{"id":673523,"date":"2026-05-30T05:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T05:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/673523\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T05:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T05:09:08","slug":"white-sox-to-select-jacob-gonzalez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/673523\/","title":{"rendered":"White Sox To Select Jacob Gonzalez"},"content":{"rendered":"

The White Sox will select Jacob Gonzalez<\/a> onto the MLB roster, reports Jeff Passan of ESPN<\/a>. James Fegan of Sox Machine reported this evening<\/a> that Gonzalez would likely get the call if\u00a0Munetaka Murakami<\/a> went on the injured list. Manager Will Venable told reporters postgame that Murakami would likely be down for a couple weeks<\/a> with a right hamstring issue.<\/p>\n

Chicago will need to open a spot on the 40-man roster. Reliever\u00a0Jordan Leasure<\/a>, who just went on the 15-day injured list today with a flexor strain, is a candidate for a move to the 60-day IL. The righty said Friday that he\u2019ll be shut down entirely for four weeks after pitching through some discomfort for more than a month (via Fegan<\/a>). Leasure indicated there\u2019s a lot of inflammation but nothing structurally amiss with his elbow.<\/p>\n

Chicago selected Gonzalez with the #15 pick in the 2023 draft. The Ole Miss product posted below-average offensive numbers over his first couple minor league seasons. He has completely turned that around in 2026, slugging 18 home runs over 54 games with Triple-A Charlotte. That\u2019s already more than the 17 longballs he hit over his first two and a half seasons in the minors.<\/p>\n

Gonzalez, who\u2019ll make his MLB debut on his 24th birthday if he\u2019s in the lineup tomorrow, leads all Triple-A players and is third in affiliated ball in home runs. He\u2019s hitting .308\/.414\/.646 across 234 plate appearances, the second-best OPS among minor leaguers with 200+ trips. The power has come with a slight uptick in swing and miss, as he\u2019s fanning at a career-high 20.5% rate. That\u2019s obviously a tradeoff worth making for this kind of impact.<\/p>\n

A 90 mph average exit velocity and 42% hard contact rate don\u2019t quite align with Gonzalez\u2019s monster production. Those would be above-average marks at the MLB level but aren\u2019t top of the scale. Gonzalez had been viewed as more of an OBP-focused hitter entering the season, so even average power would be a major step forward.<\/p>\n

Gonzalez was drafted as a shortstop and has continued to play there more than any other position. He has experience at all four infield spots and will likely play alongside\u00a0Colson Montgomery<\/a> on the left side of the dirt.\u00a0Miguel Vargas<\/a> can move to first base while Murakami is out of action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The White Sox will select Jacob Gonzalez onto the MLB roster, reports Jeff Passan of ESPN. James Fegan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[184297,209338,99],"class_list":["post-673523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-jacob-gonzalez","tag-jordan-leasure","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673523","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=673523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}