White Sox Designate Five Players in Post-Opening Day Roster Shakeup

By Marge Halloran · AL Central wire reporter for The Motor City Dispatch · Monday, April 10, 2051

The Chicago White Sox executed a sweeping roster overhaul just after Opening Day, designating five players for assignment and placing them on waivers.

The move clears significant space on the 40-man roster and removes a pair of starting pitchers, a center fielder, a relief pitcher, and a catcher from the active club.

Starting pitchers Kyle Green and Danny Avila were both designated, creating immediate vacancies in the Chicago rotation. Center fielder Bronson Mackey, catcher Javy Carmona, and reliever Akimasa Endo round out the group placed on waivers.

Designating five players at once is a rare volume of turnover for the first week of the regular season. Removing two starters and an everyday center fielder signals a rapid, perhaps unexpected, shift in the club’s evaluation of its spring training and early-season depth. Management is clearly prioritizing roster flexibility over holding onto depth pieces that were not in their immediate opening-week plans.

For the rest of the AL Central, the waiver wire just got significantly more interesting. Rival front offices will have 48 hours to evaluate whether any of the five players are worth claiming and absorbing onto their own 40-man rosters. Finding two major league starting pitchers and a center fielder on the wire in early April is an unusual windfall for division rivals looking to patch early-season holes or stash depth.

If the players go unclaimed, Chicago will have seven days to trade, release, or outright them to the minor leagues. Until the claims period closes, baseball operations departments in Cleveland, Detroit, Kansas City, and Minneapolis will be monitoring the transaction wire closely to see what falls into their lap. Claiming a player requires assuming his existing contract, which could deter some clubs, but the sheer volume of talent available makes this a unique early-season test of the division’s waiver priorities.

Notebook

2051-04-03

Chicago White Sox: Placed RP Yin-ti Leong on the active roster.
Chicago White Sox: Placed RP Danny Ortega on the active roster.
Chicago White Sox: Placed C Edwin Diaz on the active roster.
Chicago White Sox: C Javy Carmona was designated for assignment and placed on waivers.
Chicago White Sox: Placed C Edwin Diaz on the secondary (40-man) roster.
Chicago White Sox: RP Akimasa Endo was designated for assignment and placed on waivers.
Chicago White Sox: Placed RP Yin-ti Leong on the secondary (40-man) roster.
Chicago White Sox: Placed RP Yin-ti Leong on the active roster.
Chicago White Sox: Placed RP Danny Ortega on the secondary (40-man) roster.
Chicago White Sox: Placed RP Danny Ortega on the active roster.
Chicago White Sox: CF Bronson Mackey was designated for assignment and placed on waivers.
Chicago White Sox: Placed C Edwin Diaz on the secondary (40-man) roster.
Chicago White Sox: Placed C Edwin Diaz on the active roster.
Chicago White Sox: SP Kyle Green was designated for assignment and placed on waivers.
Chicago White Sox: Placed SS James Meredith on the secondary (40-man) roster.
Chicago White Sox: SP Danny Avila was designated for assignment and placed on waivers.
Chicago White Sox: Placed RP Mario Cervantes on the secondary (40-man) roster.
Cleveland Guardians: Placed RP Sal Amezquita on the secondary (40-man) roster.
Cleveland Guardians: Released 2B Zak Kingscott.
Cleveland Guardians: Released SP Jordan Moten.
Cleveland Guardians: Released SP Isaiah Young.
Cleveland Guardians: Released 2B Aaron Robertson.
Kansas City Royals: Released former Rule 5 draft pick RP Oualid Caillaud, returned to original Organization Atlanta Braves.
[G]Released by the New York organization.
[G]Released by the Los Angeles organization.
Optioned C Nick Cuyler to Triple A Toledo.
Optioned 2B Guo-liang Thean to Triple A Toledo.
Optioned CF Juan Medina to Triple A Toledo.
Optioned 3B Keyon Ferguson to Triple A Toledo.
Optioned SP Sang-yeon Kim to Triple A Toledo.
Optioned SP Jose Gonzalez to Triple A Toledo.
Optioned SP Omar Ramirez to Triple A Toledo.
Optioned RP Edward Pineda to Triple A Toledo.
Optioned C Nick Cuyler to Triple A Toledo.
Optioned 2B Guo-liang Thean to Triple A Toledo.
Optioned CF Juan Medina to Triple A Toledo.
Optioned 3B Keyon Ferguson to Triple A Toledo.
Optioned SP Sang-yeon Kim to Triple A Toledo.
Optioned SP Jose Gonzalez to Triple A Toledo.
Optioned SP Omar Ramirez to Triple A Toledo.
Optioned RP Edward Pineda to Triple A Toledo.
Demoted SP Jose Gonzalez from Triple A Toledo to Double A Erie.
Demoted SP Robby Flores from Triple A Toledo to Double A Erie.
Demoted SP Sang-yeon Kim from Triple A Toledo to Double A Erie.
Demoted SP David Duran from Triple A Toledo to Double A Erie.
Placed SP Enreecko Puzon on the Eastern League 7-day injured list, retroactive to 03/31/2051.
Promoted SS Elijah Duff from Double A Erie to Triple A Toledo.
Promoted RP Ismael Serrano from Low-A Lakeland to High-A West Michigan.
Promoted RP Nate Williams from Low-A Lakeland to High-A West Michigan.
Promoted C David Matthews from Low-A Lakeland to High-A West Michigan.
Demoted C Danny Valdez from High-A West Michigan to Low-A Lakeland.
Promoted 1B Alex Camacho from Low-A Lakeland to High-A West Michigan.

2051-04-05

Kansas City Royals: Signed international amateur 1B Yvan Licci out of Venezuela to a minor league contract.

2051-04-06

[I]Injured (patellar tendinitis),out for 2 weeks.
[G]Signed a minor league contract out of Japan with the Detroit Tigers organization.
[I]Injured (mild hamstring strain),day-to-day for one week.
Signed international amateur SP Yodo Matsumoto out of Japan to a minor league contract.

2051-04-07

[I]Injured (hyperextended ankle),day-to-day for one week.
[I]Injured (sprained thumb),day-to-day for 4 weeks.
[I]Injured (mild calf strain),day-to-day for 2 days.
[I]Injured (hamstring soreness),day-to-day for 3 days.
RP Jon Oviedo was injured while pitching. The Diagnosis: mild calf strain. This is a day-to-day injury expected to last 2 days.

2051-04-08

Kansas City Royals: Signed international amateur C Dou-wan Niu out of Taiwan to a minor league contract.
[I]Injured (sore thumb),day-to-day for 1 day.
[I]Injured (back stiffness),day-to-day for 3 days.
[A]Goes 5-6 against the Jupiter Hammerheads, with 1 2B, 3 RBI and 4 R.

2051-04-09

[G]Signed a minor league contract out of Dominican Republic with the Detroit Tigers organization.
[I]Injured (back spasms),day-to-day for 2 days.
Signed international amateur SP Jose Herrera out of Dominican Republic to a minor league contract.

2051-04-10

[G]Signed a 1-year minor league contract extension with the San Diego Padres organization.