3 White Sox who survived trade deadline but won’t be on 2023 roster

The Chicago White Sox have had a lot of great times with Jose Abreu in his career.

Jose Abreu is one of the best players in the history of the Chicago White Sox. He has been the catalyst for this team since he came into the league and will go down as a legend on the south side. With that said, he might be just about done in this uniform.

If the White Sox doesn’t move one of (or both) Andrew Vaughn or Gavin Sheets, there is no point in keeping Jose Abreu around. Those two guys along with Eloy Jimenez create a log jam of players that are DH/1B type guys. He is in the final year of his contract which is making things interesting.

The White Sox chose to keep Abreu at the 2022 deadline when there were a lot of teams that would have loved to add him for their playoff runs. They saw themselves as a potential playoff team so they hung on to all of their guys and Abreu is one of the ones that they could have moved.

Now there is a chance that he is back next year. He led the team in batting average, runs, hits, doubles, walks, and games played so you know he is incredibly reliable. However, of all the guys that survived the trade deadline this year, he is one of the most likely to be gone next year.

The Chicago White Sox might try to see what they can get for Gavin Sheets.

The Chicago White Sox actually handled Gavin Sheets very well this season. He is one of the only players that you can say that about after the 2022 season. He got off to an abysmal start to the 2022 season to the point where you wondered if he might actually not be a Major League player.

Instead of complaining or being weird about it, he went down to AAA when he was sent there and he worked on himself. He is one of the few White Sox players that had the ability to look in the mirror, make changes, and get better. Following that, he got called back up and played very well down the stretch.

Sheets is a very powerful bat in the middle of the order. He can change a game with one swing which is something that other teams in the league might want in a platoon player. The White Sox could very well try to trade him at some point this offseason.

He survived, as every player did besides Reese McGuire, the trade deadline and now he could be gone before the 2023 season. If he is, they might get something nice back for him and he might be able to thrive with another team.

It would be nice to know that the White Sox were going to the playoffs but that just isn’t the case this year. With that in mind, it is smart to start thinking about next year and beyond. This team needs to be much smarter.