TODAY: Shaw has rejected the outright assignment and chosen free agency, the White Sox announced.
APRIL 12: The White Sox announced a series of roster moves today, selecting the contracts of infielder/outfielder Zach Remillard and right-hander Justin Anderson. To open active roster spots, outfielder Oscar Colás was optioned to Triple-A Charlotte while right-hander Bryan Shaw was designated for assignment. To open another 40-man spot, infielder Yoán Moncada was transferred to the 60-day injured list.
It was reported earlier this week that Moncada is going to miss three to six months due to an adductor strain. Colás was recalled to take his roster spot, but it seems that was just a temporary measure as the club figured out today’s slate of moves. Moncada’s injury left them slightly short-handed in terms of infielders, so they have optioned out Colás today and added another infielder.
Remillard, now 30, got to make his major league debut last year at the age of 29 after spending the better part of a decade in the minors. He hit .252/.295/.320 in his 160 plate appearances last year while stealing four bases and bouncing around the diamond. He played the three infield spots to the left of first base, as well as the outfield corners. He was designated for assignment in January but cleared waivers, sticking with the Sox in a non-roster capacity. Now he’ll get back to the majors, replacing an injured Moncada just as he did last year.
The Sox have been rotating Paul DeJong, Nicky Lopez and Braden Shewmake through the two middle infield spots so far this year. Lenyn Sosa was in a bench role but started at third with Moncada out of action on Wednesday and could perhaps continue taking that spot. If so, that would leave Remillard serving as the primary depth infielder, though his ability to also play some outfield gives the club a bit of extra flexibility.
Shaw, 36, is a veteran with well over a decade in the big leagues. He signed a minor league deal with the Sox in the offseason and cracked the Opening Day roster but his season didn’t get off to a great start. He has tossed four innings over five appearances thus far, allowing four earned runs on eight hits, striking out four but also walking four.
The Sox have decided to bump him off the roster in favor of some fresh blood in Anderson. The 31-year-old agreed to a minor league pact in November and had a decent Spring Training. He tossed eight innings with three earned runs allowed, striking out ten though also walking five. He reported to Triple-A to begin the season and has tossed 4 2/3 scoreless innings there so far this year, with five strikeouts and no walks.
Whenever Anderson gets into a game, it will be his first major league action in years. He pitched for the Angels in 2018 and 2019, with a 4.75 ERA in 102 1/3 innings, but hasn’t been in the show since. Tommy John surgery in the summer of 2020 wiped out that year and most of 2021 as well. In the Rangers’ system in 2022, he made three Triple-A appearances before going on the minor league IL and never returning. He was in the Royals’ system in 2023 but struggled, posting an ERA of 6.87 in 36 2/3 innings.
There were some positive signs last year, however, as he struck out 35.5% of batters faced. He also got better as he went along, with a 3.44 ERA in his last 11 outings and a tiny ERA of 0.63 in the last eight. That’s a very favorable framing for Anderson, but after so much missed time due to injury, it’s possible he was just getting back on track. Since he’s continued to post decent results since joining the Sox, it seems they want to give him a look against big league hitters.
Anderson still has a full slate of options and less than three years of big league service time, so he can be a long-term depth option for the Sox if he justifies his place on the 40-man roster. As for Shaw, the club will have a week to trade him or pass him through waivers. In the latter scenario, he has more than enough service time to reject an outright assignment and elect free agency.
Wow, since this team really is going nowhere, Im, glad Colas gets another chance to show what he can… annd he’s back to AAA
They just shuffle mediocre players around to make it look like they’re doing something. Like an office worker shuffling papers when the boss walks around. Pathetic ownership and management.
Are a minimum 3 years away from competing.
Nice to see them going with young (30+ yr old) players to build for that future.
This team will set the mlb record for transactions as they continually DFA players, shuttle so many back and forth through the minors and bigs, make trades and deal with injuries and anything else in an effort to try to find 25 guys even close to ML caliber.
A joke of a franchise. As a fan of the team, I’d rather the team move than give Reinsdorf even 1 dollar of public money for a new stadium.
