Fansided · Nov 21, 2019
White Sox make phenomenal move signing Yasmani Grandal
The Chicago White Sox made a phenomenal addition on Thursday afternoon by signing Yasmani Grandal to a four-year, $73 million deal.
As per the agreement, the catcher will be due $18.25 million in each of the next four seasons from 2020-2023.
In 2019, Grandal hit .246/.380/.468 with 28 home runs and 77 RBI to give himself a 121 wRC+ and 5.2 fWAR as detailed by FanGraphs.
That fWAR ranked second among catchers in all of baseball and only 0.5 behind J.T. Realmuto for the top spot.