{"id":657243,"date":"2026-04-01T19:15:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T19:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/657243\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T19:15:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T19:15:25","slug":"white-sox-jettison-rule-5-rookie-jedixson-paez-after-three-outings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/657243\/","title":{"rendered":"White Sox jettison Rule 5 rookie Jedixson Paez after three outings"},"content":{"rendered":"

MIAMI \u2014 The White Sox<\/a> designated Rule 5 Draft rookie Jedixson Paez for assignment Wednesday after just a couple of rough outings to start the 22-year-old reliever\u2019s career<\/a>, while the team picked up the contract of journeyman righty Lucas Sims from Triple-A Charlotte.<\/p>\n

Diamonds like Shane Smith and Mike Vasil don\u2019t always emerge from the Rule 5 rough, but the Sox didn\u2019t exactly ease Paez in for his first three appearances above High-A, where he played last year in the Red Sox organization.<\/p>\n

Manager Will Venable called in Paez for mop-up duty with the bases loaded during their Opening Day blowout loss<\/a> to the Brewers. He walked home a run and later served up a three-run homer in a brutal inning and a third.<\/p>\n

Paez had a clean one-pitch, one-out, one-third of an inning in the second game of the Milwaukee set, but he got rocked Tuesday in Miami to put an ugly early line on his MLB stat sheet: four hits, two homers and six runs surrendered over three innings, with three walks and no strikeouts.<\/p>\n

Venable said Paez\u2019s strike-throwing \u201cwas really his calling card\u2026 and we weren\u2019t able to get there with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a tough jump for him,\u201d Venable said. \u201cJust felt like it was the right thing to do, for him and for our group \u2014 where we\u2019re going to need those innings, we\u2019re going to need some, truthfully, some better performance out of that roster spot.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a Rule 5 pick, Paez will be offered back to the Red Sox after clearing waivers. Sox pitching coach Zach Bove said, \u201cObviously it just didn\u2019t work out, so that\u2019s on us.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\"Lucas<\/p>\n

Sims, 31, impressed as a nonroster invitee at spring training for the Sox. A 2012 first-round draft pick on his fifth big-league club, he brought a 4.86 career ERA as a staffer stitched his name and number on a jersey outside the visitors\u2019 clubhouse before Wednesday\u2019s rubber match in Miami.<\/p>\n

Sims struggled last year with the Nationals, giving up 19 runs in 12 \u2153 innings, but said he feels rejuvenated after an offseason focusing on his mental health, \u201crefining my joy and my love for the game.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo many times you can get caught up in the external, out-of-your-control nonsense,\u201d Sims said. \u201cGetting back to just the raw… kid in the backyard playing the game. It\u2019s just not that serious. It was a lot of work, and we\u2019re in a brighter spot now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before recording a strikeout and a walk while hitting a batter and giving up a double in two scoreless innings for his Sox debut, Sims offered some veteran advice for Paez.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou just keep going. You just keep pitching. He\u2019s got a bright future,\u201d Sims said. \u201cI saw him throw this spring and he has an impressive arm. I don\u2019t think by any means that\u2019s the last we\u2019ll see of him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hays settling in<\/p>\n

Another veteran addition to the Sox is bullish on their prospects despite a tough start. Austin Hays launched his first home run with the Sox on Monday and made an impressive diving catch Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone is learning their role and identity on the team,\u201d Hays said. \u201cI\u2019m seeing that grow and build right now, but I\u2019m really excited for when everybody really settles in and gets comfortable with one another. I\u2019m having a lot of fun with this team and this clubhouse so far. It\u2019s going to be a fun year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI \u2014 The White Sox designated Rule 5 Draft rookie Jedixson Paez for assignment Wednesday after just a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2379],"tags":[5,138,49,2561,4,396,2562],"class_list":{"0":"post-657243","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-mlb","13":"tag-white-sox","14":"tag-whitesox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116331054859014450","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657243","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=657243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}