Want the latest baseball news? Subscribe to the Chicago Tribune<\/a> to read it all \u2014 and sign up for our Cubs Insider<\/a>\u00a0and White Sox Insider<\/a> newsletters.<\/p>\n Sox benefiting from Andrew Benintendi\u2019s experience Benintendi reached 10 years of major-league service time on July 12.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was great, it was kind of a good way to get your 10 years, celebrating with your team,\u201d Benintendi said Monday at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas. \u201cI wasn\u2019t necessarily expecting that, nor do I feel comfortable with all that. I was hoping it would fly under the radar.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was cool.\u201d<\/p>\n Benintendi made his major-league debut with the Boston Red Sox on Aug. 2, 2016, in Seattle. When asked if it felt like 10 years, Benintendi responded, \u201cNot really.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI remember coming up, guys saying, \u2018Enjoy it, because it\u2019s going to go fast,’\u201d he said. \u201cMaybe the last few years haven\u2019t felt as fast, but it\u2019s been good overall.\u201d<\/p>\n Manager Will Venable said Benintendi\u2019s presence has meant \u201ca lot.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cA guy who has the experience and the wisdom of 10 years in the big leagues and playing at a high level that our players can tap into, that I can tap into and can help us all with his experience,\u201d Venable said Tuesday. \u201cYou also have a guy that\u2019s creating a lot of space for these young players to be leaders and supporting them to advance in their careers, both in the clubhouse and on the field.\u201d<\/p>\n Benintendi has largely served as a designated hitter this season. He is hitting .245 with 10 home runs and 52 RBIs in 89 games.<\/p>\n Benintendi had a three-run double Monday in a 10-3 victory against the Texas Rangers and had two hits and two RBIs in Wednesday\u2019s 4-2 win.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s made a huge impact,\u201d Venable said. \u201cI feel like he\u2019s coming through in these spots. With his experience that he has, he\u2019s just kind of got that thing that he\u2019s been in these spots before and you know he\u2019s got the ability and the demeanor to deal with them.\u201d<\/p>\n Cubs reportedly calling up prospect James Triantos The Cubs are again tapping into their position-player prospect depth.<\/p>\n They reportedly are calling up Triantos, their seventh-ranked prospect by MLB.com. Triantos shared news of his big-league promotion to his Instagram story Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n The 23-year-old infielder had a tough year with Triple-A Iowa in 2025, his first full season at that level after getting a taste in 2024. He has bounced back well this season, hitting .306 with a .344 on-base percentage and a .784 OPS while predominately playing second and third base with all three outfield spots mixed in.<\/p>\n A second-round pick in 2021, Triantos had a strong spring performance in big-league camp, and his 40-man roster status gave him a pathway to his first big-league call-up this season.<\/p>\n \u201cTriantos\u2019 job is to really just continue to get better,\u201d manager Craig Counsell said during spring training. \u201cHe got to Triple A at a really young age. Didn\u2019t have his best season last year, but he\u2019s been a talented offensive player since he entered professional baseball, and we\u2019re going to get back to that. He\u2019s off to a good start in showing that this spring.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen you\u2019re on the 40-man roster the message is always, look, whatever\u2019s going on you\u2019re a day away from being a Chicago Cub. So, I always think that helps you through the season and understanding that if something happens because you\u2019re on the roster, you get the first shot.\u201d<\/p>\n Outfielder Kevin Alc\u00e1ntara has been optioned to Iowa, according to the affiliate\u2019s transactions, setting him up to be the corresponding move for Triantos barring other Cubs roster moves before their series opener Friday in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n Number of the week: 19<\/p>\n Anthony Kay has hit 19 batters, a Sox single-season record. He leads the majors in the category and is the first with 19 since the Cincinnati Reds\u2019 Hunter Greene in 2024.<\/p>\n Week ahead: Cubs Friday: at Pirates, 5:40 p.m., Marquee The Cubs announced Thursday they agreed to terms with 12 more of their draft picks, bringing the total to 17 of their 21 selections.<\/p>\n With second-round outfielder Caden Sorrell, second-round comp-selection infielder Myles Bailey, fifth-round right-hander Dylan Blomker, sixth-round right-hander Isaac Morton, eighth-round right-hander Lance Williams and ninth-round right-hander Chase Meyer in the fold, the Cubs have agreed to deals with all of their picks in the top 10 rounds.<\/p>\n Blomker reportedly signed for more than double the value of his slot, agreeing to an $888,000 bonus rather than play college ball at LSU. Sorrell and Bailey also reportedly received above-slot bonuses, roughly $150,000 and $780,000 more that their draft slot, respectively.