The White Sox have placed infielder Danny Mendick on the 10-day injured list with a torn ACL, the team announced. Infielder Lenyn Sosa will have his contract selected from Double-A as he joins the active roster. In other moves, Adam Engel was placed on the 10-day injured list with a strained right hamstring and Gavin Sheets has been recalled from Triple-A. Eloy Jimenez was also moved to the 60-day injured list.
Mendick was having a bit of a breakout season, at least through 31 games, slashing .289/.343/.443 over 106 plate appearances. That’s not really enough playing time to call it a true “breakout,” but Mendick was nevertheless filling an important void at shortstop while Tim Anderson was out. There was at least the possibility that Mendick would take over at second base now that Anderson returned. Josh Harrison and Leury Garcia have been splitting time at the keystone, but Harrison has produced just a 79 wRC+ while Garcia has produced an even more abysmal 25 wRC+.
To take over at second, the White Sox could turn to promoted prospect Lenyn Sosa from Double-A, per Daryl Van Schouwen of the Chicago Sun-Times. Sosa has played all over the infield in the minors for the White Sox. Sosa was Chicago’s 11th-ranked prospect, per Baseball America, ranked 21st by MLB.com, and 14th by Fangraphs. Sosa has seen his stock rise this season with his power as he has posted a .197 ISO on the year. He is not a big tools player, but he’s nonetheless posted an impressive .331/.384/.549 line in 289 plate appearances in Double-A this season. If he can continue to produce, Sosa could solve the White Sox issues at the keystone. That’s a lot to expect of a 22-year-old without Triple-A experience, however.
Sheets returns to the big league roster, stationed in right field for tonight’s ball game. In Triple-A, he appeared in nine games, slashing .270/.308/.541. That kind of production in the bigs would keep Sheets in the lineup. After all, right field has been a collective effort this season for the White Sox, with Sheets, Engel, AJ Pollock, Adam Haseley, and Andrew Vaughn all getting starts. Nobody has started more than four consecutive games in right field this season, with Vaughn reaching that mark just once.
Engel had started the past three games in right, but he now heads to the injured list. The 30-year-old has slashed .240/.297/.349 over 158 plate appearances, good for just an 86 wRC+. Engel has long been considered a solid defensive outfielder, which is where he adds his value. That’s been no less true this season when he’s posted 5 DRS across the three outfield spots.
That Tweet you linked to says Mendick in on the 10-day IL, not 60-day
Mendick is currently on the 10-day IL per the White Sox official site: mlb.com/whitesox/roster/transactions. That will likely change to a 60-day assignment once they need to open up another 40-man roster spot for a future promotion or trade.
This site is consistently lame when it comes to breaking White Sox news or its accuracy in reporting it. I don’t know how many times I have given them a heads-up with reliable links only to see news reported hours or even a day later. Meanwhile, less significant transactions from many other teams get top priority.
If you are getting all the news faster, why do you care when the site gets it up?
Please change name to aboveaveragecommenter
Maybe because MLBTrade Rumors has been my favorite site over the past decade, one I pay to support as an avid fan of MLB, the White Sox and Cubs. Trying to give them a heads-up on breaking news from sources that should also be known to them is puzzling. especially when I never have to do it with Cubs news. Perhaps site creator, owner and Cubs fan Tim Dierkes would like to chime in with a response?
Aaron, please ignore the less intelligent fans who lack your erudition. Obviously, they lack manners as well as knowledge.
Diaper needs changing.
There’s nothing team-specific going on, not sure what you’re thinking there.
I’d guess that the things you think we’re late on generally aren’t in a class that we consider urgent.
Cry baby, paranoid Sox fans.
“Paranoid” enough to be a paying subscriber. What’s your excuse?
Self righteous much?
At least he pays them when he “cries” about stuff. Don’t see you paying them to be a troll.
To be fair, I have no income source as a 17 year old but if I did I would pay. (I hear the go ask your mommy for lunch jokes coming)
I really don’t think “paranoid” was the key part of his statement.
How does paranoid come out of his comments? Clown response
Here’s a lollipop. Go pack to playing Fortnite on mommy’s Switch.
