The White Sox announced on Wednesday that they had reached deals with two of their three arbitration-eligible players, giving Adam Engel a $650,000 raise on last year’s $1.35 million salary and bumping Reynaldo López to $2.6 million, up from $2.1 million in 2021.
With much of the team’s young core signed to exploitative, below-market extensions that negate the need for negotiation — Tim Anderson, Eloy Jiménez, Yoán Moncada, and Aaron Bummer would otherwise be arbitration-eligible — the team entered the 2022 offseason with outstanding contract situations for just three players: Engel, López, and staff anchor Lucas Giolito.