The White Sox select the first basic player Tim Elko On the list of large leagues, reports Vinnie Duber of the Chicago Sun-Totes. He will be online for his MLB debut tomorrow against the Marlins. The list of 40 men from Chicago is at full capacity, so they will have to make active list movements and 40 corresponding men.
Elko has never obtained a lot of fanfare prospects, but his production of minor leagues has certainly justified a promotion. The right-handed striker came out of a monster .348 / .431 / .670 Slash on 31 games with Triple-A Charlotte. He has already struck 10 circuits and six doubles in 130 plaques appearances. He is attached with Otto Kemp For the head of Home Run Triple-A. Among the strikers with more than 100 trips on the plate, only Carson McCusker has a higher ops.
The Elko of 6’3 ″ and 250 pounds was a productive power battle dating from its university days in Ole Miss. He nevertheless signed a tiny bonus of $ 35,000 as a draft choice of the 10th round in 2022. They are still present, although Elko has made slight improvements to his plaque discipline this season. He draws walks on what would be a better clip of 11.5%. This comes next to an alarming withdrawal rate of 28.5%.
It is a difficult profile to achieve, the one that launchers in the major league tend to exploit. However, the SOX scored the fourth more MLB points. They received a combined oblique bar .215 / .273 / .356 of their first basic players and designated strikers. There are few reasons not to give Elko the opportunity to try to continue to challenge expectations.
Andrew Vaughn worked as the first first goal player. The old third global choice posted intermediate numbers for the majority of his career. He entered the game this evening with a lamentable line. 186 / .223 / .293. A circuit in its first At-Bat will increase a little, but it is increasingly difficult to see Vaughn emerge as a legitimate commercial chip for GM Chris Getz and Company.
He plays on an arbitration salary of $ 5.85 million and looks much more like an DFA or an unknown candidate than someone who could bring the SOX a prospect of all respect. They did not have DH set, so Vaughn and Elko could coexist in the same programming, but it is just to wonder how much more Vaughn track will have as a everyday player.
