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4 days ago
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White Sox willing to include money to get rid of 2 former All-Star outfielders
The Chicago White Sox are bad again — just not as bad as last year. That might be the saddest compliment in MLB. With a 23-52 record heading into late June, the White Sox remain buried in the American League standings. This season was never about contention, but there hasn't been too much progress in 2025, and that's hard to stomach. Advertisement General manager Chris Getz inherited a hollowed-out roster and a frustrated fanbase. And now, with the trade deadline approaching, he's staring at a familiar problem: he doesn't have much left to sell. A Fire Sale with Nothing Left to Burn Over the past two years, Chicago has already unloaded most of its valuable pieces. Dylan Cease, Lucas Giolito, Jake Burger, Kendall Graveman — all gone in the name of a fresh start. What remains is a bare-bones group with two names that might still carry some weight on the market: Luis Robert Jr. and Andrew Benintendi. Credit: Raymond Carlin III-Imagn Images Robert and Benintendi were both All-Stars at their peaks, but neither is currently playing like one. Their names might draw interest, but their production — or lack of it — makes a clean trade complicated. The Luis Robert Dilemma: Talent vs. Timeline Luis Robert Jr. remains the most tantalizing enigma on the roster. In 2023, he was a true five-tool player, blasting 38 home runs, stealing 20 bases, and patrolling center field with Gold Glove grace. Advertisement But 2023 was also the only time in his career he managed to stay on the field for more than 100 games. Since the start of 2024, Robert has been a shadow of that player, slashing a weak .212/.276/.351 with a dismal 75 wRC+. His recent stretch of injuries and poor performance has torpedoed his value. Despite that, Robert's upside remains sky-high. He's just 27, under team control through 2027, and only earning $15 million this season. Two club options at $20 million per year make him an appealing gamble — if the White Sox are willing to eat some salary. Benintendi: Slightly Better, Still Uninspiring Andrew Benintendi's case is less polarizing. He's healthy and hitting a respectable .246/.309/.444 with a 108 wRC+ in 2025. That's slightly above average — not exactly thrilling, but certainly better than Robert's recent returns. Advertisement Benintendi made the All-Star team back in 2022 and still brings some value as a veteran outfielder with playoff experience. But he's not a difference-maker, and his contract is considered a burden by many front offices. In a sense, Benintendi is like a used sedan with decent mileage — reliable enough, but no one's paying sticker price. Credit: Kamil Krzaczynski-Imagn Images The Front Office May Need to Sweeten the Pot According to The Athletic's Ken Rosenthal and Will Sammon, the White Sox are open to including cash to move either Robert or Benintendi, as Steve Adams of MLB Trade Rumors writes. That alone suggests a stark shift from the optimism they carried into the season. Advertisement Chris Getz had surely hoped Robert would rebuild his value on the field. Instead, he's watching one of his biggest trade chips rapidly depreciate in plain sight. If Chicago ends up covering a chunk of Robert's remaining salary, the return could still be meaningful. Teams like the Phillies, Mariners, or even the Mets might take a swing on a bounce-back candidate with MVP upside. Benintendi could also draw light interest from clubs needing outfield depth — but again, probably only if Chicago helps cover the bill. Rebuilding with Nothing to Rebuild With This is the reality for the 2025 White Sox: a team stuck halfway between the end of a teardown and the beginning of something new. Advertisement The franchise bet big on players like Robert and Benintendi becoming cornerstones. Now they're just hoping someone else sees enough value to take them off their hands. The trade deadline is a chance to reset — again — but it's hard to rebuild when all your bricks are cracked or overpriced. READ MORE: MLB Trade Talk: 5 teams who could potentially make a move for Andrew Heaney Related Headlines
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7 days ago
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Chicago Tribune
21-06-2025
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- Chicago Tribune
Chicago White Sox end 8-game skid with 7-1 rout behind home runs from Andrew Benintendi and Luis Robert Jr.
