{"id":675580,"date":"2026-05-16T22:46:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T22:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/675580\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T22:46:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T22:46:20","slug":"white-sox-acquire-junior-perez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/675580\/","title":{"rendered":"White Sox Acquire Junior Perez"},"content":{"rendered":"

The White Sox and Athletics have announced a trade, as outfielder Junior Perez<\/a> is on his way to Chicago in exchange for minor league southpaw Jackson Nove<\/a>.\u00a0 Perez was optioned to Triple-A Charlotte, and further roster move was required since the Sox already had an open spot on their 40-man roster.<\/p>\n

The A\u2019s designated Perez for assignment on Thursday, ending a stint on the 40-man roster that began back in November when the Athletics added Perez in advance of the Rule 5 Draft.\u00a0 That placement came on the heels of the .298\/.412\/.642 slash line that Perez posted over 182 Triple-A plate appearances in 2025.\u00a0 Over the whole season at the Double-A and Triple-A levels, Perez hit .231\/.348\/.473 with 26 home runs, and 27 steals out of 33 attempts.<\/p>\n

This seeming breakout got Perez ranked as the 20th-best prospect in the Athletics\u2019 farm system by both Baseball America and MLB Pipeline, yet his numbers fell back to earth this year.\u00a0 He was hitting just .210\/.273\/.384 over 154 PA for Triple-A Las Vegas when the Athletics sent him to DFA limbo.<\/p>\n

Perez has yet to make his big league debut, and he\u2019ll now look for that opportunity in the Windy City.\u00a0 While his bat remains a work in progress, Perez is known as an excellent defender who can handle all three outfield positions, and he has a good throwing arm and plus speed.\u00a0 Perez has the tools to stick around as at least a bench option in the Show, but he\u2019ll need to make some level of consistent and productive contact.<\/p>\n

Nove is a University of Kentucky product who signed with the White Sox as a free agent after going undrafted in 2025.\u00a0 The 23-year-old has some eye-popping numbers in his first pro season, as Nove has a 1.96 ERA, 59.5% grounder rate, and a 42.3% strikeout rate over 23 innings with A-level Kannapolis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The White Sox and Athletics have announced a trade, as outfielder Junior Perez is on his way to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,325709,591,85],"class_list":["post-675580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-junior-perez","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675580","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=675580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}