{"id":794261,"date":"2026-07-11T04:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T04:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/794261\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T04:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T04:15:10","slug":"pirates-acquire-gonzalez-eisert-from-white-sox-for-pick-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/794261\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates acquire Gonzalez, Eisert from White Sox for pick, Woods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh is acquiring infielder Jacob Gonzalez and reliever Brandon Eisert from Chicago in exchange for the 34th-overall pick in the draft and reliever Jaden Woods, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/whitesox\/status\/2075777400244171161?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">the teams announced Friday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez, 24, was a first-round pick of the White Sox in 2023 and made his MLB debut earlier this season. The left-handed hitter was optioned back to triple-A earlier Friday to make room for Munetaka Murakami&#8217;s return.<\/p>\n<p>He played in 30 games during his first taste of the majors, slashing .244\/.323\/.360 with two homers and 17 RBIs.<\/p>\n<p>Eisert, meanwhile, owns a 5.93 ERA and 32 strikeouts in 27.1 innings on the season.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old lefty broke into the big leagues with the Toronto Blue Jays in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>In return, the White Sox add a competitive balance pick from Pittsburgh \u2014 the only draft picks that can be traded under MLB&#8217;s current CBA \u2014 and Woods.<\/p>\n<p>Woods has spent the entire season in the minors, posting a 4.84 ERA over 35.1 combined innings between double- and triple-A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh is acquiring infielder Jacob Gonzalez and reliever Brandon Eisert from Chicago in exchange for the 34th-overall pick&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":794262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-794261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794261","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=794261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}