TORONTO — The Chicago White Sox used the long ball to bring their eight-game losing streak to an emphatic end. Andrew Benintendi and Luis Robert Jr. hit tape-measure home runs in a 7-1 victory against the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday at Rogers Centre. 'We did a good job collectively of controlling the zone,' manager Will Venable said. 'It was a full team commitment offensively to shrink the zone, and we didn't miss our pitches.' Benintendi blasted a 425-foot solo home run to right field against Blue Jays starter Spencer Turnbull in the first inning. It had an exit velocity of 108.3 mph. 'We want to be aggressive and he clipped that ball pretty good,' Venable said. 'Really did a good job of setting the tone for the group and the rest of the guys followed. Love the damage there.' Robert crushed a 441-foot, two-run home run to left field against reliever Mason Fluharty during a four-run third inning. It had an exit velocity of 114.2 mph. Robert is 9-for-33 (.273) with two home runs, two doubles and six RBIs in his last 10 games. 'He looked good here, has the last couple of days,' Venable said. 'Really staying through the baseball, swinging at good pitches. And you see the result today. You get excited when you see Luis do damage like that.' Austin Slater and Benintendi collected RBI singles in the second inning, and Josh Rojas knocked in two with a double in the third in the runaway win in front of 36,121. The Sox (24-52) used five pitchers in a bullpen game after placing scheduled starter Davis Martin on the injured list on Friday with a right forearm strain. Grant Taylor displayed his blazing fastball during a 1-2-3 first inning in his first major-league start. 'He pounded the zone with a plus fastball,' Venable said. 'For me, if you can throw 100 (mph), use that thing and see what you've got. And he did that tonight.' After two groundouts, Taylor ended the inning striking out Vladimir Guerrero Jr. swinging on a 99.2-mph high fastball. 'The big takeaway was that (Guerrero) at-bat — four heaters, three up top of the zone, got some swing and miss,' Taylor said. 'Was really excited about that.' Tyler Alexander earned the win in the bulk role, allowing four hits and striking out two during four scoreless innings. He induced ending-inning double plays in the fourth and fifth innings — the second of which erased a bases-loaded situation. 'We had a mound visit, talked through what we wanted to do (facing Tyler Heineman with the bases loaded and one out in the fifth),' Alexander said. 'Fortunately he put the ball on the ground early. That helped. The (Guerrero) double play (in the fourth), huge. Well-executed pitches and got weak contact.' Venable said Alexander's outing was 'amazing.' 'He continues to pitch crucial innings for us where he's attacking the zone,' Venable said. 'He's fearless too.' Wikelman González allowed one run on one hit with two strikeouts and two walks in his major-league debut. The right-hander, called up Friday from Triple-A Charlotte, struck out Ernie Clement swinging for his first MLB punchout to end the seventh inning. He got Guerrero to line out to Benintendi in left field with two on for the final out of the eighth. 'It was a little exciting to face one of the best hitters in the world, but I trusted my stuff and I'm glad I got him out,' González said through an interpreter. After several close losses during the skid, the Sox clicked across the board to return to the win column. 'They did a great job in every phase of the game,' Venable said. 'Pitching was outstanding, we pounded the zone all night. Defense was great, (Lenyn) Sosa made some great plays (at second base). … Really good stuff all over the field. 'These guys have been working so hard and to have it on a game like that where everyone contributed, everyone played well, it's really nice to see.'
