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White Sox Announce Initial Player Pool

By Steve Adams | June 29, 2020 at 10:21am CDT

The White Sox on Monday announced their initial player pool for the 2020 season. Player pools can contain up to 60 players, and only players in a team’s pool will be eligible to participate in summer training camp or regular/postseason games. Teams are free to change the makeup of the pools as they see fit, but once a team’s pool reaches 60 players, a player must be removed (released, traded, waived, etc.) in order to make a new addition. That player becomes ineligible to return to that same team in 2020.

Not all players within a team’s pool are ticketed for MLB playing time, of course. Most teams will include well-regarded but still far-off prospects as a means of getting them training reps with no intention of running them onto a major league diamond this season. A comprehensive review of 2020’s unique set of rules can be found here.

Here are the 44 players in the White Sox initial pool (* indicates player not on 40-man roster)…

Right-Handed Pitchers

  • Drew Anderson*
  • Dylan Cease
  • Steve Cishek
  • Alex Colome
  • Jimmy Cordero
  • Dane Dunning
  • Carson Fulmer
  • Tayron Guerrero*
  • Lucas Giolito
  • Ian Hamilton
  • Kelvin Herrera
  • Codi Heuer*
  • Tyler Johnson*
  • Michael Kopech
  • Jimmy Lambert
  • Reynaldo Lopez
  • Evan Marshall
  • Jose Ruiz

Left-Handed Pitchers

  • Aaron Bummer
  • Ross Detwiler*
  • Jace Fry
  • Gio Gonzalez
  • Dallas Keuchel
  • Carlos Rodon

Catchers

  • Zack Collins
  • Yasmani Grandal
  • James McCann
  • Yermin Mercedes

Infielders

  • Jose Abreu
  • Tim Anderson
  • Cheslor Cuthbert*
  • Edwin Encarnacion
  • Leury Garcia
  • Nick Madrigal*
  • Danny Mendick
  • Yoan Moncada
  • Andrew Romine*
  • Andrew Vaughn*

Outfielders

  • Luis Alexander Basabe
  • Nicky Delmonico*
  • Adam Engel
  • Eloy Jimenez
  • Nomar Mazara
  • Luis Robert
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36 Comments

  1. Yankeepride88

    5 years ago

    Will the White Sox be good? Maybe. Will they be entertaining? I absolutely think so.

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    • Strike Four

      5 years ago

      They are going to hit really well, Robert might be another Griffey Jr. or Trout, but I’m not at all impressed with that pitching staff. 83 wins tops here.

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      • niclopez

        5 years ago

        83 wins in 60 games should get them into the playoffs.

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        • sox-papertrail

          5 years ago

          Yeah. 83 wins in 60 games is probably good for at least one of the wild card spots.

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      • Priggs89

        5 years ago

        So you don’t think any of their extremely talented, highly thought of young pitchers will develop and get any better? Got it.

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        • Idioms for Idiots

          5 years ago

          @Priggs89

          Now, now. You know as well as I do that if a pitcher struggles at the beginning of his career, his career is basically over. Just ask Giolito.

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  2. DarkSide830

    5 years ago

    Dunning and Lambert but no Seby. rough break for the poor man.

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    • Priggs89

      5 years ago

      Seby sucks at catching and has never hit above AA. He’s a career minor leaguer.

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      • Big Hurt

        5 years ago

        Agreed – I love the 4 catchers on the roster now. If you can’t catch (Collins, Mercedes), at least you need to able to hit (which they can and will in my opinion).

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  3. blacksox

    5 years ago

    Seby loses out due to numbers

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    • Aaron Sapoznik

      5 years ago

      It’s surprising that Seby Zavala isn’t among the initial players on the roster pool considering that of the 44 players to date 24 are pitchers. It’s stranger yet that Zavala is currently a member of the White Sox 40-man roster and one would think that the team would want an extra catcher on hand July 1st to help with all the pitchers who will be reporting to their MLB camp in two days. Hopefully there is no underlying health issue for his omission from this initial pool.

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      • mike127

        5 years ago

        @ Aaron—good point about extra catcher(s) to help with the pitchers…..I do guess other than the one on the field there are only four mounds at GR. Having only four catchers puts a lot of strain on them with the number of pitchers that need work–especially when there are no exhibition games.

        It’s probably more procedural than anything at this point.

        Actually, being basically three weeks from the season when they get together later in the week most teams are at this 40-50 camp size by now.

        With no games, no split squads, obviously “today” they feel four is a good number, but I agree with you—at least one more would make some sense.

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  4. pobbybortis

    5 years ago

    Basabe is an interesting addition. Engel and Leury miss time, he could end up on the roster.

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    • cysoxsale

      5 years ago

      yuck.

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      • Priggs89

        5 years ago

        Yeah, what a crappy ~6th option.

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      • Idioms for Idiots

        5 years ago

        @cysoxsale

        And there are so many better options for the Sox to go with as their 6th OF, right?