What?
Aaron you probably saw that Vaughn’s hurt too which explains his excessively slow running last few games.
No he just slow
@WhiteSox1961
Josh Harrison exited tonight’s games versus the Orioles after getting hit on the elbow with a pitch. The White Sox just can’t catch a break aside from bones and other body parts this season. If Harrison goes on the IL Yolbert Sanchez figures to be the next man up for the ChiSox.
You are such a super duper helper thank you Aaron! Mommy has a cookie for you
Aaron might just be the Karen of commentators. Not wrong. But…
White Sox need a mulligan
…actually Rsox……
They could use some position players that can play defense, run the bases properly, and do some situational hitting.
Unfortunately, under Kenny Williams all FO people have gotten the memo starting with: “When evaluating players for potential acquisition, Baseball IQ is not a pre-requisite”.
So true Re the IQ factor
@Samuel
Kenny and Hahn built this team to mash. Unfortunately contrary to todays popular belief Baseball is more than just Home Runs.
You are correct they need a complete overhaul to their approach starting with the front office and working it’s way down to the roster
White Sox need a Milligan.
Randy was more of a First Base/DH type, which they have plenty of
What a Men Dick move danny
This would be hilarious if you were posting on a boy’s middle school social media site.
I work in middle schools. Those kids aren’t even that lame.
Hideki- roasted. Good job, board!
Go watch Stranger things.
Mendick is a big loss – super steady defensive presence on a team that is NOT steady on the infield.
Or anywhere else, for that matter.
The team is fundamentally horrible. Watched a few games. Bad managerial decisions. Upper and field. Terrible attention to cut offs. On the bases. Ewe. Few great and good players top of lineup for sure . Yes injuries a plenty. Depth is horrible though on this team.
You could have posted this under every White Sox article since they fired Ozzie.
Fascinating how they mixed up the lineup in the midst of a 9-2 sleeper. Never seen that before. Lot dictated by injury, but also a thought about experimenting. Sevy at 1b, Vaughn at 2b. Wish more teams tried that midgame.
Shame for Mendick…always enjoyable to watch older marginal prospects come up and have some success at the MLB level. The Sosa move is a head scratcher as there are others at the AAA level that have multi-position ability and are playing well. I sense this might be a showcase for Sosa for trade deadline time.
Only 2 at AAA and 1, Gonzalez, is on IL right now. Sanchez had a hot start, but has been slumping. Sosa is the better prospect. He should get a chance to be the everyday 2B.
Yolbert Sanchez has been a bit up and down over the past couple of weeks after his torrid showing at AA and his promotion to AAA on April 26th. That said, he is still leading the Knights in BA and also had some experience playing alongside SS Tim Anderson as the latter was rehabbing from his recent injury.
Sanchez has tools similar to former White Sox 2B Nick Madrigal with a bit more defensive versatility while also playing SS and 3B in the minors. Madrigal has more elite contact ability but Sanchez has shown better plate patience and an ability to draw walks. Sosa has far better power potential than either, something he has demonstrated in 2022 while also cutting down significantly on his strikeouts. Hopefully that will continue with his jump from AA to MLB.
He’s like Madrigal without the elite skill that makes Madrigal at all interesting
Madrigal’s elite contact and complete lack of power seem to give him an extreme ceiling and floor, while Sanchez seems like a utility infielder best/worst case scenario. I’d prefer the potential of Sosa
Madrigal’s ceiling IS his floor. Not many MLBers you can say that about.
He’s like Madrigal except he doesn’t run into outs, make poor decisions in the field, or fail to pull the ball out of the infield.
Madrigal ceiling is maybe he one day rivals Gordo Beckham as a self depreciating media guy
Thank you Johnny Superscout.
Re-reading your analysis is funnier the second time
Hmm, a Sox minor league prospect named Sosa all of a sudden starting to hit for more power……I’m a little skeptical.
Your scepticism should be lessened considering the frequent testing done on minor league players compared to MLB ones, at least up until recently before stricter enforcement was agreed upon between the owners and the MLBPA.
