White Sox Continue To Wait On Return From Jimenez Contract

Maybe the White Sox will wind up looking smart for signing Eloy Jimenez to a long-term contract before he played in the major leagues. But Jimenez can’t stay healthy, and his injuries make you think it’s not a foregone conclusion the franchise will choose to continue the relationship beyond next season, the last guaranteed year in the six-year, $43 million he signed in March, 2019.

That contract could eventually be worth $78 million over eight seasons but the last $35 million is contained in club options for 2025 and ’26, which would have been his first years of free agency without the contract. Jimenez is yet to deliver a 2-WAR season and has averaged 87 games a year when you discount the abbreviated 2020 schedule, when he did his best work to date in the major leagues.