{"id":353889,"date":"2025-12-18T19:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T19:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/353889\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T19:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T19:33:08","slug":"rays-trade-tristan-peters-to-white-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/353889\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays Trade Tristan Peters To White Sox"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Rays\u00a0traded outfielder Tristan Peters<\/a> to the White Sox for cash or a player to be named later, according to announcements from both clubs. Tampa Bay had designated Peters for assignment on Tuesday when they finalized their two-year deal with Steven Matz<\/a>. Chicago had a couple openings on the 40-man roster and didn\u2019t need to make another move.<\/p>\n

Peters, 26, entered the professional ranks as a seventh-round pick by Milwaukee in 2021. The lefty-hitting outfielder was traded twice as a prospect \u2014 first to the Giants for reliever Trevor Rosenthal<\/a>, then to Tampa Bay for infielder\u00a0Brett Wisely<\/a>. Peters got his first major league call this past August. He spent a week on the active roster and got into four games, going 0-12 with seven strikeouts. He otherwise spent his second straight full season with Triple-A Durham, batting .266\/.355\/.429 with 15 home runs across 555 plate appearances.<\/p>\n

That was an improvement over Peters\u2019 first season at the top minor league level. He\u2019d hit .238\/.344\/.402 and connected on 12 homers in 2024. Peters has posted subpar exit velocities but shown solid strike zone awareness while making a decent amount of contact. He\u2019s capable of playing anywhere in the outfield and has a couple minor league options remaining. The Sox can keep him in Triple-A without exposing him to waivers so long as they continue carrying him on the 40-man roster.<\/p>\n

Barring a surprise trade of either player, the White Sox will open 2026 with\u00a0Andrew Benintendi<\/a> and\u00a0Luis Robert Jr.<\/a> as their respective left and center fielder. The out-of-options\u00a0Everson Pereira<\/a>, himself an offseason trade pickup from Tampa Bay, probably enters Spring Training as the favorite in right field. Chicago has journeyman speedster Derek Hill<\/a> penciled in for a bench role, while utilityman\u00a0Brooks Baldwin<\/a> could factor into either corner spot. It\u2019s one of the weakest outfield groups in MLB and would be especially barren if the Sox finally line up a Robert trade by next summer\u2019s deadline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rays\u00a0traded outfielder Tristan Peters to the White Sox for cash or a player to be named later,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82,153355],"class_list":{"0":"post-353889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tristan-peters"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}