{"id":490275,"date":"2025-12-23T05:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T05:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/490275\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T05:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T05:42:11","slug":"white-sox-dustin-harris-agree-to-minor-league-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/490275\/","title":{"rendered":"White Sox, Dustin Harris Agree To Minor League Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"

The White Sox are signing outfielder\u00a0Dustin Harris<\/a> to a minor league deal, reports James Fegan of Sox Machine<\/a>. The lefty hitter will be in camp as a non-roster invitee.<\/p>\n

Harris, 26, is a former A\u2019s draftee who was traded to Texas early in his career. He showed a decent power-speed combination in the minors and ranked among Baseball America\u2019s top 10 prospects in the Rangers system each year from 2022-24. The Rangers carried him on their 40-man roster for a couple years. Harris received a brief look as a September call-up at the end of the \u201924 season. His prospect stock had already begun to dim by that point, as his .272\/.358\/.391 showing in the Triple-A Pacific Coast League was a little worse than average given the hitter-friendly setting.<\/p>\n

The Rangers bounced Harris on and off the active roster for the first few months of this past season. They designated him for assignment at the trade deadline and successfully ran him through waivers. He came back up in September while\u00a0Adolis Garc\u00eda<\/a> was on the injured list but was outrighted again at the beginning of the offseason. Harris elected free agency the second time around.<\/p>\n

His big league r\u00e9sum\u00e9 consists of 21 games, in which he has hit .217 with a .280 on-base percentage. Harris has posted solid but not exceptional numbers over two and a half seasons in Triple-A. He\u2019s a .276\/.367\/.420 hitter in nearly 1300 plate appearances. Harris has posted strong strikeout and walk rates, but his exit velocities at the Triple-A level are near the bottom of the scale. He can play all three outfield positions and probably fits best in left field.<\/p>\n

The White Sox have\u00a0Andrew Benintendi<\/a> in left field and\u00a0Luis Robert Jr.<\/a> (barring a trade) to play center. Out-of-options\u00a0Everson Pereira<\/a> is probably lined up for right field work. Pereira has a .146\/.227\/.215 line in 50 major league games. Fourth outfielder\u00a0Derek Hill<\/a> and depth types\u00a0Brooks Baldwin<\/a> and\u00a0Tristan Peters<\/a> are on the 40-man roster. They\u2019ll enter Spring Training ahead of Harris on the depth chart, but it\u2019s a good spot for a non-roster invitee to carve out a role with an impressive camp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The White Sox are signing outfielder\u00a0Dustin Harris to a minor league deal, reports James Fegan of Sox Machine.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,37403,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-490275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-dustin-harris","10":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115767289190550112","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490275","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=490275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}