"While they improved on their historically bad 2024 season this past year, the 2025 White Sox were still among the league's bottom-feeders with little end in sight to the rebuild that GM is undertaking. The problem for Chicago is that they're running out of notable pieces to dangle in trades if they hope to accelerate that rebuild. Andrew Benintendi has the capacity to be a decent corner bat, but he's overpaid and could be difficult to move without eating almost all of his salary."
"For all of the team's faults, Chicago does have one area of legitimate depth on its roster: young catching talent. Edgar Quero and both turned in solid rookie seasons after entering the 2025 season as consensus top-100 prospects in the sport, and both players are controlled through the end of the 2031 season. Six full seasons of team control on a player who has already proved capable of hitting big league pitching from the toughest defensive position on the diamond is arguably one of the most attractive tradable assets in the entire game."
"There's also the current market conditions to consider. The free agent market is headlined by J.T. Realmuto but he's expected to return to the Phillies. Even if he doesn't, he's about to turn 35 and some clubs would certainly prefer to find a younger franchise catcher like those currently on the White Sox. Apart from Realmuto, guys like Victor Caratini and Danny Jansen are the top guys available. Ryan Jeffers might be on the trade block but it's not entirely confirmed that the Twins are going to continue the selloff they began at the deadline."
Chicago improved from a historically bad 2024 but remained a bottom-tier team in 2025 while executing a prolonged rebuild. The roster lacks movable, high-value veterans, as Andrew Benintendi is overpaid and hard to trade and Luis Robert Jr. has not produced the expected return. The organization has notable depth at catcher, with Edgar Quero and another young backstop delivering solid rookie seasons and being controlled through 2031, offering six seasons of team control. A thin free-agent catcher market increases the value of controllable young catchers and makes trading them a plausible route to accelerate the rebuild.
Read at MLB Trade Rumors
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]