It was a joke.
A joke that makes little sense since the noted Sosa who was a White Sox in his early years had zero connection to steroids at that time. His hat size increased considerably after he switched addresses in Chicago.
Additionally, Sammy wasn’t a White Sox prospect. He was originally as a Ranger until the ChiSox acquired him in July of 1989.
You must be fun at parties lol do people think how pathetic and miserable they sound before they post. Lighten up dude
Dude, you take stuff way too seriously. Like the previous guy said, you must be fun at parties.
Two guys beat me to the You Must Be Fun at Parties. Stellar work, message board.
Thank God you are here, super fun guy. I have never seen someone with such thin skin cry about everything on here. And you think your mediocre team somehow illicit conspiracies? What a pathetic martyr.
That squad must lead the league in poor communication/play resulting in collisions. White Sox organizational depth is pathetic.
The White Sox prospect depth is mostly at the lower minor league levels due to the graduation of their top prospects to the big leagues over the past few years, This is in combination with the team finally prioritizing more high school players over college ones in recent drafts. Trades of other noted prospects to acquire veterans during their window of contention have also factored in. The plethora of injuries they have received to their active roster over the past couple of seasons hasn’t helped either.
All that said, the White Sox do seem to have some decent minor league options to cover their hole at 2B in AAA Cuban prospect Yolbert Sanchez and today’s promotion of Lenyn Sosa. Sosa may have only been rated in the mid-tier of White Sox prospects heading into the 2022 season but that would surely have changed with his impressive showing at AA Birmingham thus far. The same could probably be said for Sanchez who was has been excellent at both AA and AAA this season.
Aaron, ignore them. I’ve always read your posts and enjoy what you have to say in-depth. I’m not a CWS fan but I do enjoy reading knowledgeable baseball fans who know their team inside and out, like you do. I was asking a buddy of mine if they would trade for Bryan Reynolds and give up Sheets as a headliner? What do you think?
Sox passed on Reynolds and Adam Frazier last year. They won’t change their ways now. Had they done so last year they would be in a better place . Trade TA, Moncada, and Jimenez to Seattle for JP Crawford, France, and Frazier and you have more games suited up and played. JP played 160 games at SS last year, that’s durable. You can’t hit .300 if you don’t suit up .
A guy hitting .280 and playing 160 games gives you at least one hit per game.
@ raz427
The White Sox would do that in a heartbeat. It would take a lot more than Gavin Sheets as a headliner to pry switch-hitting OF Bryan Reynolds and his 3 additional years of arbitration control away from the Pirates.
the 62 mets are probably the all time leader, if the following story is legit (and i think it is):
shortstop couldn’t speak english, 2nd baseman couldn’t speak spanish, so on every pop fly, they’d both call for it and collide.
finally, the 2nd baseman asks one of the bilingual guys “how do you say i got it in spanish?”
guy told him.
2nd baseman went up to shortstop, said the phrase (yo la tengo, i believe), player responded back in kind, 2nd baseman assumed everything is okay.
so, popup happens, both go toward it. 2nd baseman says “yo la tengo”, shortstop backs off… and the centerfielder comes in, crashes into the second basemen, because he too doesn’t speak a lick of spanish.
your post just reminded me of that story.
Sucks to see a guy fight so long to live his dream then get cut down by a significant injury like this.
Rehab will be a long haul.
Hopefully I’ll see him next Spring in Glendale. For those who haven’t gone, Camelback Ranch is an absolute gem. The back fields are pretty much baseball heaven. I highly recommend it.
Eloy to 60-day just slyly thrown in there. No update on Robert. This year has been an absolute s***show.
Article could have used some explanation about Jimenez.
I read yesterday that Jimenez was back in the AAA lineup. So I was like “what the hell, did he get hurt again.” But move to 60 day is procedural, backdated to April.
Hopefully the 10 days are enough for him to heal up
its just a flesh wound!
Is Lenyn Sosa related to that white guy, Sammy Sosa?
Ugh. Terrible break for Mendick. Yet another bad break as well in a myriad of them for the White Sox.
