{"id":581203,"date":"2026-02-19T15:05:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T15:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/581203\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T15:05:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T15:05:19","slug":"white-soxs-seranthony-dominguez-confirmed-as-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/581203\/","title":{"rendered":"White Sox&#8217;s Seranthony Dominguez: Confirmed as closer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771453483_350_video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/teams\/CHW\/chicago-white-sox\/\" aria-label=\"home team page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"TeamLogo-image\" alt=\"team logo\" src=\"https:\/\/sports.cbsimg.net\/fly\/images\/team-logos\/304.svg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                                                <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Manager Will Venable officially named <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/players\/2898211\/dominguez\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dominguez<\/a> as the closer for the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/teams\/CHW\/chicago-white-sox\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">White Sox<\/a> to begin the 2026 season, James Fegan of Sox Machine reports.<\/p>\n<p>Dominguez joined the White Sox on a two-year, $20 million deal in late January, which presumably lined him up to be the team&#8217;s closer. Venable left no doubt during comments to the media early in spring training, clearly tabbing Dominguez for the ninth-inning role. More interestingly, Brian Bannister, the director of pitching, credited Dominguez&#8217;s introduction of a splitter for his improved home run rate in 2025 and believes it can carry over into 2026 due to its ability to neutralize lefty power.<\/p>\n<p>        More News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manager Will Venable officially named Dominguez as the closer for the White Sox to begin the 2026 season,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2379],"tags":[5,138,49,2561,28,4,2539,396,2562],"class_list":{"0":"post-581203","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-fantasy-baseball","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-seranthony-dominguez","15":"tag-white-sox","16":"tag-whitesox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116097917792338405","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581203","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=581203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}