The White Sox signed right-hander Jordan Holloway to a minor league contract, according to an announcement from their Triple-A affiliate. He’ll join their top farm club in Charlotte.
Holloway had just opted out of a minor league pact with the Cubs over the weekend. He lands with their crosstown rivals in hopes of getting an MLB look for the first time this season. The right-hander had signed a non-roster pact with the Cubs in January but only made eight appearances for their Triple-A team. He allowed 12 runs in seven innings, striking out 15 but walking nine and allowing 10 hits.
That unsurprisingly didn’t get Holloway a look at Wrigley Field. He has reached the majors in each of the previous three seasons, though, with all of that experience coming for the Marlins. The 6’6″ hurler sandwiched single outings in 2020 and ’22 around a career-high 36 MLB frames two years ago. He posted an even 4.00 ERA with a serviceable 22.6% strikeout rate but a massive 16.5% walk percentage over that stretch.
Now 27, Holloway has logged parts of nine seasons in the minor leagues. He has a 4.87 ERA in 373 2/3 minor league frames. He has shown some bat-missing ability and has averaged around 95 MPH on his fastball during his MLB looks, but he’s generally struggled to throw strikes throughout his pro career.
Trash heap lovin Rick at it again
At least they are signing people with somewhat of a track record.
Hahn is just delusional, or just trying to cover his @$$ at this point. This team is what it is, a 13 game under .500 team, it was that way after April, May, and June. When they need to pitch well they do not, when they hit to hit well they forget how to drive a run in from third with less than two outs (I mean HOW many times have they left the bases loaded and scored nothing, and gotten schooled by guys with ERA’s well above 5?!), and when they need to play solid defense they forget how to catch hold and throw a baseball (I thought their new bottom dollar manager was supposed to fix this, by the way). The only thing that is consistent on this club is its ‘potential’ and how players keep failing to live up to it. Its on the players, the ‘coaching’ staff, and the org itself. Sell off anyone not named Robert, Cease, or Kopech and hope they can get some average/above average players to at LEAST play the game the correct way, succeed in situational hitting, make the plays on Defense, and pitch above average… anything to change and at LEAST send a message to the other dead sticks on the roster that they actually have to perform well and not just show up for their checks. Sorry, never mind.. Rick is still expecting this team to go on a winning streak and ‘live up to their potential’ (as if the first three months of the season was just a dress rehearsal).. If the Sox fail to make any substantive moves and then finish the season as the failures they are now, I guess we can expect the same expectation for ‘reaching their potential’ next season as well.
If you’re gonna keep those three you might as well keep Vaughn too.
Do not let Rick Hahn and Kenny Williams be involved with anything that has to do with adjusting the roster. They have FAILED over and over. Its a broken system and beyond repair until they are gone or Reinsdorf sells the team
Sox fans want to trade everybody away and try again. The problem is it’s the same people evaluating the prospects coming back in trades and the same people evaluating the draft class and the same people in player development that have done nothing. What an absolute waste of an organization.
Kind of a layered argument here. I don’t argue Hahn/Williams have failed repeatedly at improving and adding to the core, but it’s very hard to say they didn’t identify talent. Moncada, Anderson, Eloy Robert are all insanely talented, and have shown glimpses of that…WHEN HEALTHY. Those 4 have played something like 30 games together total in 3 years.
I am about 60-40 blow it up and start with Vaughn, Cease, Kopech, Robert and Eloy. Moncada can’t stay on the field for more than a week, and Anderson’s biggest, and truly only strength (his contact) has vanished this season. Match that with his subpar defense, and it’s not exactly a player you want to pay top dollar for.
This will never happen, but Ohtani would do wonders for this fan base here, you would have a solid 1-2-3 in the rotation, along with a left handed power RF this org has needed for almost 15 years.
Pitch him against my Cubs heh
Let the bullpen sell off begin…
So this is a true story and actual player sighting like all my other past experiences.Not only have I encountered many sport’s celebrities but some big name Hollywood entertainers as well. So I was attending church services at St. Bede the venerable a few weeks back. For those non Chicago bloggers the church is close to midway . So when it came time to offer the sign of peace to fellow members of the church, Jordan turned around and shook my hand. I had no clue who he was at first. So after mass I went down for the pancake breakfast and there he was again. So he sat down next to me and we talked baseball. He opened up about who he was and offered me a few links if his sausages. Who would have thought I would encounter a major league player while enjoying some flapjacks. He knew I was a Sox fan by the way as I was wearing my 1977 Henry Cruz jersey I bought at the Alsip flee market . You heard it head first friends !