White Sox name Jin Wong Assistant General Manager

CHICAGO – The Chicago White Sox have named longtime baseball executive Jin Wong as the organization’s new assistant general manager, reporting to senior vice president/general manager Chris Getz.

Wong spent the previous 24 seasons (2000-23) with the Kansas City Royals organization, including the last two as vice president/assistant general manager under executive vice president and general manager J.J. Piccollo. Wong played an integral role in building the Royals’ back-to-back American League pennant-winning clubs in 2014-15, including the World Series championship in 2015.

Among his responsibilities, Wong will oversee contract negotiations, salary arbitration, budgeting and payroll management, and compliance with Major League Baseball rules and regulations, including the collective bargaining agreement.

During his tenure in Kansas City’s front office, Wong negotiated a number of key player contracts, including multi-year deals with Zack Greinke (2009), Joakim Soria (2009, ‘16), Billy Butler (2011), Alcides Escobar (2012), Salvador Pérez (2012, ’17, ‘22), Kelvin Herrera (2015), Eric Hosmer (2015), Yordano Ventura (2015), Lorenzo Cain (2016), Alex Gordon (2016), Mike Moustakas (2016) and Danny Duffy (2017).

Wong’s previous roles with the Royals include assistant general manager of baseball administration (2015-21), director of baseball administration (2006-14), director of baseball operations (2004-05), manager of baseball operations (2002-03), manager of scouting operations (2001-02) and scouting operations coordinator (2000). His professional career began in 1997 with the Atlanta Braves.

Wong graduated in 1997 from the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Va., where he was a Division III All-American in baseball in 1996. He and his wife, Libby, have two children, sons Kai (12) and Tate (10).