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White Sox Sign Zach Putnam

By Jeff Todd | March 3, 2020 at 11:26am CDT

The White Sox have inked righty Zach Putnam to a minor-league pact, the club informed reporters including Daryl Van Schouwen of the Chicago Sun-Times (via Twitter). He’ll head to the minors side of camp.

It has been a while since we’ve heard from Putnam. The 32-year-old was sidelined in 2018 while recovering from Tommy John surgery. His attempted return last year was thwarted by a hamstring injury.

Putnam was quite an effective relief pitcher for the South Siders before the injuries intervened. Over 139 1/3 frames with the organization, accumulated between 2014 and 2017, he worked to a 2.71 ERA while carrying 9.6 K/9 against 3.6 BB/9 along with a 47.6% groundball rate.

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  1. clrrogers

    11 months ago

    Good signing. Nothing to lose.

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  2. Rallyshirt

    11 months ago

    Zach Puignam?

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  3. hyraxwithaflamethrower

    11 months ago

    Low-risk, decent reward signing. I want them to sign McHugh, though. Could really boost their BP and even serve as a spot starter if needed.

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    • jhomeslice

      11 months ago

      Agree McHugh would be good on an incentive based deal. Under the impression that his medical reports must not look that good or he would have been signed already. But all else equal, grab another guy and put him in the pool of injury recovery candidates who might help at some point mid season.

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      • axisofhonor25

        11 months ago

        Agreed. McHugh also has starting experience which would add to the depth in case the back end of the rotation falters. Nice insurance plan to Gio Gonzalez now that he’s up there on age.

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        • axisofhonor25

          11 months ago

          But also it was Colin McHugh who went off on the White Sox for their handling of the Eloy Jimenez situation, so I’m willing to bet ownership passed on him because of it.

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  4. Rangers29

    11 months ago

    I remember a few years ago when somebody would get on base against him, i’d say Zach is putnam on base again…. IK it’s dumb.

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  5. Bryan majeski

    11 months ago

    Not again. Can’t stay healthy

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    • mattcoz

      11 months ago

      Maybe not, but not much to lose by taking a chance that he stays healthy. If he does, he could really help the club.

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  6. D0m

    11 months ago

    Welcome back

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  7. gray

    11 months ago

    This would have been bigger news if it was Seth Putnam.

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  8. king joffrey

    11 months ago

    Sox should re-sign sinkerballing Bob Locker and call it an offseason.

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    • ChiSox_Fan

      11 months ago

      No, bring back Buehrle for this WS Championship season!!

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    • Mendoza Line 215

      11 months ago

      King-He is 81 years old which is a tad too long to be out of the game.
      I remember him too though so we may be a tad too old to be in the game.

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    • Franklin

      11 months ago

      Maybe Hoyt Welhelm too

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  9. Chisox378

    11 months ago

    Yattah way Boyz, nice signing!

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  10. 83sox94win05

    11 months ago

    Been a while since I’ve seen that name. Forgot all about him.

    Most likely all he’s going to be is just an arm to bring up from AAA when one of their relievers gets injured. If he amounts to anything more than that, all the better.

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  11. em650r

    11 months ago

    He’s a life long Whitesox

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  12. Paulie0514

    11 months ago

    Good ol Zach! Could have sworn he was like 35 at this point.

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  13. jhomeslice

    11 months ago

    Costs a lot less than Gerrit Cole, but probably has less upside.

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  14. brucenewton

    11 months ago

    Call me crazy but the White Sox pitching staff doesn’t look very good.

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    • drcrawdad

      11 months ago

      Crazy

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  15. forklift1

    11 months ago

    not sure

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  16. Moneyballer

    11 months ago

    One of the better last names in baseball. Put in putnam! Where’s putnam? PUTNAM!!! Oh there you are putnam, get in there putnam. Pause for 3 minutes. Putnam.

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    • axisofhonor25

      11 months ago

      If you don’t know what to you put for your name: Putnam

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  17. brucenewton

    11 months ago

    They need even more pitching depth.

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