The White Sox are signing outfielder to a minor league deal, reports . The Ballengee Group client elected free agency earlier this week after being outrighted by the Pirates. Palacios, 29, has bounced around the majors in the past few years. He has suited up for the Blue Jays, Nationals and Pirates in the four most recent big league seasons. Broadly speaking, he has hit well in the minors without finding succe s in the majors. He has been sent Craig Biggio Jersey to the plate 433 times thus far in his big league career, with a .230/.286/.364 line in those. That translates to a wRC+ of 75, indicating hes been 25% below league average overall. He also took 781 minor league plate appearances in that 2021-24 span with a .303/.387/.484 line and 131 wRC+. The gap between his major and minor league numbers has led to him frequently being sent to the farm and back. He exhausted his final option year in 2024 and is now out of options, which got him squeezed off Pittsburghs 40-man. If he puts together another good minor league showing with the White Sox, they should be able to give him some big league playing time later in the year. Their outfield mix currently consists of , , , and . All of those players should be available in midseason trade talks, as they all have fairly narrow windows of control on a White Sox team that isnt expecting to compete in the near term. A suming some of those players do indeed get traded in the coming months, the White Sox have a bunch of guys who could pick up some of the playing time. is on the 40-man roster but currently on optional a signment. Guys like , , and have been bumped from the 40-man but are still in the system as non-roster depth. Palacios will join that latter group of guys and will try to earn his way back to the majors. Photo courtesy of Kim Klement Neitzel, Imagn Images Ronel Blanco Jersey