Wes Benjamin, the lefthanded pitcher who broke camp with the Texas Rangers in 2021, has signed a minor league contract with the Chicago White Sox, it was announced.
Benjamin, 28, was a fifth round pick out of the Rangers in 2014 out of the University of Kansas. Benjamin missed much of the 2014 college season, and almost all of 2015, due to Tommy John surgery, though once he was healthy he made a slow but steady climb up the organizational ladder.
Benjamin seemed like an organizational soldier type for much of his time in the Rangers’ organization — he was a high makeup guy who knew how to pitch, but whose stuff wasn’t good enough to get him on the prospect map.