be Colson Montgomery, Chicago's No. 1 possibility and the No. 17 by and large possibility in baseball, per MLB Pipeline. However he's only 21 years of age - - he'll be 22 by First day of the season - - the objective for the 6-foot-3 remaining gave hitter is to break camp with the group.
Getz would rather not put any erratic limitations on the improvement of Montgomery, who established areas of strength for a with his play for Glendale during the 2023 Arizona Fall Association. Regardless of whether he leave Spring Preparing with the White Sox, Montgomery's leap from Triple-A Charlotte to the White Sox could show up before the expected time '24.
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