Once crowned as the face of the White Sox, Eloy Jiménez appears headed to Baltimore.
Jiménez is in the final year of the six-year, $43 million contract he signed with the White Sox in 2019. He has a $16.5 million club option for 2025 and a $18.5 million club option for 2026, but the Orioles will likely decline those, sending Jiménez into free agency this winter.
Jiménez burst onto the scene in 2019 as a 22-year-old rookie, batting .267/.315/.513 with 31 home runs in 122 games. He won an AL Silver Slugger in 2020 and notched an .858 OPS in '22, but Jimenez has struggled with injuries and has topped 84 games just once over the last five seasons. In 65 games for the White Sox this year, Jimenez batted .240/.297/.345 with five homers and 47 strikeouts. He has endured two stints on the injured list with a left adductor strain and a left hamstring strain.
Jimenez looks set to join an Orioles lineup that leads all of baseball in homers but ranks 23rd in batting average . McGough, a 24th-round pick in 2019, has yet to make his MLB debut. He has a 2.08 ERA in 16 relief appearances at Triple-A Norfolk this season.Tom Dierberger is a staff writer and editor on the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. He joined SI in November 2023 after stints at FOX Sports, Bally Sports and NBC Sports. Dierberger has a bachelor's in communication from St. John's University.
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