The Chicago White Sox are signing All-Star shortstop and former Madeira High School standout Andrew Benintendi to a five-year, $75 million deal, according to multiple reports.
Benintendi’s Major League Baseball All-Star appearance with the Kansas City Royals earlier this year was the first of his seven-season MLB career. In July, he was traded by the Royals to the New York Yankees for minor leaguers Chandler Champlain, TJ Sikema and Beck Way. He became a free agent at the end of the season.
Benintendi is one of 11 players on MLB rosters from Greater Cincinnati high schools, the University of Cincinnati or Xavier University.
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Between the Royals and Yankees, Benintendi hit .304 with five homers and 51 RBI in 521 plate appearances last season. He hit .276 with 17 homers and 73 RBI in 2021 and won his first career Gold Glove.
In February 2021, shortly after Benintendi was traded from the Boston Red Sox to the Royals in a three-team trade that also included the New York Mets, the Miami Herald’s Barry Jackson and Craig Misch reported that the Miami Marlins could land Benintendi. three-team deal, but chose instead to sign former Cincinnati Reds shortstop Adam Duvall.
Benintendi hit .273 with 51 homers and 260 RBI over his first five MLB seasons. He finished second to the Yankees’ Aaron Judge in the 2017 American League Rookie of the Year voting.
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