With the season being delayed and baseball going into hibernation for the foreseeable future due to COVID-19, the Chicago White Sox decided to option a few players on the roster bubble including a pair of backstops in Zack Collins and Yermin Mercedes as reported by Vinnie Duber of NBC Sports Chicago.
Neither one was going to make the team starting at a position in 2020, but either one, or even both, could have made very solid role players and bench pieces.
Collins, 25, had a very impressive spring that saw him hit .