{"id":637865,"date":"2026-03-22T22:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T22:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/637865\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T22:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T22:02:11","slug":"white-sox-sign-reese-mcguire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/637865\/","title":{"rendered":"White Sox Sign Reese McGuire"},"content":{"rendered":"

The White Sox announced that catcher Reese McGuire<\/a>, has been signed to a one-year, $1.2MM contract. \u00a0ESPN\u2019s Jesse Rogers<\/a> was the first to report the signing shortly before the club\u2019s official announcement.\u00a0 No additional roster move was needed since the Sox had an open spot on their 40-man roster.\u00a0 McGuire is represented by Apex Baseball.<\/p>\n

McGuire just opted out of a minor league deal with the Brewers yesterday and had 72 hours to explore the market for a new club.\u00a0 It took him about a day to land in a familiar location, as McGuire previously had a 53-game stint with the White Sox in 2022 (and he played on the other side of Chicago with the Cubs in 2025).<\/p>\n

Signing a catcher didn\u2019t seem any kind of priority for a Sox team that had Kyle Teel<\/a>, Edgar Quero<\/a>, and Korey Lee<\/a> all lined up behind the plate, with Teel and Quero projected to get at-bats from both the catching position and the DH slot.\u00a0 However, Teel suffered a Grade 2 hamstring strain during the World Baseball Classic that will keep him out of action for about 4-6 weeks, or roughly mid- to late April.<\/p>\n

Teel told MLB.com\u2019s Scott Merkin<\/a> yesterday that he is \u201cprogressing fast,\u201d and hoping to miss only about four weeks of time.\u00a0 Even with this positive update and the presence of both Quero and Lee, the White Sox apparently wanted to reinforce their catching depth, and perhaps retain the three-catcher plan they intend to deploy for the rest of the season.\u00a0 Lee is out of minor league options and sending either Teel or Quero down to Triple-A doesn\u2019t seem to be in Chicago\u2019s long-term interest (unless either is really struggling), so it creates an interesting question as to what will happen when Teel is healthy and the Sox are juggling four backstops.<\/p>\n

For now, McGuire will suit up for his former team and look to provide his usual solid glovework.\u00a0 A top prospect back during his time in the Pirates\u2019 farm system, McGuire has settled into a journeyman\/backup type of career, playing for six different organizations during his career.\u00a0 McGuire has hit .248\/.293\/.374 with 25 homers over 1178 career plate appearances, with nine of those home runs coming last year with the Cubs (as part of a .226\/.245\/.444 slash line in 140 PA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The White Sox announced that catcher Reese McGuire, has been signed to a one-year, $1.2MM contract. \u00a0ESPN\u2019s Jesse…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,15567],"class_list":["post-637865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-baseball","tag-reese-mcguire"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116275089084459756","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637865","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=637865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}