The White Sox have agreed to a minor league contract with veteran infielder Ruben Tejada, tweets MLB Network’s Jon Heyman. Tejada, a client of Primetime Sports Group, will join the White Sox’ Triple-A club this weekend.
Now 31 years old, Tejada is best known for his time with the Mets, with whom he spent the 2010-15 and 2019 seasons. In parts of seven years in Queens, Tejada slashed .254/.328/.322 while logging considerable time at each of shortstop, second base and third base. He’s also had brief stints with the Cardinals, Giants and Orioles, though he hasn’t been particularly productive at any of those three stops.
Tejada has spent the season thus far with the Phillies’ Triple-A affiliate after agreeing to a minor league deal back in May. He appeared in 72 games with the IronPigs and slashed .231/.341/.262 over the life of 264 plate appearances. He was released late last month.
Chicago’s infield depth was depleted a bit when both Romy Gonzalez and Danny Mendick were called up to the big league roster in recent days, so Tejada will give them another veteran option in Charlotte, where he’ll join a roster that also includes Matt Reynolds, Marco Hernandez, Mikie Mahtook, Nik Turley and the recently signed Carl Edwards Jr.
Good depth pickup… Won’t sniff the majors this year, unless several more injuries happen
I actually like his new batting stance. He used to have his bat on his shoulder while he was swinging. For some reason the hitting coach never fixed it till Ruben left the Mets organization. Good singles hitter with above average defense. Id say hes about on par with Jose Peraza at this point in their careers
Peraza is a lick above Tejada in power per career numbers, but your comparison is a good one regardless.
That said, you’ve made me curious as to how Ruben looks using this new stance. Maybe I’ll look it up later today.
Peraza has 25 more Home Runs in 242 fewer plate appearances and has 62 more career Stolen Bases. Peraza has struck out significantly less but has taken far fewer walks which is the only offensive advantage Tejada has over Peraza. They are not all that comparable
He has hit markedly worse ever since leaving the Mets, so perhaps his stance was not ‘fixed’ so much as ruined.
That said, wish him all the best and I hope he manages to work his way back into the bigs.
He got injured on Utley’s slide in the nlcs, hasnt been the same since
In fairness, his career numbers weren’t exactly great before the injury.
So a Nick Madrigal replacement. Good with that
He has been with so many teams and will be remembered as a Met. History talks
i mean, yeah, but why are you feeling the need to make a point of it?
It’s not like his performance for the Mets was anything to write home about.
It wasn’t even anything to tell home about. Or tell anyone about for that matter.
He’s just filling out a AAA roster for the rest of the season. No need to read anything more into it than that.
Only way he gets to majors is if Garcia and Mendick both get hurt.
Hard to believe he is still only 31 years old. Seems like he’s been playing forever
Hummmm. I hope Tim Anderson isn’t hurt more than they are leading on.
Chase Utley’s head. That’s all.
Will CWS ever be operated by affluent sportsmen rather than these cabals interested only in the circu$ of sports ?.
They may have to be to
take them to the next level.