Benintendi, White Sox finalize $75 million, 5-year contract
CHICAGO (AP) — All-Star outfielder Andrew Benintendi and the Chicago White Sox finalized a $75 million, five-year contract on Tuesday.
He is due a $3 million signing bonus, plus $8 million in 2023, $16.5 million every season from 2024-26 and $14.5 million in 2027.
The 28-year-old Benintendi helped Boston win a World Series championship in 2018. He gained a Gold Glove with Kansas City in 2021 and was chosen to his first All-Star workforce final season earlier than the Royals traded him to the New York Yankees on July 27. He hit a career-high .304 in 126 video games, although his house run complete dropped to 5 from 17 in 2021.
Benintendi batted .254 in 33 video games with the Yankees and missed the playoffs due to a damaged proper wrist.
Overall, Benintendi has a .279 batting common and 73 homers over seven seasons with Boston, Kansas City and New York.
He reunites with White Sox supervisor Pedro Grifol, who took over for Hall of Famer Tony La Russa after spending the previous 10 years in a wide range of teaching roles with Kansas City.
Chicago is trying to bounce again from a disappointing 2022 season, when the workforce went 81-81 and completed 11 video games again of AL Central champion Cleveland. The White Sox had been coming off back-to-back playoff appearances and ran away with the division in 2021.
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