What is it that Cub fans say, “Something something next year”?
Does this team employ -any- strength and conditioning coaches, or do they just wing it? Seems more than a fair share of injuries these guys are sustaining are oblique strains/hammies.. .which seems to telegraph: “out of shape, more or less”.
Huge loss with Mendick, he had zero errors and was a steady bat. Sosa from AA is a good move, in a number of cases he faced better pitchers there who are on their way up rather than down at AAA and serve as last chance backups for the big club. AAA at some positions is for emergency depth reasons. If Sosa can field his positions then he looks worth looking at. Many have made the jump successfully. Sox no doubt will be trading people at the break. The injuries have extended the rebuild process, definitely not where Sox should be. TLR needs durable players. TA comes back from DL and he gets a day off the other day. He’s only played 20 some games this year, only 120 last year.. Trade him for a bunch of prospects, you can’t bat .300 if you aren’t suited up. Moncada, Jimenez too, send Hahn and KW somewhere if you can or give them a minor league job.
This is a good call up by ChiSox. Sosa is not just a sub, he should be their starting SS. AA has another Corner OF they should bring up too but
Starting SS? Over TA? Ummm, no. Sox could try to transition Sosa to starting 2B. Harrison’s been much better of late, but still a rough year for him and Leury has been flat awful.
Ugh, Mendick getting an ACL injury is just bad luck, but getting fed up with the absence of coaching teaching fly ball priority as the Sox have had way too many collisions in the OF over the past few years.. Also, surprise surprise another Hamstring Injury… Time to DFA the Sox Health and conditioning dept.
Agreed, but you have to get rid of the head cases who don’t want to stretch, do drills, and won’t cause media distractions to send the message. One player gets hurt because he carries too much baggage and it affects the team. Get rid of that then start a new regimen.
Yeah, I agree, but there are some ummm.. ‘commenters’ out there that claim such talk is being a ‘5th grade gym coach’ instead of, yknow, someone who feels that for the money these guys get paid they should be competitive and have the pride to keep themselves in shape instead of just phoning it in. However, this many injuries tells me its also a systemic issue, and the coaching staff needs to be looked as well. LaRussa was a good manager, key word ‘was’. I mean the Sox bats just got silenced by a BP pitching staff in the Orioles. It would be nice to have a manager that looks like he is interested in the game and the team (I mean at least Renteria looked like he was interested), not just to go out and wave his little hat at the fans for past.accomplishments. This team is a .500 club at best (even when healthy), and even in this division, it appears that is not good enough, and-quite frankly, if you barely make it into the playoffs only to get swept out by a team light years better than you, whats the point? I mean they get a little flag to show they won the division, but again if you cannot stand up to the known playoff contender teams, what good it is really, other than just letting your fans down harder?
If you have to switch managers, then get Joe Maddon. However no manager can change the poor behavior off the field and out of the park by one of it’s perceived stars. If true Sox have a media relations injury that will disrupt the team. totalprosports.com/2022/06/16/2nd-woman-comes-forw… . Trade them to get some character and work ethics to lead. Forget the hype, “Change the game by changing their team. Get something for them now while they have some limited value.
Meh, like what MLB players don’t have mistresses all over the country (and kids for that matter)? It would be different if he was abusing them, which does not sound like the case. If these are really confirmed, and not people looking for a buck, then a philandering SS is the least of this teams issues. Now if it affects his performance, sure… the Sox need to get on top of that and ensure he his ducks in a row, but this is not like what other MLB players have been accused of lately that is far more egregious.
As for Maddon, the guy has two of the best players in the league on his club and could not get it to work (though that may be more of an indictment of you need a whole team, and not just two of the best players in the game). So I’m not really sold on him either.
He has situations with two not just one. He’s only played 40 some games this year and he got a day off today. Sounds like it is affecting him, he’s not playing everyday.
What a disappointment the Sox have been this year, almost unwatchable, blame it on Tony, this team has no excitement
It’s not Tony, the players he had last year have gotten lazy. They rather sit than prepare, TLR can’t do that for them.