{"id":123116,"date":"2026-05-30T01:12:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T05:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=123116"},"modified":"2026-05-30T01:12:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T05:12:37","slug":"white-sox-call-up-infielder-jacob-gonzalez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2026\/05\/30\/white-sox-call-up-infielder-jacob-gonzalez\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: White Sox Call Up Infielder Gonzalez After Murakami Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago White Sox are calling up infield prospect <a  target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=gonzal006jac&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-05-30_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jacob Gonzalez<\/a> for what would be his major league debut, according to ESPN&#8217;s Jeff Passan. The news comes after rookie <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2026\/04\/01\/munetaka-murakami-new-japanese-sensation-mlb\/\" target=\"_self\">Japanese sensation Munetaka Murakami<\/a> suffered a hamstring strain on Friday night, forcing him to leave the game. White Sox manager <a  target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/managers\/venabwi01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Will Venable<\/a> said that the injury will likely keep <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/murakmu01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-05-30_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Murakami<\/a> out for at least two weeks, meaning an IL stint is likely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\"><smartframe-embed class=\"smartframe_wp_element\" customer-id=\"b0c95bc04383cef69c6b47df872135cf\" image-id=\"WmOBdNTPQf0L\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; max-width: 3000px; aspect-ratio: 3000\/2032;\" ><\/smartframe-embed><\/p>\n<h2>Report: White Sox Calling Up Jacob Gonzalez<\/h2>\n<p>Gonzalez, who turns 24 on Saturday, is currently the No. 23 prospect in the White Sox system, per <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/milb\/prospects\/whitesox\/jacob-gonzalez-694378\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MLB Pipeline<\/a>. He was the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2023\/07\/10\/mlb-draft-first-round\/\" target=\"_self\">15th overall pick<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2023\/06\/10\/jacob-gonzalez-draft-profile\/\" target=\"_self\">2023 MLB Draft<\/a> out of Ole Miss, winning a College World Series title with the Rebels in 2022. At 6&#8242; 2&#8243; and 205 lbs, Gonzalez bats left-handed and throws right-handed. Primarily a shortstop, he has also seen time at second base. He is on fire at Triple-A Charlotte this season, slashing .308\/.414\/.646 with 18 home runs and 58 RBI in 51 games. Those 18 homers alone account for over half of his career minor league total of 35.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Chicago White Sox are calling up infielder Jacob Gonzalez, sources tell ESPN. With Munetaka Murakami facing a multi-week absence due to a hamstring injury, the White Sox summon one of the hottest hitters in the minor leagues, batting .308\/.414\/.646 with 18 homers in 51 games.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) <a  href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JeffPassan\/status\/2060555326726819968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 30, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Murakami Hurt<\/h2>\n<p>Murakami suffered a hamstring injury while <a  href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/boog00\/status\/2060552184861716991\/video\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">running out a ground ball<\/a> in the third inning against the Detroit Tigers. While he beat out the throw to avoid a double play, he grabbed at his thigh and grimaced on the way back to first base, leading the training staff to come out and decide to pull him from the game.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Will Venable shared that Munetaka Murakami will miss a couple weeks with a hamstring strain: <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3RKMs8LKYT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/3RKMs8LKYT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 White Sox on CHSN (@CHSN_WhiteSox) <a  href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CHSN_WhiteSox\/status\/2060554026807177594?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 30, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old first baseman has burst onto the scene with the South Siders, slashing .242\/.381\/.566 while also slugging 20 home runs to lead the American League. His 41 RBI also lead the Junior Circuit. While the initial prognosis is a two-week timeline, Chicago will likely exercise some caution as Murakami rehabs his injury, as a strain can easily be re-aggravated. Since he&#8217;s provided such a power surge and contributed to a winning record for the White Sox, who&#8217;ve been basement dwellers for the last few years, there&#8217;s no such thing as too careful.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credit: \u00a9 Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago White Sox are calling up infield prospect Jacob Gonzalez for what would be his major league debut, according to ESPN&#8217;s Jeff Passan. The news comes after rookie Japanese sensation Munetaka Murakami suffered a hamstring strain on Friday night, forcing him to leave the game. White Sox manager Will Venable said that the injury [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3931,"featured_media":123122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,926,1071,35],"tags":[6396,29170,28796],"class_list":["post-123116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whitesox","category-milb","category-mlb","category-news","tag-jacob-gonzalez","tag-munetaka-murakami","tag-will-venable"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3931"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123116"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123123,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123116\/revisions\/123123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}