I admit Im not sure how player ‘options’ work, I always assumed that they lose one every time they are brought up so doesn’t that mean that teams should not be just arbitrarily moving guys back and forth, or am I just not understanding the ‘optioning’ process?
Options are a yearly thing.
You can call up/ demote a player up to 5 times per year.
Doing it once counts against an “option year”
@Phree4u: Thanks for the info!
Next to go -Garcia-maybe Leone
I think Remillard deserves a decent amount of time to prove himself.
He at least plays hard and fundamentally. I’d rather watch him try and fail than watch the other guys (like moncada and eloy) not try and fail. The team, like Reinsdorf’s other team, lack consistent heart and hustle. They both have for over a decade now.
Jerry cuts corners. He has not invested in the modern day infrastructure necessary to field a competitive team. They have a third of the scouts that’s the Dodgers do. They don’t develop players in the minors, and Jerry doesn’t augment the roster by spending money on top tier free agents. Mark my words. The White Sox will not be competitive until they have a new owner.
socalsoxfan: Yeah, all Sox fans – except for those still going to Sox Park – know what a skinflint Reinsdorf is. Even worse, he simply doesn’t care about his own team. Because of that, even if the Sox finish dead last, they can’t draft in the top ten selections in this year’s draft because of the non-competitive rule. And you know what? Reinsdorf still won’t care.
Sure they can, sign a bunch of 1-2 year deals, one long term deal once their top prospects come up. Jerry did say that analytics ruin the game. Jerry is cheap but not John Fisher(who also haven’t invested in his team either) or Bob Nutting cheap.
Reinsdorf is every bit as cheap as any other owner in the majors. He still has never signed a guy to a $100+ million contract or a $20+ million AAV.
This is one poorly run team. What they don’t have any prospects that in their early 20’s. The best they’ve got is an aged 30+ pitcher who last played in the bigs five years ago…
I commend Justin Anderson for his strong fight to keep playing and I hope him success in this go around. But come on WS, you blew your opportunity to be a contender when you brought back Tony LaRussa and destroyed the vibe. Tony was a great manager at one time, but 70 years plus, can’t handle what it takes to be a manager in the bigs.
And Pedro is a nice guy as manager, but he’s not a great fit for this squad.
Pedro seems like a bench coach who probably shouldn’t have been promoted to the big chair. He’s got the experience. He’s got the organization skill it seems. He lacks any of the media training/soft skills.
He’d be great with a fungo on a back field somewhere. He should not be the voice of your team promoting the team to reporters 2-3 times a day
The dude was with KC 10 plus years. He did help Jorge Soler and Salvy achieve their career seasons. He’s probably one of the worst managers in White Sox history, can’t blame it all on him.
I bet he’s really good at the coaching side. He’s probably earned that reputation. Managing is way more than coaching.
There’s a reason why guys like Harold Baines were always coaches and never managers and it’s because there is half the job which is all talking and getting reporters and fans on board.
Pedro can’t open his mouth without sounding weird and defensive.
It’s why a lot of Sox fans kind of miss Ricky Renteria. He wasn’t the best manager but when he talked at least you kind of liked him.
Kinda wish they kept Renteria for the same reasons you said.
Sheesh! I could care less if Renteria mooned the press instead of answering reporters questions. He’s the one who managed a lot of talented guys to the PO in year 3 of a 5 year rebuild. The sad thing is, Reinsdorf has kept him on as an advisor. The Sox direction, with that kind of brain trust behind the team, is straight down
Eric: Actually, I think the “talent” on this team matches up perfectly with Grifol’s ability. At first I thought he wasn’t the right guy to take a bunch of misfits and rebuild with them. Then I realized Reinsdorf has no interest in building a competitive team. Since he won’t sell, the rest of the owners should grow a pair and take the team away from him.
Why on the world would the other owners want Reinsdorf gone? Another owner may actually run the team like a major-market team instead of running it like the small-town division rivals in Cleveland, Minnesota, and Kansas City.
Mohoney: The difference is, at least Cleveland, Minnesota and K.C. field competitive teams.
It doesn’t appear that Reinsdorf has any passion for the game of baseball anymore. Not sure how much he ever had in the first place. It’s delusional of him to want a new ballpark.