USA Today
19-06-2025
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- USA Today
Andrew Benintendi Player Props: June 19, White Sox vs. Cardinals
Andrew Benintendi Player Props: June 19, White Sox vs. Cardinals Andrew Benintendi's Chicago White Sox play the St. Louis Cardinals on June 19 at 2:10 p.m. ET, and will see starting pitcher Erick Fedde on the mound. Benintendi put up one hit in his last game, finishing 1-for-4. Find odds, stats, and more below to make your Andrew Benintendi player prop bets. Benintendi is hitting .235 with nine doubles, a triple, six home runs and 15 walks. Watch tonight's White Sox game on Fubo! Andrew Benintendi Prop Bets and Odds Hits Prop: 0.5 hits (Over odds: -222) 0.5 hits (Over odds: -222) Home Runs Prop: 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +550) 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +550) RBI Prop: 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +175) 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +175) Runs Prop: 0.5 runs (Over odds: +125) 0.5 runs (Over odds: +125) Total Bases Prop: 1.5 total bases (Over odds: +140) 1.5 total bases (Over odds: +140) Stolen Bases Prop: 0.5 stolen bases (Over odds: +950) How to Watch Chicago White Sox vs. St. Louis Cardinals Matchup: Chicago White Sox vs. St. Louis Cardinals Chicago White Sox vs. St. Louis Cardinals Time: 2:10 p.m. ET 2:10 p.m. ET Date: Thursday, June 19, 2025 Thursday, June 19, 2025 TV Channel: CHSN and FDSMW CHSN and FDSMW Live Stream: Fubo (Watch now! - Regional restrictions may apply) Andrew Benintendi vs. Erick Fedde Andrew Benintendi prop bet insights Benintendi has reached base with a hit 30 times this season in 46 games played (65.2%), including multiple hits in 13.0% of them (six times). He has homered in 13.0% of his games in 2025 (six of 46), 3.3% of his trips to the dish. In 17 of 46 games this year (37.0%), Benintendi has scored a run, and three of those games (6.5%) included an effort that produced two or more runs scored. He has picked up at least one RBI 15 times this season in 46 tries (32.6%), including driving in multiple runs in 8.7% of games (four times) and producing three or more of his team's runs on three occasions. Benintendi has been set down on strikes at least once 23 times this year in 46 tries (50.0%), including striking out on multiple occasions in 17.4% of games (eight times). MLB odds courtesy of BetMGM Sportsbook. Odds updated Thursday at 1:28 p.m. ET. For a full list of sports betting odds, access USA TODAY Sports Betting Scores Odds Hub. Andrew Benintendi stats against the Cardinals Date Opp. SP H/AB XBH HR RBI R K/BB SB 5/4/2024 Lance Lynn 1-for-5 0 0 0 1 1/0 0 5/3/2024 Sonny Gray 0-for-3 0 0 0 0 0/0 0 7/7/2023 Jordan Montgomery 1-for-5 0 0 0 0 1/0 0 8/7/2022 Adam Wainwright 2-for-5 1 0 0 2 2/0 0 8/6/2022 Jordan Montgomery 0-for-1 0 0 0 0 0/0 0 8/5/2022 Dakota Hudson 1-for-4 1 0 0 0 0/0 0 5/4/2022 Adam Wainwright 0-for-3 0 0 0 0 0/0 0 5/3/2022 Dakota Hudson 2-for-5 0 0 1 1 0/0 0 5/2/2022 Steven Matz 1-for-3 0 0 0 0 0/0 0 4/12/2022 Dakota Hudson 0-for-4 0 0 0 0 1/0 0 Cardinals starter: Erick Fedde Fedde (3-6) takes the hill for the Cardinals in his 15th start of the season. He has produced a 3.65 ERA in 79 2/3 innings pitched, with 51 Ks. When he last took the hill on Saturday versus the Milwaukee Brewers, the righty went 5 1/3 innings, allowing three earned runs while surrendering four hits. Among qualifying pitchers, the 32-year-old's 3.65 ERA ranks 39th, 1.278 WHIP ranks 49th, and 5.8 K/9 ranks 72nd this season. Fedde is looking to notch his seventh quality start in this outing.
