{"id":775820,"date":"2026-07-03T05:23:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T05:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/775820\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T05:23:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T05:23:20","slug":"dustin-harris-opts-out-of-white-sox-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/775820\/","title":{"rendered":"Dustin Harris Opts Out Of White Sox Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/h\/harridu01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-02_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dustin Harris<\/a> opted out of a minor league deal with the White Sox, reports <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ByRobertMurray\/status\/2072816820625842685?\" rel=\"nofollow\">Robert Murray of FanSided<\/a>. He\u2019s a free agent because Chicago granted him his release in lieu of adding him to the MLB roster.<\/p>\n<p>Harris has spent the past couple months at Triple-A Charlotte after signing a minor league deal in May. It was his second stint in the Chicago organization. Harris signed an offseason non-roster contract with the Sox and was called up in early April. They lost him on waivers to the Astros but brought him back when Houston dropped him a few weeks later.<\/p>\n<p>The lefty-hitting outfielder has had a strong year in Triple-A, batting .312\/.396\/.490 with six homers across 183 plate appearances. Harris has an impressive .281\/.370\/.429 showing in nearly 1500 trips to the dish over four seasons at the top minor league level. He has only gotten sporadic looks against MLB pitching, hitting .225 with a couple home runs in 38 games. Harris had spent the first couple seasons with the Rangers before logging a combined 17 games between Chicago and Houston this year.<\/p>\n<p>Harris is out of minor league options, a big reason he was pushed off the 40-man roster in both Chicago and Houston. The 26-year-old (27 next week) has always had a solid reputation for his pure hitting ability, but he\u2019s stretched in center field and doesn\u2019t have the plus power typically associated with a corner. He should quickly find another minor league opportunity given his Triple-A numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dustin Harris opted out of a minor league deal with the White Sox, reports Robert Murray of FanSided.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":775821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,367969,591,85],"class_list":["post-775820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-dustin-harris","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775820","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=775820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}