The White Sox announced that they have selected the contract of infielder/outfielder Zach Remillard. He will take the roster spot of outfielder Robbie Grossman, who was traded to the Rangers earlier today.
Remillard, 30, has been bouncing on and off the White Sox’ roster in the past year. He was added to the 40-man in June of 2023 and lasted through the end of the season, but was designated for assignment in January. He cleared waivers at that time and stayed in the organization, getting added back to the roster in mid-April. He lasted about a week before getting designated for assignment and outrighted again, but has now quickly returned.
Around those transactions, he has stepped to the plate 165 times at the big league level with a batting line of .250/.292/.316. He has stolen four bases in seven tries while playing the three infield positions to the left of first base, in addition to some time in the outfield corners. He also has some experience at first base and center field in the minors.
The White Sox recently placed Danny Mendick on the injured list, subtracting a multi-positional player from their roster. They also have Yoán Moncada and Luis Robert Jr. on the IL. With the club firmly rebuilding and well out of contention, the Sox didn’t hesitate to move on from Grossman and further trades could also be forthcoming.
Tommy Pham and Paul DeJong are veterans on one-year deals and would be candidates to be flipped in the same manner as Grossman. Prospect Bryan Ramos is an unknown as he has just four games of major league experience right now. Braden Shewmake isn’t hitting at all this year and he could perhaps be sent to the minors for regular at-bats.
As players come and go, either due to injuries or transactions, Remillard can be bounced all around the diamond to fill in as needed. But it also wouldn’t be a surprise to see him bounced off the roster again for the third time this year.
yeah!!
White Sox select Zach Remilard to………Save the season! No? Could happen. LOL
And I thought last year was bad . What a bunch of REJECTS . That’s what you unless you pay millions and millions of dollars on multi year contracts and proven stars JR is never gonna do that. He thinks he he will finally find a diamond in the rough if he keeps fishing the Chicago River
Glad he’s back.
I agree. I wish he was the SS instead of Dejong.
You the guy before must be enemies of the ChiSox
Both together don’t anything better than Montgomery
What language is that?
Why? Have you seen either of them hit this year? At least DeJong can run into the occasional bad pitch and hit it over the fence. All Shewmake does is hit ground balls and play bad defense. Neither of them will be flippable at the deadline, and neither of them have a future here. Hopefully both of them, as well as Nicky Lopez, Lenyn Sosa, and Zach Remillard, will be out of our lives in 2025. By that point, Colson Montgomery should be playing SS every day, Bryan Ramos should be playing 3B every day, and maybe a kid like Brooks Baldwin can be the primary 2B and hop around the diamond as needed.
By next year, the “1-year veteran stopgap” approach should be largely replaced by a “let the kids play” approach. I just hope the clueless manager is replaced by that time.
A new ballpark is not gonna make everything shiny in the South Side. They have an amazing assistant groundskeeper SH. Ownership should make themselves a billion dollars and sell
The whole situation is a carry over. MESS from last year . Not much experience anywhere
The White Sox are so far back that this transaction and any other transaction (outside of a real trade) doesn’t really matter.
They NEVER get the best of any trade.
Well I guess they have his nickname: “Boomerang” maybe its ‘Boomerang B’ With Sosa being Boomerang A’
Yeet.
I think that, when Robert comes back, the Sox have an actual difficult choice to make as to who goes back to the minors. Id almost say to dump Vaughn back there and keep Sheets on the MLB roster, but then Vaughn actually had a good game yesterday with the bat.
Also, if I were the Sox GM, Id keep Pham after the trade deadline. I get that he is not on a big contract (which I bet ‘The Chairman’ loves actually) and they may get something decent for him, but the Sox have desperately needed a leadoff hitter for some time now. Pham may be that guy, as Im not really seeing anyone else on this roster, or in the minors, that fits that bill.
He will probably be traded but If I were the GM Id keep him for at least next season.
The White Sox will use Tommy Pham to rebuild by trading him to a Pennant Contender. Already the D-Backs and Padres wished they had signed Pham during Spring Training.