{"id":348748,"date":"2025-12-14T19:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T19:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/348748\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T19:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T19:31:07","slug":"report-white-sox-have-shut-down-every-inquiry-about-ex-red-sox-catcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/348748\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: White Sox have \u2018shut down every inquiry\u2019 about ex-Red Sox catcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"T7JBY2EBIZF7ZEPWKPWNXRJXU4\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/redsox\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/redsox\/\">Red Sox<\/a> had interest in reuniting with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/redsox\/2023\/09\/top-pick-kyle-teel-emulates-red-sox-legend-refused-any-other-career.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/redsox\/2023\/09\/top-pick-kyle-teel-emulates-red-sox-legend-refused-any-other-career.html\">Kyle Teel<\/a>, but it appears the catcher won\u2019t be coming back to Boston, or leaving Chicago, for that matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"6TFHL3X3LBDPRO3RXI5ZOIJTWY\">The White Sox have \u201cshut down every inquiry\u201d about the 23-year-old, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6885854\/2025\/12\/12\/mets-stearns-cohen-alonso-schwarber-robert-offseason-mlb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6885854\/2025\/12\/12\/mets-stearns-cohen-alonso-schwarber-robert-offseason-mlb\/\">The Athletic\u2019s Ken Rosenthal reported<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"RNHY2QVKSVDP7CV2TCQJWKJQHM\">\u201cThey have no desire to trade an athletic, left-handed-hitting catcher who can control the strike zone and run,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6885854\/2025\/12\/12\/mets-stearns-cohen-alonso-schwarber-robert-offseason-mlb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6885854\/2025\/12\/12\/mets-stearns-cohen-alonso-schwarber-robert-offseason-mlb\/\">the MLB inside wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"JCGQBNYKP5HE3D6U2ZBH2PB3SE\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/redsox\/2025\/12\/what-were-hearing-about-red-sox-at-winter-meetings-on-ketel-marte-surprising-trade-talks-more.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/redsox\/2025\/12\/what-were-hearing-about-red-sox-at-winter-meetings-on-ketel-marte-surprising-trade-talks-more.html\">MassLive\u2019s Sean McAdam reported<\/a> that the Red Sox showed \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/redsox\/2025\/12\/what-were-hearing-about-red-sox-at-winter-meetings-on-ketel-marte-surprising-trade-talks-more.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/redsox\/2025\/12\/what-were-hearing-about-red-sox-at-winter-meetings-on-ketel-marte-surprising-trade-talks-more.html\">at least some interest<\/a>\u201d in bringing Teel back, but that re-acquiring him would be easier said than done. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"NH4VQGWLFZE3HGYTGFA3DGKXBM\">Teel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/redsox\/2024\/12\/who-is-red-sox-catcher-of-future-after-trading-kyle-teel-to-white-sox.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/redsox\/2024\/12\/who-is-red-sox-catcher-of-future-after-trading-kyle-teel-to-white-sox.html\">was part of the package<\/a> sent to Chicago for Garrett Crochet and was part of Boston\u2019s strong prospect pool that included Marcleo Mayer, Roman Anthony and Kristian Campbell. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"MEQIKWIKPFDTZBPWVIYLD63O54\">In 78 games for the White Sox in 2025, Teel hit .273 with eight home runs and 35 RBI with a .411 slugging percentage. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"IR42SRODKZB2TNY7IQVTYBAZIY\">The Red Sox could certainly benefit from adding depth to their catcher position. They have Carlos Narvaez and Connor Wong, though the latter struggled mightily last season, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/redsox\/2025\/11\/red-sox-make-connor-wong-decision-confident-that-hes-going-to-bounce-back-in-2026.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/redsox\/2025\/11\/red-sox-make-connor-wong-decision-confident-that-hes-going-to-bounce-back-in-2026.html\">Boston is confident he\u2019ll bounce back<\/a> in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Red Sox had interest in reuniting with Kyle Teel, but it appears the catcher won\u2019t be coming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[975,363,99,976],"class_list":{"0":"post-348748","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-975","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-wspix"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}