AL Central: The Chicago catching conundrum
Feb 26 2026
Most MLB teams and fantasy managers find themselves worrying about having enough catchers; the White Sox have the opposite problem, with three viable major-league catchers currently on their projected roster, and the added wrinkle that the catcher most likely to be the odd man out, Korey Lee, is out of options.
Kyle Teel and Edgar Quero were still splitting time behind the plate last September, with Teel getting 64% of the starts (he's considered better defensively than Quero), Quero getting 32%, and Lee picking up one start. Whoever wasn't catching between Teel and Quero often started at DH, and there were four CHW games against a left-handed SP; the lefty Teel sat for three of those. All of that seems to line up with...
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