The White Sox announced Friday that they’ve signed free agent outfielder Robbie Grossman to a minor league deal. He’ll be invited to the remainder of big league camp.
Grossman, 34, spent the 2023 season with the World Series champion Rangers but will head into the 2024 season with a rebuilding ChiSox club. He hit .238/.340/.394 with Texas last season and has been an average or better hitter in six of the past eight seasons. Grossman has tallied 3552 plate appearances in that span and delivered a composite .245/.350/.387 batting line during that time. The switch-hitter is a career .282/.381/.426 slash against left-handed pitching (126 wRC+). He’s been below-average, albeit not egregiously so, against right-handed pitching.
Grossman has played a bit of center field in his career, but the vast majority of that experience came back in 2013. He’s primarily a corner outfielder and designated hitter, with the bulk of his outfield work coming in left field. He played 553 innings on the grass for Texas last season but turned in well below-average defensive marks.
The White Sox figure to enter the season with left-handed-hitting Dominic Fletcher as their primary right fielder and lefty-swinging Andrew Benintendi in left. Grossman’s excellence from the right side of the plate would make him a viable platoon partner for either player. They currently have Kevin Pillar in camp as a fellow non-roster veteran who could offer a righty complement to those lefty-hitting corner outfielders, but Pillar has an out clause in his minor league contract today, which could come into play.
Better than Jurickson Profar. Preller could have gotten him.
He’s now the White Sox 2nd best outfielder.
Not worth even commenting on but since I saw I wasn’t 1st…. No comment still. MEH
OBP machine against LHP, but I don’t trust Grifol with any platoon situations or bullpen management.
World Series Parade is back on!
Gavin Sheets should never be on a Major League roster.
So says you as the next great talent evaluator. But anybody can visit every roster in MLB & find 1-3 players on roster that thryvthink don’t belong in MLB. I just call wannabe GM’s
Prelude to a Luis Robert Jr trade.
Getz has ruled that out.
I honestly hope so, but I doubt it. If they do trade him, though, they need to go for elite quality, rather than a high number of prospects outside a team’s top 5.
Right.
6 days till opening. Buckle up. Dont stop now boys.
Just an all around solid player. Nothing splashy, but he bounced back pretty well last year from a bad 2022 season.
I apologize to the forum. I picked this guy to win the 2022 mvp
If Fletcher doesn’t come out of the gates hitting, he may be a defensive replacement late in games.
That wouldn’t be the worst scenario. Has 6 years of club control and has always been a defensive wizard.
To think Pham, Duvall and Taylor were not interesting enough for Getz…
That’s gross. Man.