The White Sox would need to trade these 3 roster players for Juan Soto

The Chicago White Sox has been known as the low-risk/cheap organization in Major League Baseball for a long time. It would be so nice to see them shock the world and make one of the biggest splash sports will have seen in a long time.

A player of Juan Soto’s caliber isn’t out there to be had very long. If they were, every team would go into every year thinking they can win the World Series. He is on the block because of the fact that he and the Washington Nationals can’t get a deal done.

The White Sox don’t have the deepest farm system so it is obvious that they would need to include some of their Major League guys in this deal if it were to go down.

In the highly unlikely event that something like this happens, the Chicago White Sox would need to trade some (if not all) of these three players:

Yoan Moncada’s time with the White Sox has certainly been interesting.

Yoan Moncada has had a very up and down career with the Chicago White Sox. He has been elite with his glove at third base but he can’t hasn’t hit a high level for long stretches at a time in a long while. We know he can do it because he has before but it has been a while.

If the Nationals can be sold on the fact that his ceiling is through the roof, they might consider him as a part of a deal (if it was with the White Sox).

Moncada can be an impactful player in an MLB lineup so he is valuable but he isn’t valuable enough to be the centerpiece. Multiple MLB-ready players would be going along with him.

The White Sox would have to trade Michael Kopech in a Juan Soto trade.

The Chicago White Sox has had a lot invested in Michael Kopech for a long time. He has been an elite starter at times but he has also had some bumps in the road. This all comes in 2022 as he was a long reliever in 2021 (and was quite good at it).

Kopech was used as a reliever in 2021 because of the fact that he was coming off a big-time injury that required Tommy John. He also missed the short 2020 season as he opted out due to personal reasons. Now, he is trying to get his grove on as a full-time starter.

The second half is going to be big for Michael as he needed the All-Star break as bad as anyone on this team. We can only hope that Tony La Russa and the staff use him correctly so that he can be fresh and ready to go when they need him the most.

With all of that in mind, if the unlikely Juan Soto trade call came the White Sox way, he would almost have to be included. They are going to want one of their top starting pitchers and they are unlikely to move Dylan Cease or Lucas Giolito as they are more established stars.

Almost none f this is going to be enough as Washington is going to try and grind a team for everything they can in this deal. Then the team that acquires him is going to have to sign him for close to half a billion dollars over the next decade. It is just so hard to see the White Sox doing that but these three players would certainly be on the block if it did happen.