With the non-tender deadline doming up on November 22, the White Sox have already let some of their arbitration-eligible players go: Three relief pitchers and the only infielder who could actually catch a baseball except .176 hitter Jacob Amaya, Nicky Lopez. The major decisions are yet to come.
The biggest is the easiest, tendering Garrett Crochet and waiting for all the trade offers to flow in. More difficult are the two first basemen/whatevers, Andrew Vaughn and Gavin Sheets.
With Vaughn expected to get $6.5 million in arbitration and Sheets about half that, no real baseball team would tender either, because they’d have better options available for less.