{"id":659447,"date":"2026-04-02T20:07:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T20:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/659447\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T20:07:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T20:07:14","slug":"former-savannah-banana-tristan-peters-lining-up-his-shot-in-white-sox-outfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/659447\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Savannah Banana Tristan Peters lining up his shot in White Sox outfield"},"content":{"rendered":"

MIAMI \u2014 There\u2019s nothing smooth about White Sox<\/a> outfielder Tristan Peters\u2019 game.<\/p>\n

\u201cGritty,\u201d he calls it. \u201cI\u2019m going to run hard every time, try to beat out infield singles if I can and put my body on the line if I need to, just to make those catches.\u201d<\/p>\n

But it turns out Peters is pretty smooth on the line, when he wants to be. Line dancing, country and swing, that is.<\/p>\n

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\"Tristan<\/p>\n

The Manitoba native found his groove when he wasn\u2019t turning heads in center field at Chandler-Gilbert Community College in Arizona in 2019. His skillset both on and off the field stuck with an opposing junior college manager, who went on to coach the Savannah Bananas and recruit Peters to the famed exhibition team.<\/p>\n

As the 26-year-old Peters now tries to stake his big-league claim in the Sox\u2019 outfield, he credits his brief foray into Banana Ball with helping to develop the high-octane, free-wheeling attitude he brings to the field.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not really my type of thing, but it helped me a lot just to get out of my shell,\u201d said Peters, who also met his wife, Erin, on the Arizona line-dancing circuit. \u201cAnd I honestly had a blast playing for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Savannah squad that Peters played for in 2021 wasn\u2019t quite the choreographed touring spectacle that packed Rate Field last year<\/a> and comes to Wrigley Field in July. He went 16-for-50 with four doubles across 17 games that could be considered collegiate amateur contests with regular dance interludes.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was still like regular baseball, but I enjoyed it very much. Made some good friends, too. They kind of pulled whatever they could out of you. I did do two dances, which I never would have seen myself doing before that,\u201d Peters said.<\/p>\n

He politely declined a demonstration during his first road trip with the Sox, but videos of his kilted ensemble performances \u2014 including a final one to the tune of Britney Spears\u2019 \u201cBaby One More Time\u201d \u2014 aren\u2019t difficult to track down online.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt just brings up some of the more fun aspects of the game, especially for kids. They love that showy kind of stuff,\u201d said Peters, who also played at Southern Illinois University and got drafted by the Brewers while wearing Banana yellow.<\/p>\n

Acquired by the Sox from Tampa Bay in December<\/a> for cash considerations, Peters showed out with a .270\/.333\/.514 spring training, including two doubles, two triples and a homer to grab a roster spot.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was good at-bats, grindy-type at bats, which we love to see,\u201d assistant general manager Josh Barfield said. \u201cHe\u2019s got some juice, but he can put down a bunt. It\u2019s just a fun style of baseball to watch.\u201d<\/p>\n

After appearing in four games last season with the Rays, Peters knocked the first hit of his career last weekend in Milwaukee, the start of a five-game on-base streak. He also swiped his first career stolen base Tuesday in Miami and headed to Chicago hitting 5-for-15 with a double after the Sox\u2019 god-awful first two series<\/a> of the season.<\/p>\n

\u201cTristan can get you in a lot of different ways,\u201d manager Will Venable said. \u201cGives our offense a little bit of a different look and a different weapon in there\u2026 Really quality at-bats, really competitive and the defense is really good, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

Peters knows as well as anyone that nothing\u2019s guaranteed for him with regular turnover this year between the Sox and Triple-A Charlotte, especially with injured utility player Brooks Baldwin on the mend<\/a> and infield prospect Sam Antonacci taking regular reps in left field<\/a> to hasten his path to The Show.<\/p>\n

Peters will just keep lining it up as long as they let him.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s always a blessing to be in big leagues,\u201d Peters said. \u201cJust trying to make the most of it. Having been with so many teams, it is kind of cool.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI \u2014 There\u2019s nothing smooth about White Sox outfielder Tristan Peters\u2019 game. \u201cGritty,\u201d he calls it. \u201cI\u2019m going…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659448,"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-659447","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\/116336922684299767","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659447","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=659447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}