Boston Globe
06-06-2025
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- Boston Globe
Eight years later it's clear he made the wrong call on Benintendi vs. Judge, and other thoughts
Advertisement Which guy would you rather have on your team for the next 15 seasons?' Judge or Benintendi? Nine inches taller, and 100 pounds heavier than Boston's hot shot, Judge (6 feet 7 inches, 285 pounds), already had 32 homers at the time I posed the question and was clearly the AL's top rookie. But I liked our guy just a little better. Judge had a big hole in his swing and I saw Benintendi as a young Yaz, a pure talent who'd get better every year. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up And so . . . after many paragraphs on Big Poison vs. Little Poison — noting that Judge hit .155 (9 for 58) with one homer and two RBIs in his first 15 games against the Sox, while Benintendi had four homers and 12 RBIs against the Yankees — I concluded, 'I'm taking Benintendi,' and it splashed down in the Globe under the headline, 'The vote here is Benintendi.' Advertisement In an August 2017 column, Dan Shaughnessy asked himself who he'd rather have on the Red Sox for the next 15 years, Aaron Judge or Andrew Benintendi. Safe to say he missed the mark. Boston Globe Wow. In a half-century of opinions that sometimes didn't age well, this is one of the worst. It's right there with 'The Sox should sign Pablo Sandoval,' 'No way Nick Foles and Doug Peterson can beat Tom Brady and Bill Belichick,' and 'The Celtics are going to repeat in 2025.' Put it this way: My Benintendi-over-Judge pick in 2017 would be like some dope in 1997 inheriting a bag of cash and thinking, 'Never mind this fledgling Apple stock, I think I'll sink all my dough into a chain of Blockbuster video stores.' Benintendi, who turns 31 next month, played five seasons for Boston and made a critical catch when the powerhouse Red Sox beat the Astros in the 2018 ALCS and went on to win the World Series. In February 2021, the Sox traded him to Kansas City for Franchy Cordero (think I predicted Franchy would become Willie McCovey) and he was an All-Star with the Royals a year later. In 2023, Benintendi signed a five-year, $75 million contract with the White Sox, and he was with them when they lost 121 games last year. In his ninth big league season, Benintendi is a career .269 hitter, averaging 16 homers and 78 RBIs per 162 games. He's injury-prone but an above-average player when healthy. In 2023, Andrew Benintendi signed a five-year, $75 million contract with the White Sox. Frank Franklin II/Associated Press The 33-year-old Judge, meanwhile, is drawing comparisons with Mickey Mantle and Babe Ruth. At this hour, he's on pace for the best non-steroid individual slugging season since Ruth more than 100 years ago. Judge leads the American League in batting, OBP, slugging, OPS, runs, and hits. He's a six-time All-Star, a two-time MVP, and hit 62 home runs in 2022. Last year, he batted .322 with 58 homers and 144 RBIs. This year, he's been even better. Four hundred total bases is not out of the question. Advertisement He's also team captain, a fully accountable, legitimate leader. He dropped a ball in center field that triggered a Yankee collapse in Game 5 of last year's World Series at Yankee Stadium, but he has no trouble talking about the misplay and pledges to do better in 2025. The Red Sox will see plenty of Judge this weekend in Yankee Stadium. He's got a good shot at returning to the World Series in October and will be a first-ballot Hall of Famer when his career is over. He's one of the all-time greats. And yes. Upon further review, this dope concedes that Judge is even better than Andrew Benintendi. ⋅ Quiz: 1: Name four Celtics who are in the top 20 on the NBA career playoff assists list; 2. Name three Bruins who played more than 1,000 games with the Black and Gold, but played for no other NHL team (answers below). ⋅ ⋅ Inadvertent Metaphor Department: Jason Aldean's 'Full Throttle Tour' appearance at Fenway Park last weekend was canceled because of structural problems with the stage (sometimes this stuff writes itself, no?). ⋅ Red Sox broadcasters need to stop insulting our intelligence by pumping the tires of every non-horrible thing Sox players do. Trevor Story's 'breakout weekend' in Atlanta ended with him hitting .222. On Sunday, he struck out three more times after the Braves' starter made the mistake of throwing him a first-inning curveball ( Advertisement ⋅ Forgive me if I'm not amused when ace Garrett Crochet (he of 14 career wins) tells