{"id":24614,"date":"2026-08-02T10:48:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T16:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=24614"},"modified":"2026-08-02T10:48:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T16:48:37","slug":"bolstering-the-rotation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/bolstering-the-rotation\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolstering The Rotation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24615\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/luiscastillo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/luiscastillo.jpg 600w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/luiscastillo-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>After a month of July where only two White Sox starters managed to complete six full innings, Chris Getz pulled off a move that will hopefully bolster the rotation while improving the bullpen, both through less work and by subtraction.\u00a0 The White Sox acquired right-handed starter Luis Castillo from the Mariners in exchange for reliever Seranthony Dom\u00ednguez, catching prospect Boston Smith, and outfielder Nolan Jones.\u00a0 Castillo, 33, is signed through 2027 for $22.75 million with a vesting option for $25 million in 2028.\u00a0 A three-time All-Star, Castillo has struggled this year, with a career-worst 5.06 ERA.<\/p>\n<p>Dominguez, signed this off-season, has struggled, but has been better as of late in low leverage situations.\u00a0 Smith, 23, was acquired from the Nationals this spring and has slashed a combined .291\/.448\/.589 with 22 home runs across three minor league levels this season.\u00a0 Jones, 28, was acquired from the Guardians in June and is basically organization filler at this point.<\/p>\n<p>With the acquisition, Castillo will move into the rotation with Erick Fedde moving to the bullpen.\u00a0 Hopefully the two will take pressure off of the rest of the bullpen innings-wise and Castillo&#8217;s post-season experience will benefit the entire team come October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a month of July where only two White Sox starters managed to complete six full innings, Chris Getz pulled off a move that will hopefully bolster the rotation while improving the bullpen, both through less work and by subtraction.\u00a0 The White Sox acquired right-handed starter Luis Castillo from the Mariners in exchange for reliever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[12737,740,11491,9687,4057,124,117,12081,12717,49],"class_list":["post-24614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-boston-smith","tag-chris-getz","tag-erick-fedde","tag-guardians","tag-luis-castillo","tag-mariners","tag-nationals","tag-nolan-jones","tag-seranthony-dominguez","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24616,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24614\/revisions\/24616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}