<\/p>\n The Cubs had a bonus-pool allotment of $9,644,100 to spend on their picks in the top 10 rounds plus anything over $150,000 to rounds 11-20 players that counts against the pool too. Teams can spend up to 5% over their pool allotment without penalty beyond paying a 75% tax on the overage, which the Cubs have done every year.<\/p>\n The four remaining unsigned players \u2014 Clemson right-hander Ariston Veasey (11th round), Puerto Rico high school catcher Emanuel Hernandez (13th), James Madison right-hander Luke McGrath (18th) and Vanderbilt right-hander Luke Guth (19th) \u2014 have until 4 p.m. Monday to come to terms with the team.<\/p>\n Week ahead: White Sox Friday: vs. Astros, 6:40 p.m., CHSN Munetaka Murakami led off the fourth inning of Tuesday\u2019s game against the Rangers with a single to right field.\u00a0It was part of a 1-for-3 night for the All-Star first baseman, who also drew a walk.<\/p>\n Murakami is 5-for-30 with three doubles and one RBI in nine games since returning from the injured list on July 10. The Sox are 7-2 during that stretch. He went on the IL on May 30 with a right hamstring strain.<\/p>\n \u201cI think overall, (my timing is) getting better,\u201d Murakami said through an interpreter Tuesday in Arlington, Texas. \u201cI\u2019ve been seeing the ball very clearly and I\u2019m getting good at-bats. Overall, it\u2019s good.\u201d<\/p>\n Murakami has nine walks since returning, including at least one in each of the last eight games.<\/p>\n Before Monday\u2019s game, Venable said the Sox had \u201cseen really good things\u201d from Murakami at the plate since his return.<\/p>\n \u201cNo. 1, the swing decisions are there,\u201d Venable said. \u201cYeah, there\u2019s some balls that he probably has swung and missed at that he wants back that we\u2019re used to seeing those being hit really hard. But I think he\u2019s in a fine spot.<\/p>\n \u201cEspecially with left-handed hitters, when you see balls squared off to backside, to the opposite field, to me that\u2019s a really good precursor to being able to drive the ball on the pull side and put yourself in a good spot. He\u2019s close and even when he\u2019s not hitting homers, he\u2019s making an impact.\u201d<\/p>\n What we\u2019re reading today<\/p>\n Quotable<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re going on the road to play two teams that are good teams and that are in it. So these are big games from just from that perspective. I don\u2019t think about it as much from the division perspective, but these are two good teams that we\u2019re going to play and you\u2019re getting to the point where these are big series.\u201d \u2014 Counsell on facing the Pittsburgh Pirates and St. Louis Cardinals in the next week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A .500 homestand against the Minnesota Twins and Detroit Tigers didn\u2019t do much to help the Cubs\u2019 attempt…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2379],"tags":[1000,10945,5,45080,54468,138,24,49,2561,576,86295,94111,9672,73541,4,73,54478,396,2562,998],"class_list":["post-760161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-white-sox","tag-andrew-benintendi","tag-anthony-kay","tag-baseball","tag-caden-sorrell","tag-chase-meyer","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-chicagowhitesox","tag-craig-counsell","tag-dylan-blomker","tag-isaac-morton","tag-james-triantos","tag-lance-williams","tag-mlb","tag-munetaka-murakami","tag-myles-bailey","tag-white-sox","tag-whitesox","tag-will-venable"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116974682720031006","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760161","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=760161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n![\"White](\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/CTC-L-sox-guardians-0622-26.jpg\")
White Sox designated hitter Andrew Benintendi hits a RBI single against the Guardians on June 22, 2026, at Rate Field. (Armando L. Sanchez\/Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n
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Cubs prospect James Triantos poses for a portrait during photo day at spring training at Sloan Park on Feb. 17, 2026, in Mesa, Ariz. (Armando L. Sanchez\/Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n
\n![\"Texas](\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/AP26150657325670.jpg\")
Texas A&M outfielder Caden Sorrell waits for a pitch against Lamar during an NCAA regional on May 29, 2026, in College Station, Texas. (Sam Craft\/AP)<\/p>\n
\nSaturday: at Pirates, 5:40 p.m., Marquee
\nSunday: at Pirates, 12:35 p.m., Marquee
\nMonday: at Cardinals, 6:45 p.m., Marquee
\nTuesday: at Cardinals, 6:45 p.m., Marquee
\nWednesday: at Cardinals, 6:45 p.m., Marquee
\nThursday: at Cardinals, 1:15 p.m., Marquee<\/p>\n
\n![\"White](\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/CTC-WHITE-SOX-ATHLETICS-071026-38.jpg\")
White Sox first baseman Munetaka Murakami tosses a ball to fans in the eighth inning against the Athletics on July 10, 2026, at Rate Field. (John J. Kim\/Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n
\nSaturday: vs. Astros, 6:10 p.m., CHSN
\nSunday: vs. Astros, 1:10 p.m., CHSN
\nMonday: vs. Yankees, 6:40 p.m., CHSN
\nTuesday: vs. Yankees, 6:40 p.m., CHSN
\nWednesday: vs. Yankees, 6:40 p.m., CHSN
\nThursday: vs. Yankees, 1:10 p.m., CHSN<\/p>\n