White Sox reliever unexpectedly retires from baseball at age 28

Chicago White Sox v New York Yankees | Ishika Samant/GettyImagesTuesday was a busy day across Major League Baseball, and specifically for the Chicago White Sox. The club added two players to the 40-man roster to protect them from the Rule 5 draft and announced a pair of trades. Lost among the shuffle was the White Sox announcement that they placed LHP Fraser Ellard on the Voluntary Retirement list, ending his professional baseball career after just two big league seasons.

Ellard, 28, was drafted by the White Sox in the 8th round of the 2021 draft out of Liberty University. A college senior at the time he was drafted, Ellard moved quickly through the White Sox farm system. He appeared in 11…