The White Sox made their first deal of trade deadline season on Wednesday, sending outfielder Austin Slater to the New York Yankees in exchange for right-handed pitcher Gage Ziehl.
Ziehl, 22, was selected by the Yankees in the fourth round of the 2024 draft out of the University of Miami. He's pitched in 16 games this season, 15 of them starts. Fourteen of those appearances came for Low-A Tampa. Across 82.1 innings, he has a 4.15 ERA with 70 strikeouts and 14 walks.
The Sox have assigned Ziehl to High-A Winston-Salem.
Slater batted .236/.299/.423 with five homers and 11 RBIs in 51 games with the Sox. As a right-handed batter, he's good at one thing: hitting left-handed pitching.
Against lefties this season, Slater posted a .261/.338/.522 slash line that included all five of his homers. For any Yankees fans who are stumbling across this blog, you are not getting a complete player or an everyday player. But you are getting an outfielder who can fill a very specific role.
Platoon Slater against lefties, and he will contribute.
Who knows about Ziehl? He's in his first year in pro ball, and I won't pretend to know what his future is. Most of these type of acquisitions don't work out, but you never know.
White Sox 9, Phillies 3
The Sox used a seven-run seventh inning to beat the Philadelphia Phillies on Wednesday afternoon. The South Siders took two out of three in the series, and they are now 8-4 since the All-Star break.
Four players age 25 or younger hit home runs for the Sox in this win. Kyle Teel and Colson Montgomery each hit solo homers. Miguel Vargas and Edgar Quero each hit 3-run homers in the decisive seventh inning.
If you had to draw it up, you would want the young guys to be at the forefront of whatever success this team has the rest of the way.
The Sox are 40-69.
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