{"id":31573,"date":"2025-05-16T15:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T15:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/31573\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T15:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T15:07:08","slug":"white-sox-designate-jacob-amaya-for-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/31573\/","title":{"rendered":"White Sox Designate Jacob Amaya For Assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"

The White Sox announced Friday morning that infielder Jacob Amaya<\/a> has been designated for assignment. He\u2019ll be the corresponding roster move for Chicago\u2019s previously reported acquisition<\/a> of reliever Miguel Castro<\/a>. The Sox also added infielder Vinny Capra<\/a>, whom they claimed off waivers from the Brewers, to their active roster. Left-hander Jared Shuster<\/a> was optioned to Triple-A to clear a second roster spot.<\/p>\n

Amaya, 26, originally came to the White Sox via waivers last August. He was briefly jettisoned from the 40-man roster in January and claimed by the Orioles. The South Siders claimed Amaya back from Baltimore two weeks later when the O\u2019s tried to pass him through waivers themselves.<\/p>\n

Amaya is regarded as a gifted defender but offers little with the bat. He\u2019s appeared in 56 games with the ChiSox and totaled 139 plate appearances but has just a .140\/.174\/.155 batting line to show for it \u2014 including a .097\/.119\/.113 slash in 68 plate appearances this season. Though he\u2019s yet to provide any offense in the big leagues, Amaya has a more palatable (albeit still below average) .246\/.342\/.380 batting line in 1219 plate appearances at the Triple-A level.<\/p>\n

Because Amaya is out of minor league options, the Sox couldn\u2019t simply send him directly to Triple-A Charlotte. He\u2019d first need to pass through outright waivers for the Sox to be able to assign him to a minor league affiliate. Major League Baseball\u2019s DFA window lasts a week, and the Sox are free to explore trade possibilities or place Amaya during that time. Waivers are a 48-hour process, however, so if they find a trade partner it\u2019d need to happen within the next five days. Given Amaya\u2019s struggles this year, waivers seem likelier, but a team with a short-term need at shortstop could show some interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The White Sox announced Friday morning that infielder Jacob Amaya has been designated for assignment. He\u2019ll be the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2379],"tags":[5,138,49,2561,5009,4,396,2562],"class_list":{"0":"post-31573","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-white-sox","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-white-sox","11":"tag-chicagowhitesox","12":"tag-jacob-amaya","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-white-sox","15":"tag-whitesox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114518140228717914","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}