{"id":549454,"date":"2026-02-01T20:13:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T20:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/549454\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T20:13:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T20:13:14","slug":"white-sox-acquire-right-hander-jordan-hicks-from-boston-for-prospect-gage-ziehl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/549454\/","title":{"rendered":"White Sox acquire right-hander Jordan Hicks from Boston for prospect Gage Ziehl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">BOSTON (AP) \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/chicago-white-sox-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago White Sox<\/a> have acquired right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/jordan-hicks-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jordan Hicks<\/a> from Boston, according to a person familiar with the deal, a trade that would help the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/boston-red-sox-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Red Sox<\/a> lower their luxury tax bill for 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Chicago also will receive pitching prospect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/david-sandlin-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Sandlin<\/a> in return and send right-handed prospect Gage Ziehl and a player to be named to the Red Sox, according to the person who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Sunday because the deal hadn\u2019t been announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Hicks, 29, was 2-7 with a 6.95 ERA for Boston and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/san-francisco-giants-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Giants<\/a> last season. He is 17-35 with a 4.41 ERA in a seven-year career that also includes time with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/st-louis-cardinals-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. Louis Cardinals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Sandlin, a 24-year-old righty, is 13-12 with a 4.38 ERA in four minor league seasons. He split time last year at Triple-A Worcester and Double-A Portland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Ziehl is a 22-year-old 11th-round draft pick who has pitched one game above Single-A.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">AP Baseball Writer Jay Cohen in Chicago contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">AP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLB<\/a>: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOSTON (AP) \u2014 The Chicago White Sox have acquired right-hander Jordan Hicks from Boston, according to a person&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2403],"tags":[5,160,4,673,67,4311,4310],"class_list":{"0":"post-549454","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-louis-cardinals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cardinals","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-st-louis","12":"tag-st-louis-cardinals","13":"tag-stlouis","14":"tag-stlouiscardinals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115997206742840077","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549454","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=549454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}