The White Sox announced that reliever Aaron Bummer and third baseman Yoán Moncada have been reinstated from the injured list prior to this afternoon’s game against the Mariners. Outfielders Adam Haseley and Mark Payton were optioned to Triple-A Charlotte to create active roster space. Bummer had been on the 60-day injured list, so the Sox needed to clear a 40-man roster spot for him. That’s been achieved by sending righty Tobias Myers — whom the club hadn’t previously announced was designated for assignment — outright to Charlotte after he went unclaimed on waivers.
Bummer is in position to make his first MLB appearance in three months. The left-hander last pitched on June 7, then landed on the IL with a left lat strain a couple days later. Bummer’s absence led the Chicago front office to target southpaw bullpen help in advance of the trade deadline, and they eventually sent catcher Reese McGuire to Boston for Jake Diekman. Bummer will reassume his role as the primary lefty for acting manager Miguel Cairo, as he’d been off to another strong start. Through 17 2/3 innings, he posted a 3.06 ERA with a solid 26.3% strikeout rate and an elite 58.3% ground-ball percentage.
Moncada missed the minimum amount of time after suffering a left hamstring strain during the final few days of August. It was the third IL stint of the year for the switch-hitting infielder, who also landed on the shelf with an oblique injury and a strain of his other hamstring earlier in the year. Those injures have seemingly prevented Moncada from getting into any sort of groove, as he’s slumped to a career-worst .197/.269/.313 line over 324 plate appearances this season.
The Sox added Myers on deadline day, claiming him off waivers from the Giants. The 24-year-old has started five games with Charlotte since then, allowing a staggering 16 runs (15 earned) with 11 walks and eight strikeouts. It’s the continuation of a nightmarish season for Myers, who has worked exclusively at Triple-A between the Guardians, Giants and White Sox organizations. He owns a 7.35 ERA in 71 frames between the three clubs’ top affiliates.
Those struggles have come largely out of nowhere, as Myers posted a slid 3.90 ERA with a huge 30.5% strikeout rate in 117 2/3 innings between Double-A and Triple-A in 2021. That led Cleveland to acquire him from the Rays last November and immediately add him to the 40-man roster to keep him from being selected in the Rule 5 draft, but things have since unexpectedly gone backwards. Myers, who has yet to make his MLB debut, will now have to try to work his way back onto a 40-man roster. He’ll be eligible for minor league free agency at the end of this year if Chicago doesn’t first reselect him onto the 40-man.
White Sox are about to make a run! Is there a team in baseball doing a better job at developing pitching right now than the White Sox??? Carlos Rodon, Dylan Cease, Lucas Giolito, Michael Kopech …….
I’m not sure if this is a joke..
Has to be.
It’s not. Barry’s a homer.
Having Aaron on the IL was a real BUMMER!!
I don’t get it
That’s cause you diving the wrong dumpster theo
“Bummer had been off to another strong start” not even close to true. His teammates in the pen kept putting out his fires as evidenced by the 1.6 WHIP and misleadingly low ERA. He got extended off 1 good year in ’19. Hurt and bad since. He’s a sabermetric darling with the GB%, but the command is brutal. Moncada should also be on the bench. His loafing absence (on offense) and interim manager Miguel Cairo have ignited this WSox club with positive energy. Keep Harrison/Andrus in lineup…..baseball isn’t played on a spreadsheet!
What a bummer
Tobias Myers is proof of the old addage: never trade pitchers with the Rays.
Bummer is terrible. Should be DFA’d.
These next two weeks are going to be very interesting in the American League Central. This three way race between the Guardians, Twins and White Sox is exciting for the game. The White Sox were expected to run away with the American League Central this season but injuries have prevented that meanwhile they kept it tight. Odds are if the White Sox remain healthy in these final weeks they will win that division and Cease will win the American League Cy Young.
No, and no.
I love how people cling to the ‘injuries’ excuse for the Sox poor play.. It was not unmotivated players in an apparent unmotivated environment, bad errors, little league base running blunders (by guys who were not injured but expected to help the Sox compete), and inability (even still) to drive in runs from 2nd and 3rd base with less than two outs. The Sox under-performed all season and had a sleeping beauty manager in the dugout. While they have played better under Cairo (I doubt that’s a coincidence) for the past week, the Sox are fighting for their playoff chances now because of how lackadaisically they took the first 5/6 of the season. If not for Adrus coming in and injecting some spark into this club, and LaRussa’s health issue causing Cairo to have to be interim manager (and running Adrus out there as a leadoff hitter), I think the Sox would be a long way from first, and not hanging on by a thread hoping they can pass two teams in about 3 weeks. If the Sox play like they were expected to they should make the playoffs but now they finally decide to play only to be in third place and having to claw their way back, this is why you want to get into first in April or May and stay there and make other teams have to gas themselves catching you. Because of this having to come up from 3rd, there is this feeling of waiting for the other shoe to drop with this team They do well for a week, then take a week off, when now they MUST play well and win every game if possible to catch up to the two clubs in front of them. It does not help that the four guys that got contract extensions all have been spending for too long on the bench instead of earning their keep on the field.
Also, WHY is Moncada batting 2nd? I would bat him ’10th’ if one could. Heck with the way this team is playing now Id almost keep Anderson on the bench when he does come back and leave Andrus at SS. I also wish Jimenez would really learn from these multihit games and be the consistent hitter that everyone expects him to be.
Looking at the Paul Konerko for Mike Cameron comparison