The Chicago White Sox avoided arbitration by agreeing to terms with four players on one-year contracts on Thursday.
First baseman Andrew Vaughn signed for $5.85 million, while right-handers Steven Wilson ($950,000), Justin Anderson ($900,000) and Penn Murfee ($780,00) also remain in the fold, the White Sox announced.
Teams had a 1 p.m. ET deadline for unsigned arbitration-eligible players and teams to exchange figures. The White Sox, who are coming off a historically bad 2024 campaign (41-121), have agreed to terms with all arbitration-eligible players for 2025.
Vaughn, 26, batted .246 last season with 19 home runs and 70 RBIs, and tied a career high with 30 doubles in 149 games. Vaughn is a career .253 hitter with 72 homers and 274 RBIs in 562 games for the White Sox since his major league debut in April 2021. Chicago selected him with the third overall pick of the 2019 MLB Draft.
Anderson, 32, was 1-2 with one save in his first season with the White Sox, with a 4.39 ERA, 32 walks and 57 strikeouts in 53 1/3 innings over 56 relief appearances.
He pitched parts of two seasons in 2018 and 2019 for the Los Angeles Angels (a combined 6-3, 4.75 ERA in 102 1/3 innings over 111 games) before missing the 2020 season due to Tommy John surgery. He played in the minor leagues for the Texas Rangers and Kansas City Royals before signing a minor league contract with the White Sox in November 2023.
Wilson, 30, was 1-6 last season with a 5.71 ERA, 26 walks and 34 strikeouts in 34 2/3 innings over 40 relief appearances. The right-hander pitched in 2022 and 2023 for the San Diego Padres, going a combined 5-4 with one save, a 3.48 ERA, 47 walks and 110 strikeouts in 106 innings over 102 games (one start).
The White Sox selected Murfee, 30, off waivers from the Houston Astros in November. He pitched in the majors for the Seattle Mariners in 2022 and 2023, going a combined 5-2 with a 2.70 ERA, 28 walks and 92 strikeouts in 83 1/3 innings over 80 games (one start).
Seattle waived him at the end of the 2023 season, and he spent time with the New York Mets, Atlanta Braves and Astros organizations.
–Field Level Media
