The White Sox signed righty Chris Muller to a minor league deal over the weekend, according to an announcement from their Triple-A team. He’s been assigned to their top affiliate in Charlotte.
Muller, 27, has yet to make his big league debut. He received his first major league call from the Rays in May but was optioned back out without making an appearance. After he suffered an injury in Triple-A, Tampa Bay released him. The Rays brought him back on a minor league pact but released him again last week.
A former 17th round pick, Muller is strictly a bullpen option. He’s worked 20 innings across 16 appearances with the Rays’ top minor league club this season, posting a 4.95 ERA. His 24.4% strikeout rate was solid, but he walked a lofty 12.2% of batters faced. It was a similar story the year before, when Muller fanned 28.1% of opponents against a 12.7% walk percentage en route to a 4.91 ERA in 58 2/3 Triple-A frames.
Chicago traded away a number of relievers at the deadline, leading to MLB calls for the likes of Declan Cronin, Bryan Shaw, Edgar Navarro and Lane Ramsey. That thinned the Triple-A depth, making it a fairly sensible landing spot for Muller to look for his initial MLB appearance.
Some words of wisdom Chris, if you get called up to the bigs, don’t call Tim Anderson Jackie Robinson, (even though he called himself that) and if I were you stick to yourself and only those you are dearly close with because they will turn you into a locker room cancer like all the rest. But rest assured you got this, I hope you get called up, and I hope you end up making a nice career for yourself.
The White Sox badly need to change the narrative around their team; maybe they could bring back “Disco Demoliton” night. I mean what could possibly go wrong with that?
Give us more bobbleheads and 70s throwback jersey days
Where is that brain surgeon that posts under the handle of “dumpster divin Theo”???
Maybe looking in a mirror?
More fireworks! Fireworks even when the opposing team hits a homerun. It’ll be a great distraction to what is on the field.
Dude looks like Wade Miley; I had to do a double take
I love that song by Aerosmith
Love him or hate him, these problems didn’t occur with Ozzie in charge.
The White Sox have to have the oldest Triple A team. Maybe older than some MLB teams.
How embarrassing are the White Sox, I have no idea why anyone would go to a game, good news is Yoan Moncado is signed for 24 million and Tim Anderson for 14 million so we’ll see them next year
At least they alleviated some of that embarrassment by kicking Cole’s ass Monday. Great job by the Sox and Andrew Vaughn.
“Why anyone would go to a game”…I wondered the same thing and then I saw they had a packed crowd at home vs the Yankees yesterday. They actually played with some fire and beat the Yankees.
Not quite packed… 27K “announced” attendance. Capacity is 40K.
7 more walks from your “ace” against a team that has quit on the season much the the Sox.