The Chicago White Sox gained right-hander Lance Lynn in an exchange with the Texas Rangers early Tuesday morning, sources told ESPN, supporting their turn with a veteran who drove the significant groups in innings pitched for the current year.
Lynn, 33, was maybe the most valued pitcher on the exchange market and cost the White Sox 25-year-old right-hander Dane Dunning, who will go to Texas alongside left-gave pitching prospect Avery Weems, sources said.
Chicago had focused on a beginning pitcher to go with the new Lucas Giolito and previous Cy Young champ Dallas Keuchel, both of whom dominated this previous season as the White Sox showed up since 2008.
The White Sox had been talking about a Sonny Gray arrangement with the Cincinnati Reds yet rotated toward Lynn. In spite of the fact that they lost their trump card arrangement to Oakland, the White Sox, with a youthful center that encompasses ruling American League MVP Jose Abreu, hope to enter 2021 as the AL Central top picks.
With one year and $8 million leftover on his agreement, Lynn was a cost-effective choice that the Rangers, who are reconstructing, utilized into a pitcher in Dunning who appeared this season in the wake of recuperating from Tommy John medical procedure and seemed as though he could form into a mid-turn sturdy.
In 2020, Lynn was more. Until a helpless last beginning swelled his ERA by more than 75% of a point, he was the top choice to complete second in AL Cy Young democratic behind the consistent champ, Shane Bieber.
In 84 innings, Lynn struck out 89 players, strolled 25 and held hitters to a .204 batting normal. He did, in any case, permit 13 grand slams, a number that was disturbing, taking into account that he pitched at the Rangers’ extensive Globe Life Field.
Opening a pitcher of Lynn’s caliber behind Giolito and Keuchel is by the by an overthrow for the White Sox, who keep on looking for hostile assistance with an arrangement that incorporates Abreu, Tim Anderson, Yoan Moncada, Yasmani Grandal, Luis Robert and Eloy Jimenez, among others.
Chicago has looked for left-gave outfield bats on the free-specialist market, sources said.