the whole world he's going to throw a fastball to start every game. In Crochet's first 13 starts with the Red Sox, leadoff batters went 6 for 13 against him. Two of the leadoff hitters homered on the first pitch and Boston lost both games by a run. How is this a good thing for the Red Sox? ⋅ In a related matter, have you ever seen a bad baseball team do more in-game celebrating than the 2025 Red Sox? ⋅ Had a wonderful conversation with former (1963-65) Red Sox outfielder Jim Gosger. Jim was back in the news two weeks ago when a homebred colt named 'Gosger' (the horse is named in his honor) Advertisement ⋅ Thibs, We Hardly Knew Ye: ⋅ Do the Knicks and their fans feel just a little bit silly for their embarrassing overreaction to beating the Celtics in six games in the Eastern Conference semifinals? New York folks were renaming street signs after the early-round victory. Now they are watching the Finals, just like us. Jalen Brunson and the Knicks beat the Celtics in six games, but then lost to the Pacers in six. Michael Conroy/Associated Press ⋅ The Celtics and Pacers played six-game playoff series against the Knicks. Boston averaged 15 more 3-point attempts per game than Indiana in its six games vs. New York. The Pacers beat the Knicks in six. The Celtics lost in six. Wonder why? ⋅ The Pacers have never won the NBA Finals. Coach Larry Bird's team, led by Reggie Miller, lost to the Lakers in six in the 2000 Finals. The Pacers won ABA titles in 1970, '72, and '73, and joined the NBA in 1976. ⋅ The vaunted Worcester Telegram should be covering the NBA Finals. Pacers coach Rick Carlisle played a prep season at Worcester Academy before moving on to the Universities of Maine and Virginia. Thunder coach Mark Daigneault grew up in Leominster, was a student manager under Jim Calhoun at UConn, a mentee of former Holy Cross coach George Blaney, and a three-year assistant coach at HC. Daigneault's father, Rick, played baseball for the Crusaders and graduated in 1980. The Daigneault family has owned and run The Il Camino restaurant in Leominster since 1971. Advertisement ⋅ Deion Sanders, who's been dealing with health issues lately, returned to the public eye on Asante Samuel's May 30 podcast and acknowledged 'it did hurt' when ⋅ One of the best writers around, Mark Kriegel, has written 'Baddest Man: The Making of Mike Tyson.' Buy it . . . If you like lacrosse, go for S.L. Price's 'The American Game.' ⋅ Know anyone named Brooks? It could be because of Hall of Fame Orioles third baseman Brooks Robinson, who died in September 2023. In the late 1970s, after Reggie Jackson spent one year with the Orioles, then became famous as Mr. October with the Yankees, Jackson wanted a candy bar named after him and got his wish with the 'Reggie!' bar. Baltimore Associated Press sportswriter Gordon Beard said, 'In New York, they named a candy bar after Reggie Jackson. Here in Baltimore, we name our children after Brooks Robinson.' Orioles Hall of Fame third baseman Brooks Robinson was beloved in Baltimore. Associated Press True. ESPN's Tim Kurkjian, a Maryland native, still speaks of a long-ago trip to Disney World when his children were young: 'I was hundreds of miles from home and twice within an hour people introduced themselves to me, told me they were from Baltimore, and said they were named after Brooks Robinson!' In 1991, baseball's master choreographer, Dr. Charles Steinberg, then with the Orioles, presided over the closing weekend of Baltimore's Memorial Stadium (where the O's played before Camden Yards) and held a small promotion allowing fans named after Brooks Robinson to walk the warning track before a game. According to both Steinberg and Orioles PR boss Rick Vaughn, more than a couple dozen fans participated in the 'Parade of Brooks.' One of my grandsons has 'Brooks' for a middle name. His then-very-pregnant mom was in Cooperstown for Induction Weekend in 2016, and met the classy Hall of Famer. When her son was born a few weeks later, she and her husband decided that Brooks would be a fine middle name. He's 8 now. A Triple A Little Leaguer. Plays third base. ⋅ RIP Brookline-born Sol Yas, who died May 23 at the age of 84. A lifelong sports fan, longtime friend of the late Duke Snider, and onetime GM of the Cape League's Brewster White Caps, Sol was a member of the Dodgertown Hall of Fame and the Cape League's Hall of Fame. ⋅ Quiz answers: 1: Rajon Rondo, Larry Bird, Dennis Johnson, Bob Cousy; 2. Patrice Bergeron, David Krejci, Wayne Cashman. Dan Shaughnessy is a Globe columnist. He can be reached at
