The White Sox announced today that right-handers Chris Beck and Tyler Danish have cleared waivers and been assigned outright to Triple-A Charlotte, thus removing them from the 40-man roster. The moves will help pave the way for Chicago’s newest slate of 40-man roster additions, which includes minor league outfielders Eloy Jimenez, Luis Alexander Basabe and Micker Adolfo; minor league lefty Ian Clarkin; and minor league first baseman Casey Gillaspie, per the team’s announcement.
Beck, 27, soaked up 64 2/3 innings out of the White Sox’ bullpen in 2017 but struggled to a 6.40 ERA with an unsightly 42-to-34 K/BB ratio along the way. The 2012 second-rounder averaged nearly 95 mph on his heater in the process but proved extremely susceptible to home runs (2.23 HR/9). Beck does have a more palatable 3.72 ERA in 162 frames at the Triple-A level, though he’s averaged just 6.9 K/9 there in spite of his solid velocity.
Danish, meanwhile, has just 6 2/3 minor league innings under his belt — all coming in the past two seasons. Also a former second-round pick (2013), the 23-year-old was considered to be one of the Sox’ most promising minor league arms in the low minors before stalling in the upper levels. Danish logged a 5.47 ERA with just 4.6 K/9 against 3.1 BB/9 in Triple-A this past season and posted ERA marks in the mid- to upper-4.00s at Double-A in Triple-A from 2015-16.
With the exception of Adolfo, each of the new 40-man additions was acquired by the White Sox within the past 12 months on the trade market. Jimenez (acquired in the Jose Quintana swap) is considered among the top five to 10 prospects in all of baseball. Adolfo, Basabe (Chris Sale trade), Clarkin (Todd Frazier/David Robertson/Tommy Kahnle trade) and Gillaspie (Dan Jennings trade) are not quite as highly regarded but are all among Chicago’s top 30 overall prospects, per MLB.com.
Will a team draft Adolfo and keep him on their roster? He hasn’t played beyond low A ball would be surprised to see him claimed
Adolfo got added to the roster so he can’t get drafted
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You clearly didn’t read the article he got put on the 40 man
Those two were dog meat. Let’s hope the talent level will get better.
Don’t understand protecting Basabe and Clarkin and not protecting Guerrero and Peter.
There was more dead weight they could have dropped.
Hope they don’t regret it.
I was really hoping that Guerrero was going to be added to the roster, lefties are currently a premium for us. I understand not adding peter as our infield already has a logjam of players we are making decisions on but hopefully he isn’t drafted and his breakout continues next year.
i’d take guerrero, clark, and peter over covey, jacob may, and hanson/willy garcia
but i don’t work for the sox so w/e
Jake Peter was excellent in his 40+ games at the AAA level last year. I definitely expected him to be added to the 40 man.
Casey Gillaspie the brother of Connor? Connor argueably the best hitter on Sox a few years back. Ouch such dreadful offenses
He did put up a 115 OPS+.
But Abreu, Eaton and Dunn were still better that year.
Yes, Conor and Casey are brothers. Each were also former #1 June Draft picks out of Wichita State University.
Each are different type players. Conor bats left-handed and throws right-handed. Casey is a switch-hitter and a southpaw. Conor was a 3B in college while Casey played 1B. Casey will be 25 in January and is about 5-1/2 years younger than Conor. Casey is also a bigger dude at 6-4, 240lb and profiles as a better power hitter than his 6-1, 195lb older brother.
As I post with a little more than one hour until the 7 pm deadline this leaves the following White Sox prospects eligible for the Rule 5 Draft: LHP Jordan Guerrero (#21), RHP Luis Martinez (#29) and INF Jake Peter (recently #30 until last Thursday’s acquisition of RHP Thyago Vieira). The organization still has one spot open on their 40-man roster in which to add another player, be it one of their own or a prospect cut loose from another club as the deadline looms.