And Reinsdorf fields a garbage team, which helps out those other owners from a competitive standpoint. They don’t have to worry about the White Sox winning games on the field or winning bidding wars for premium talent off the field.
Pedro is clueless, and the team reflects this. Ever since late last season when Middleton aired the Sox dirty laundry of being leaderless and then Grifol appearing to be clueless to this spoke volumes to me. The fact he is still around shows that Reinsdorf does not really care, especially when his ‘expert’ GM tried to make this team into the (recent) KC Royals.. and guess what? Mission accomplished. Aside from about 3-4 years, the Royal have been a trainwreck of an org over the past 30 years.
At some point–but likely not this season–Pedro will become a causality of this horribly-managed org. JR will need to spill blood to prove to the media and fans that he is listening and he cares. He could sign a pitcher for 5 years and $200M or can Pedro. Gee, I wonder which he’ll choose? I don’t know exactly when Pedro will get jerked, but my money is on Charlie Montoya as the next manager of your Bleak Sox.
Not sure if Charlie will get a chance to begin with. They might just fire the entire coaching staff at the end of the season. I would of done this if I was Getz.
Keeping Grifol around, along with Katz, is a bit silly to me, and if anything points to how miserly ‘The Chairman’ is in that he does not even want to pay a mediocre salary like Grifol’s if he fired him.
I mean really almost every time they show Katz in the dugout he is not even watching, he is staring that that clipboard, or maybe a tablet. I rarely see him talking to his young pitchers, heck I saw in a game last season Grifol (who does not exactly know much about being a leader) talking at length to Kopech while Katz is sitting near and not paying attention, just staring at his clipboard and looking off into ‘space.’. I miss the days of a coach going out to talk to their beleaguered pitcher.. mound visit count or not to ensure that they can get through a tough inning (at least to begin with then you give them a bit more ‘leeway as time goes one).
I see a lot of White Sox pitchers getting hung out to dry on that mound for the past few seasons.. mound visits or not..
and lets not even begin with that know nothing third base coach of Grifol’s.
Eric Olson 2: Colson, Quero, Ramos are under 25 years of age. Their prospect list isn’t awful but they do lack elite prospects, thus being ranked #18 I believe. From 26th to 18th isn’t terrible but next year it should be around 15th-16th. Anywhere from maybe 15th to 21st or 22nd isn’t awful.
@Aiden: You hit it right on the head, how bad this org really is. I do not care about their MILB ‘rank’ either, it does not tell the whole story. A good org, like Atlanta, finds talent over and over again and develops it, They did not have to trade to get it, AND they develop that talent into diamonds. The Sox have pretty much relied on other teams hard work, or drafting high, even then they typically drop the ball when it comes to development of said players. That is a major issue with the White Sox org as a whole.. No development to speak of. The good players are good, but the average or guys with potential never get developed or see that potential in this org (and who was responsible for that in his previous role, the current GM).
I hope that it turns around with the current brain trust, but it will take years to see the fruits of any positive changes they make.. Maybe the miser could actually pump some money into the minor league system to ensure his players have all the tools to develop… nah, their go scout the Cuban wires and see if they can get another guy to overpay to watch get injured a lot.
Time will tell if Getz is a better GM than Rick Hahn or Kenny Williams.
To be honest, I don’t want Grifol’s garbage anywhere near the young talent in the minors. Save a year of service time on all those guys, and bring them up when a real manager arrives.
“…isn’t awful” doesn’t qualify as high praise.
Sell the the team Mr.Reinsdor,Nashville is calling please pick up or call. Bad brand of baseball from ownership to top to bottom organization. Dont care about team fans.
If ‘Mr Reinsdorf’ sells the team, they can stay in Chicago… If he wants to keep being a miser for this club (and for the Bulls too, for that matter… hope Jr is not as much of a miser as the old man is), then Nashville can have this mistake of an owner.
Justin has much promise. Some see Mr. Anderson as the next savior. A Neo as it were.
Hard to read about the White Sox. Always been one of my favorite AL teams. I am still grateful for them playing in Milwaukee prior to the Brewers coming.
Mahoney: Yoan Moncada is getting paid 24M this season.
Still hurts to be reminded of that… An awfully expensive bench buffer.