By Danny Bolivar
After starting the second stage of the Major League Baseball calendar, many contending teams seek to reinforce their roster for the playoffs, as a possible reinforcement the name of Yoán Moncada sounds.Announcements
The Cuban is currently linked with the Chicago White Sox for at least two and a half more years where he has a salary of 24.8 million dollars (2024) and 25 million (2025), data from Baseball Reference.
However, it is important to mention that this last year is a club option, which if exercised Moncada will receive five million as compensation.
Many will wonder why the name of the Cuban appears as a possible piece of change? There are two quite notorious reasons.
In the first place, the White Sox present in their Division is not as expected and with little chance of reversing this situation, they will choose to get rid of some players in favor of “rebuilding” or adding pieces with a view to the coming seasons.
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Secondly, when these situations arise, organizations get rid of those players with whom they have a larger contract.
In this case, Yoán Moncada will receive a total of 17.8 million this year and in theory he still lacks 8.9 million of that money, which when added to the rest of his salary could be a total of 58.7 million or 38.7 in the worst case. .
With a Chicago team no longer contending for a ticket to the postseason, they see this type of trade as more feasible.
However, until now there is still no offer from other teams to take over the services of Yoán Moncada, a situation that could change until the next August 1, the deadline for changes in the MLB.
Yoán Moncada numbers in 2023
After 38 regular round games, the White Sox third baseman has posted a .232 average in 138 at-bats.
During this time Yoán Moncada had 32 hits, eight of them doubles, one triple and three home runs, he also scored 17 runs and drove in another 13. Statistics obtained from SwingCompleto.
They are not impressive numbers, but his tour of the Major Leagues does not go unnoticed and is a good piece to reinforce the roster of another team that is fighting for a ticket to the playoffs.
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2023-07-16 20:25:09
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