Outfielder Joshua Palacios has been sent outright to Triple-A Charlotte, according to his transactions tracker at MLB.com. That indicates he cleared waivers after being designated for assignment by the White Sox last week. He has the right to elect free agency but the tracker doesn’t indicate if he will do so.
Palacios, 29, burned his final option year in 2024. He therefore came into 2025 out of options with the Pirates. He didn’t make the Opening Day roster and eventually elected free agency after clearing outright waivers. He landed a minor league deal with the White Sox but was up in the big leagues again by April 10th.
He got into 51 games for the Sox and stepped to the plate 145 times but produced a tepid batting line of .203/.292/.305. That got him nudged off the roster and he unsurprisingly has cleared waivers yet again.
Palacios has generally performed well at the Triple-A level over the years, with a slash of .302/.389/.482 across 720 plate appearances. That has led to sporadic big league opportunities that he hasn’t been able to capitalize on. Having previously appeared for the Blue Jays, Nationals, Pirates and now the White Sox, he has received 578 major league plate appearances over five separate seasons with a .223/.287/.349 line and 75 wRC+.
As mentioned, Palacios can elect free agency but would surely be limited to minor league offers. If he stays with the White Sox, more outfield playing time should open up later in the year. Mike Tauchman, Austin Slater and Michael A. Taylor are all impending free agents, making them natural trade candidates on a bad White Sox club. Luis Robert Jr.’s deal has $20MM club options for 2026 and 2027 but those are unlikely to be picked up with the way he’s played over the past year and a half, so he’ll surely be flipped in the next six weeks for whatever the Sox can get. The team would also surely love to unload the final two and a half years of Andrew Benintendi’s contract, though it will be tough to find another club willing to absorb it.
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Why do they keep sending BROOKS Baldwin down? He’s playing better than anyone in the Sox organization.
Dude, are you Brooks Baldwin’s mommy? Let it go
Brooks may get there eventually. But he’s got an OPS + of 62 and -1.3 WAR so needs a lot more seasoning
Because he pinch hit 3 times this past weekend vs Texas and struck all all 3 times!
He is batting .211.
Agree about Baldwin. He has looked much better when he has been up this season.
On another topic, I realize when you’re the announcer for a noncontending team you have to find positives, but John Schriffen is so maladroit at that, as he is at everything. Last night, while the Sox were slumbering through a lopsided loss to the Cardinals, he got on his hobbyhorse and started urging Sox fans to vote in a “very deserving” Mike Tauchman to the All-Star team as a DH. I’m all for the Palatine Pounder, and wish the Cubs had kept him, he’s a good hitter–but he has no business on the All-Star team, and no rational person would say otherwise. Steve Stone sounded pained, as he often does working with the abominable Schriffen.
Did anybody find out whose idea it was Sunday to steal second with one out and the tying run on third. Is that just the White Sox way?
Atlanta: Incompetent? Yes.
Atlanta Jack: Incompetent? Yes.
@Jack: Not sure, but maybe it was the same person who told the Sox post-game guy not to include the Cubs score, win or lose, when running down the results of other games. That’ll show ’em!
Imagine the mentality that would come up with that. It is the definition of lame.
So far tonight Baldwin is 3 for 3 with 2 home runs and a triple and he’s not on the Sox.
He is a good AAA MiLB but not ready MLB player.
Lenyn Sosa is back up.
Elko looked lost at the plate, a 30% K rate in the minors doesn’t help this cause whatsoever. Baldwin will be up once Robert is traded. I think the Sox want to develop Baldwin like Leury Garcia.
tjg25: The Sox organization is not good at developing players, to say the least. The prospects they got in trades learned the game with their previous clubs. When they get to the Sox, they regress.
Baldwin is an infielder and has terrible instincts in the outfield. So, naturally, the White Sox will make him play the outfield.
And terrible instincts on the basepaths too. Some reminiscent of the golden age of Nick Madrigal
Just tired….the Baldwin and Elko escapades is how you destroy prospects. Your going to lose 90 plus games anyway so why not let them battle through the highs and lows of being everyday players so you can evaluate what their ceilings might be for 2026 and beyond. Sending them down to AAA to work on things with coaches that are deemed not good enough to be MLB coaches makes no sense. They should be sitting down with Thames and crew after good and bad stretches and learning at the MLB level.
Brooklyn’s finest is a real fan favorite, always wishing that kid the best on the diamond, and in life.