The White Sox released right-hander Cody Sedlock earlier this week, according to the pitcher’s transaction log on MLB.com. He had signed a minor league contract with Chicago back in April.
Selected in the first round of the 2016 MLB Draft, Sedlock was once a well-regarded pitching prospect in the Orioles’ farm system. Unfortunately, his stock dropped quickly after a poor 2017 season at High-A, and thoracic outlet syndrome got in the way of his 2018 campaign. Although he was no longer a top prospect, Sedlock continued to work his way through the minors over the next several years, and in 2022, he finally earned his call to the show. His time in the majors was brief – the Orioles promoted him for one appearance before designating him for assignment – but Sedlock will always have major league experience on his resume.
Sedlock finished out the 2022 campaign in the Tigers organization, pitching to a 3.51 ERA for the Triple-A Toledo Mud Hens. He then elected free agency and sat out the entire 2023 season after undergoing Tommy John surgery in March. The righty returned to a professional mound for the Charlotte Knights (the White Sox’s Triple-A affiliate) in mid-May 2024, just over 14 months after his surgery, and pitched five innings over six appearances before he was released. He walked 13 of the 30 batters he faced, striking out only two. Although he gave up just three hits, he allowed 10 earned runs to cross the plate. His performance was undeniably disappointing, but it is worth remembering that he is still just 16 months removed from UCL surgery. It could take more time for his elbow to return to full strength.
As a free agent, Sedlock is now able to seek out his next opportunity. Not yet 30 years old, he would be a low-risk investment for a team in need of right-handed pitching depth.
He got a 2 million signing bonus
If he properly invested that he would never need to actually do any work again
wow, I hope that someone takes a flyer on him and gives him a little more time to come back from his TJ. I had wondered what became of him after the Orioles couldn’t wait any longer on his development.
worth a shot of minors contract, but yikes those are terrible results with the Charlotte AAA team post surgery.
Another DDDD disaster pick, Sedlock and Stewart in back to back years? OUCH!
Mike Elias sure makes drafting look easy now, but darn, those were some barren years of drafting before him.
While duquette wasn’t necessarily a good drafter by any means Sedlock and Stewart went 27th and 25th overall. Its a lot harder to draft when you don’t have a pick in the top 10 like Elias has had. Gunner only went in the second round because it was believed he had extreme interest in attending Auburn. While both Cody and Dj were big upside players. Keep in mind duquette was the one who drafted grayrod.
I had nearly completely forgot about DJ as a pick. Yikes. Didn’t a ball bounce off his head that he was trying to field? Sedlock obviously had some injury and the TOS, but DJ… that was a poorly scouted pick.
Yes, the Jose Canseco school of outfielding!
You can sit here and say every pick that was in the first round that didn’t workout was “poorly scouted” idiotic comment imo
Not to mention that Dj went 25th overall and the only players to note in the “first round” after him were Taylor Ward, Soroka, Ke’Bryan Hayes, and Mountcastle who was drafted by the orioles.
But DJ is good enough to warm the Mets bench. Not just another oneof Showalter’s charity nostalgia roster spots when they first signed him.
By “Nostalgia” roster spots I’m guessing you are talking about Tommy Hunter and maybe givens or yacabonis who combined for 26 total games. But either way this is one of the stupidest comments I’ve seen on here.
You forgot about TJ McFarland, “Genius.” Obviously no one is paying you for your pretended expertise or “writing skills.” Sorry if this is the only place in your life where you feel any importance and you have to fetishize the jockocracy in your lame efforts to police the conversation.
Simp
If I was a GM, thoracic outlet syndrome is the kiss of death.
The release of Cody Sedlock by the White Sox underscores the profound impact of cumulative neurovascular and musculoskeletal pathologies, particularly thoracic outlet syndrome and the subsequent ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction, on his kinetic chain efficiency and proprioceptive acuity. Sedlock’s recent performance metrics, characterized by an anomalously high walk rate and diminished strikeout efficacy, likely reflect incomplete neuromuscular re-education and suboptimal scapulohumeral rhythm post-Tommy John surgery, necessitating advanced biomechanical interventions and proprioceptive recalibration to realize his latent potential.
So they’ll be playing the remainder of the season out of Sedlock?
Sad for him. Money aside, this must be a huge disappointment.
Tyler Jay? Can someone tell me the last time UIUC was good at anything?