In advance of the deadline to tender contracts for the 2025 season, arbitration-eligible first baseman Gavin Sheets and reliever Enyel De Los Santos were cut loose by the White Sox.
Sheets, drafted in the second round in 2017 and having spent eight years with the White Sox organization, could be seen as a bit of a surprise cut given his relative effectiveness in 2024 and measly $2.6 million contract estimate for 2025.
“Relative effectiveness” is doing quite a bit of work in that sentence, of course, as we’re talking about a -1.0 WAR player in 2024 and -2.