MLB: White Sox hire outfielder, son of 1995 World Series champion

The Chicago White Sox sign outfielder Dwight Smith Jr.. with a minor league contract. It will be the fourth major league organization for Smith, who is represented by Wasserman.

Son of former Major League Baseball outfielder and champion with the Atlanta Braves of the 1995 World Series, Dwight Smiththe young Smith was the 53rd overall pick -first round- of the draft by the Toronto Blue Jays in 2011:

He ranked 14th and 28th among Jays prospects each season from 2012-16, according to Baseball America, and the 6-foot-1, 210-pound Smith hit the ground running in his first major league looks.

In a small sample of 104 plate appearances between 2017 and 2018, he hit .294/.365/.467 and earned his spot on the team’s outfield combination. That performance helped prompt the Baltimore Orioles to trade for Smith in a deal that sent international bonus allocations back to Toronto.

In 2019, Smith’s first season with the O’s, he saw a career-high 392 plate appearances over the course of 101 games. He got off to another strong start in Baltimore, beginning the year with an eight-game hitting streak and a bountiful .286/.333/.510 batting line with eight home runs, nine doubles and four stolen bases in his first 159 trips. to the plate

Smith seemed like a good low-cost option at the time, but his bat withered as the season went on. From May 15 through the end of the season, he hit just .210/.273/.343 in 233 plate appearances, and his slash of .222/.306/.365 in 72 plate appearances in 2020 it wasn’t much better.

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Smith was designated for assignment by Baltimore in August 2020 and was unclaimed on waivers. He was moved directly to the team’s alternate site in the pandemic-shortened season and became a minor league free agent at the end of the season.

Raphael Martinez

I am a fan of the King of Sports, especially the Boston Red Sox in MLB and all Mexican baseball in general. This profession has given me the opportunity to cover major events such as the Caribbean Series, LMB All Star, LMP (uninterruptedly since 2009), signatures of important players. I had the chance to attend the 2013 World Classic in Arizona, USA, although as a fan. Apart from this beautiful sport, I love basketball, where I have also narrated games and even an NBA friendly 10 years ago, but I have baseball in my veins. Degree in Communication Sciences from the Autonomous University of Sinaloa (UAS) , from which I graduated in 2011. I was born in Mazatlán, Sinaloa and started in the world of sports journalism in 2004 in the newspaper El Sol de Mazatlán, where I was a baseball columnist and a reporter at the same time. In January 2009 I arrived at El Debate as a journalist reporter and it was almost six years (in the first stage), until in November 2014 I emigrated to the radio providing my services at Línea Directa-Grupo RSN. My cycle there ended in July 2019 and a few days later, El Debate gave me another opportunity to work and opened the doors for me again. This is how I came to Al Bat, where I have been since 2019 as a web journalist.

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