{"id":3618,"date":"2024-11-02T07:58:20","date_gmt":"2024-11-02T07:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=3618"},"modified":"2024-11-02T07:58:20","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T07:58:20","slug":"ex-red-sox-prospect-once-part-of-blockbuster-trade-becomes-free-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=3618","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Red Sox Prospect (Once Part Of Blockbuster Trade) Becomes Free Agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-1958776\"><!--?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ??--><!--?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ??--><!--?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ??-->The rocky, injury-riddled road that was Yo\u00e1n Moncada\u2019s 2024 season with the Chicago White Sox led the 29-year-old to free agency.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago declined Moncada\u2019s $25 million option Friday for the 2025 season and elected to go with a $5 million buyout instead. Moncada played just 12 games last season after suffering a left adductor strain, giving the nine-year veteran 208 appearances logged \u2014 or 69 on average \u2014 for the past three seasons with the White Sox.<\/p>\n<p>Moncada, the former No. 1 prospect in baseball, was traded from the Boston Red Sox \u2014 alongside pitcher Michael Kopech and minor leaguers Luis Alexander Basabe and Victor Diaz \u2014 to Chicago in 2016 in exchange for eight-time All-Star pitcher Chris Sale. Moncada was touted as the next big name thing for the Red Sox, projected to establish himself in Boston\u2019s infield but ultimately didn\u2019t stick around.<\/p>\n<p>The franchise had other ideas with then-prospect Rafael Devers on the rise in Boston\u2019s farm system, plus with Sale \u2014 an established ace-caliber arm \u2014 the Red Sox put together a star-studded rotation. Sale, Rick Porcello, the reigning American League Cy Young Award winner at the time, and David Price, the 2012 AL Cy Young Award recipient, joined forces and won the 2018 World Series together.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Chicago gave Moncada room and patience to develop but he failed to live up to the hype that stuck by his name when signed by the Red Sox in 2015 out of Cuba for $31.5 million \u2014 the largest ever given to an international free agent at the time.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Moncada\u2019s highlight campaign came in 2019 when he slashed .315\/.367\/.548 with a career-best 25 home runs, 34 doubles and 79 RBIs in 132 games. Chicago was impressed enough to lock Moncada to a five-year, $70 million extension the following offseason, just before Moncada\u2019s regression and injury struggles began to catch up to him. Still, Moncada\u2019s stock value \u2014 as is \u2014 should earn himself a big league spot elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>A veteran infielder with defensive versatility and reliability, Moncada might not have to wait too long in free agency until another organization takes him off the open market.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Red Sox prospect Yo\u00e1n Moncada joins the free agency market this offseason as the 29-year-old&#8217;s run with the White Sox reached its end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3619,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ex-Red Sox Prospect (Once Part Of Blockbuster Trade) Becomes Free Agent - 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