April 20: The White Sox announced today that they’ve assigned Cousin outright to Double-A Birmingham. Cousin cannot reject the assignment as he has neither been outrighted previously in his career nor the requisite service time to do so. As such, he’ll remain with the White Sox going forward as a non-roster depth option for the club as he continues working to establish himself in stateside baseball.
April 16: The White Sox announced that they have selected the contract of right-hander Jonathan Cannon, a move that was reported yesterday. In corresponding moves, they optioned left-hander Jared Shuster to Triple-A Charlotte and designated right-hander Josimar Cousin for assignment.
Cousin, now 26, is from Cuba and played six seasons in that country’s Serie Nacional de Béisbol. He appeared in 88 games in that league, 68 starts, with a 4.80 earned run average. He struck out 15% of batters faced while walking 9.3%. The Sox signed him to a minor league deal in May, per reporter Francys Romero, with a $100K bonus.
He then tossed 55 innings in the minors last year, going from the Complex League to High-A and Double-A. He had a combined 5.56 ERA in that time as well as a 19.6% strikeout rate and 6.3% walk rate.
The Sox added him to their 40-man roster in mid-December, though the timing was unusual as it had nothing to do with minor league free agency or the Rule 5 cutoff. Speculatively speaking, it’s possible that Cousin had some kind of opt-out in his contract or maybe an overseas opportunity that the Sox wanted to prevent him from pursuing.
Cousin was optioned to Double-A Birmingham but hasn’t pitched yet this year. According to his transactions tracker at MiLB.com, he was on the minor league injured list from April 5 to April 12. The Sox will now have one week to trade him or pass him through waivers.
(Rodney Dangerfield voice) Tough crowd, tough crowd. First they designated Cousin, then they went after Uncle and Aunt.
I don’t get it
I’m not surprised.
Hey dumpster, I have a question. Has a MLB team, in a 3 game series, ever NOT scored a run? And how many times might this happen to your boys, this year?
They just scored btw. This comment didn’t age well lol.
Trade Roberts for meadows and jung
No one wants P Meadows, he couldn’t hit water if he fell out of a boat
LMAO at writing off a guy after 33 ABs in a season. He entered this year as a fringe top 100 guy.
He’s never been that great of a hitter in the minors, .729 career OPS, I just think he’s going to end up as a quad-A type
Ah yes. Redsox 62 knows more than evaluators
Su cousin es mi cousin
The Pale Hosers are dumping Cousin, and crying “Uncle”.
Who’s your daddy
Shuster was one their best bullpen arms so far. Seems natural that he would be the option.
thought this was kendrick lamar
Cannon after Nastriani. Love it!
Any relation to My Cousin Vinny?
What led to Josimar Cousin’s sudden designation for assignment after being added to the 40-man roster just a few months ago?
I thought Eloy was activated but I didn’t see it announced on here. Maybe that’s why?
Eloy was activated the same day (and noted under the same article) as Nastriani’s promotion. It was the other day. It was easy to miss as it was casually mentioned in the middle of the sentence discussing Nastriani’s promotion.
Designate anyone with earrings.
Chris you were right to go out and get better defensive players but how about players who can hit. We can’t win many games with zero runs.
This team might challenge the 1962 Mets 40-120 Record. It’s going to be a long season for sure.
Remember that the A’s started 10-45 and still failed to reach 120 lose mark. The only reason why Sox started 3-17 is Robert and Yo-yo injured.
Mendick just hit his eighth Home Run.why is he not up tomorrow?
Danny Mendick wasn’t bad for them in 2022. I wouldn’t mind if they send Sosa down. Anyone doing well offensively in AAA the White Sox should call the scrups. Grossman is one of them.
What is the projected date of Gridol’s firing?
Midnight.