{"id":549556,"date":"2026-02-01T22:05:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T22:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/549556\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T22:05:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T22:05:18","slug":"red-sox-trade-jordan-hicks-prospect-to-white-sox-for-ex-yankees-farmhand-gage-ziehl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/549556\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox trade Jordan Hicks, prospect to White Sox for ex-Yankees farmhand Gage Ziehl"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boston\u2019s return for slugger Rafael Devers keeps shrinking.<\/p>\n

Right-handed flamethrower Jordan Hicks, whom the Red Sox acquired last season in the blockbuster trade involving Devers, is headed to the White Sox alongside fellow righty David Sandlin, ESPN\u2019s Jeff Passan reported.<\/a><\/p>\n

Former Yankees prospect Gage Ziehl, another righty who was traded to Chicago for Austin Slater at last year\u2019s trade deadline<\/a>, is headed to the Red Sox, per Chris Cotillo of MassLive.<\/p>\n

\"BostonJordan Hicks. Getty Images<\/p>\n

Cotillo adds that Chicago will send Boston $8 million<\/a> in each of the next two seasons to partially cover Hicks\u2019 remaining $24 million salary.<\/p>\n

The trade allows Boston to shed some salary after a bevy of offseason acquisitions, including signing star lefty Ranger Suarez and Willson Contreras, while the White Sox flex their newfound financial flexibility after trading centerfielder Luis Robert Jr. to the Mets<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hicks, 29, emerged as a hard-throwing bullpen weapon after debuting with the Cardinals in 2018.<\/p>\n

Routinely hitting triple digits on the radar gun, Hicks signed a four-year, $44 million deal <\/a>with the Giants entering the 2024 season \u2013 shifting from the bullpen to the starting rotation.<\/p>\n

\"RafaelBoston traded star slugger Rafael Devers to the Giants. Jason Szenes \/ New York Post<\/p>\n

He struggled to replicate his relief success, posting a 4.10 ERA over 29 appearances in 2024 before enduring a career-worst campaign last year.<\/p>\n

In 13 games with San Francisco, he posted a 6.47 ERA before being shipped to Beantown in the shocking Devers swap<\/a> that came after months of drama over his playing third base reached a boiling point.<\/p>\n

The Red Sox also acquired left-hander Kyle Harrison, outfield\/first base prospect James Tibbs and pitching prospect Jose Bello.<\/p>\n

Boston shifted Hicks back to the bullpen in hopes of recapturing his previous success, but he managed an even worse 8.20 ERA in 21 outings.<\/p>\n

In addition to Hicks, the Red Sox shipped out Sandlin, a 24-year-old hurler ranked by MLB.com as the eighth-best prospect in the organization.<\/p>\n

Sandlin posted a 4.50 ERA between Double-A and Triple-A in Boston\u2019s minor league system.<\/p>\n

The Red Sox acquired Ziehl, 22, a former fourth-round pick of the Yankees in the 2024 MLB Draft.<\/p>\n

He finished 2025 with the White Sox\u2019s High-A affiliate Winston-Salem Dash, posting a 4.01 ERA in six starts after he was dealt for Slater, a veteran right-handed hitter whom the Yankees have considering re-signing this offseason.<\/a><\/p>\n

Ziehl is ranked as the 14th best prospect in Chicago\u2019s system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boston\u2019s return for slugger Rafael Devers keeps shrinking. Right-handed flamethrower Jordan Hicks, whom the Red Sox acquired last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2379],"tags":[5,48,138,49,2561,204,4,863,185,396,2562],"class_list":{"0":"post-549556","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-boston-red-sox","10":"tag-chicago","11":"tag-chicago-white-sox","12":"tag-chicagowhitesox","13":"tag-jordan-hicks","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-rafael-devers","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-white-sox","18":"tag-whitesox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115997647733851255","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549556","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=549556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}