CHICAGO \u2014 The Chicago White Sox acquired right-hander Miguel Castro in a trade with the Houston Astros on Friday.<\/p>\n
Castro and infielder Vinny Capra were added to the roster before the opener of a three-game series against the Chicago Cubs. Capra was claimed off waivers from Milwaukee on Thursday.<\/p>\n
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To make room on the roster, the White Sox optioned left-hander Jared Shuster to Triple-A Charlotte, and infielder Jacob Amaya was designated for assignment.<\/p>\n
The White Sox traded international signing bonus pool money to Houston for Castro, who signed a minor league deal with the Astros on Dec. 29.<\/p>\n
The 30-year-old Castro went 3-0 with five saves and a 2.29 ERA in 17 relief appearances with Triple-A Sugar Land this season.<\/p>\n
Castro broke into the big leagues with Toronto in 2015. He is 22-28 with a 4.20 ERA in 419 major league games, also playing for Baltimore, Arizona, Colorado and both New York teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO \u2014 The Chicago White Sox acquired right-hander Miguel Castro in a trade with the Houston Astros on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2389],"tags":[146,42,143,5,24,49,167,139,54,3211,5009,12174,11612,843,4,282,7585],"class_list":{"0":"post-31703","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-astros","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-astros","10":"tag-baltimore","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-chicago-cubs","13":"tag-chicago-white-sox","14":"tag-colorado","15":"tag-houston","16":"tag-houston-astros","17":"tag-houstonastros","18":"tag-jacob-amaya","19":"tag-jared-shuster","20":"tag-miguel-castro","21":"tag-milwaukee","22":"tag-mlb","23":"tag-toronto","24":"tag-vinny-capra"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114518443015524613","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31703","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=31703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}