The Chicago White Sox are highly likely to trade pitcher Garrett Crochet this offseason. Any team that wants him, however, is going to have to pay up.
The White Sox are looking for a significant package of prospects in Crochet trade talks, according to Buster Olney of ESPN. Their expectation is that at least one of the prospects is a high-ceiling player, preferably a position player and not a pitcher.
The team is not completely locked in on that preference, however, and would be open to a pitcher as the main piece of the rest of the prospect package is good enough in their eyes.
There are definitely advantages to trading for Crochet despite the cost in prospects. He has two years of team control remaining, though it is likely to assume that any team that trades for him would be prepared to sign him long-term. At 25, he is also younger than top free-agent targets would be, and is fresh off a season that saw him strike out 209 batters in just 146 innings of work.
One big-market team has already been linked to a potential Crochet acquisition.