        Maybe you could list those options for the rest of us, cysoxsale.

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  5. knuck2

    5 years ago

    There are 16 more spots. Those players will probably train elsewhere. Seby could be in that group.

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    • sportingdissent

      5 years ago

      I was under the impression that yesterday was the deadline to submit the league your 60 man roster. Not all teams are holding a separate camp, and those that are still announced all players (not just those in MLB camp).

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      • Priggs89

        5 years ago

        “Initial Player Pool” and, “Teams are free to change the makeup of the pools as they see fit, but once a team’s pool reaches 60 players, a player must be removed (released, traded, waived, etc.) in order to make a new addition” make me believe that is incorrect. However, I do not know for sure.

        If so, I’d like to see Crochet as one of the remaining 16 to get reps at the very least.

        Edit: Their beat-writer posted on Twitter, “No announcement yet of the remaining players in the players pool or the alternate workout site as of yet.”

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      • joeyvottoforpresident

        5 years ago

        It wasn’t really much of a deadline just like get the initial names and stuff but things can be still changed I believe. A lot of teams didn’t fill out all 60 spots for flexibility later.

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  6. ChiSoxCity

    5 years ago

    It’s gonna be fun watching this team develop the next 2-3 years—pitching is gonna be sick!

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    • Banesays

      5 years ago

      Funny how on both of your accounts yesterday you were bashing the Cubs for having 50 players out of 60. Dumpster divin’ Rick?

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      • Android Dawesome

        5 years ago

        *close up of ChiSoxCity while the curb your enthusiasm music plays*

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      • Idioms for Idiots

        5 years ago

        @Banesays

        Every team is going to be dumpster diving to fill the 60-man roster. Even the mighty Yankees went dumpster diving yesterday for the great Matt Duffy. I forgot Duffy was still playing baseball until yesterday.

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      • chitown311

        5 years ago

        Banesays, um I’m often imitated, but never duplicated! JSYK he is right you know. Pitching is gonna be sick starting with my guy Dylan Cease

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  7. sox2020

    5 years ago

    Where’s burdi on the list?

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    • Idioms for Idiots

      5 years ago

      @sox2020

      Yeah, I was a bit surprised by that one also. Unless he’s not fully recovered from his injury.

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      • cysoxsale

        5 years ago

        Kubat is definitely snubbed more so than burdi

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        • Idioms for Idiots

          5 years ago

          @cysoxsale

          LOL, Kubat’s another Donn Roach–a career minor leaguer.

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        • cysoxsale

          5 years ago

          Good numbers, something some of the pitchets on the list above cant say

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        • Idioms for Idiots

          5 years ago

          @cysoxsale

          Good numbers? ROTFL

          If you ignore his AAA numbers, I suppose. Sorry, I can’t ignore his AAA numbers. To wit:

          12 Games
          5.63 ERA
          1.38 WHIP
          9.6 H/9
          2.7 BB/9
          1.4 HR/9
          5.6 K/9
          2.06 K/BB

          Boy, those are impressive numbers. He went 5-3, maybe those were the stats you were looking at.

          The guy is 27 years old. The fact he hasn’t sniffed the MLB yet tells me all I need to know–another Donn Roach. Actually I can’t say that, at least Donn Roach had one decent season in AAA, along with a horrible tasting cup of coffee in Seattle.

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  8. MikeS2

    5 years ago

    I would gladly pay for a bus ticket so that Nicky Delmonico never got anywhere near 35th and Shields for the rest of his career.

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  9. chopper2hopper

    5 years ago

    Would be nice to see crochet added to this list. And maybe burdi, if they can find him underneath the layers of dust

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  10. Idioms for Idiots

    5 years ago

    There’s still 16 spots to fill, but I’m surprised Micker Adolfo isn’t on this list, unless he’s still injured. There’s a few on the 40-man who aren’t on here besides Adolfo, such as Burdi, Zavala, Matt Foster, Rutherford and Flores (I think I got them all). Did I miss a bunch of transactions and these guys are no longer on the 40-man roster?

    I’m curious, if you’re on the current 40-man roster, do you have to be on the 60-man roster? I would think you would have to be, barring injury.

    ***Never mind, I just read the unique 2020 rules since initially posting this, you don’t have to be on the 40-man roster to be on the 60-man roster. Strange rule–then again, everything about this season has been strange, to put it mildly.

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  11. snoopy369

    5 years ago

    Pretty sure that Tyler Johnson is a different one than the one linked – the one linked pitched in the majors last for the Cardinals in 2007 and last signed with someone in 2012.

    milb.com/player/index.jsp?player_id=656592#/career…

    That’s the right one – young kid drafted in 2017 out of South Carolina.

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  12. ChiSox_Fan

    5 years ago

    Two Sox players test positive for the “Rona”.

    I hope that’s the end of it for the Southsiders!

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