{"id":39749,"date":"2025-08-02T10:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T10:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/39749\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T10:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T10:25:08","slug":"white-sox-select-corey-julks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/39749\/","title":{"rendered":"White Sox Select Corey Julks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The White Sox announced a few moves before tonight\u2019s series opener with the Angels. They selected outfielder\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/j\/julksco01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-01_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Corey Julks<\/a> onto the roster and activated\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=smithsh02,smith-019sha&amp;search=Shane+Smith&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-01_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Shane Smith<\/a> from the 15-day injured list. Chicago optioned outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/roberwi02.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-01_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Will Robertson<\/a> to Triple-A Charlotte. They already had an opening on the active roster for a pitcher after <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2025\/07\/rays-to-acquire-adrian-houser.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">trading<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/h\/housead01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-01_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Adrian Houser<\/a> to Tampa Bay yesterday. Smith will take the ball tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Robertson had just been recalled on Wednesday after the Sox <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2025\/07\/white-sox-trade-austin-slater-yankees.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">traded<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/slateau01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-01_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Austin Slater<\/a> to the Yankees. That subtracted a right-handed bat from their outfield. They\u2019ll reset that balance by bringing up the righty-hitting Julks in place of Robertson, a lefty bat. Julks is a 29-year-old who made 93 appearances with the Astros as a rookie two seasons ago. Chicago acquired him last May in a minor trade. He made 66 appearances and hit .214\/.275\/.306 with three home runs.<\/p>\n<p>That unsurprisingly was not enough for Julks to hold his roster spot all winter. He went unclaimed on waivers and remained with the organization in a non-roster capacity. Julks hit his way back to the big leagues with an impressive .295\/.373\/.470 slash line in Charlotte. He has connected on 10 home runs and stolen 13 bags while taking walks at a solid 10.3% clip. Julks can\u2019t really play center field, but he can take some at-bats against lefty pitching form the left-handed hitting corner outfield duo of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/beninan01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-01_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Andrew Benintendi<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/t\/tauchmi01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-01_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mike Tauchman<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The White Sox announced a few moves before tonight\u2019s series opener with the Angels. They selected outfielder\u00a0Corey Julks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,35280,591,35281,85],"class_list":["post-39749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-corey-julks","tag-mlb","tag-shane-smith","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}