Married Maira López...Played for Cuba in 2018 U-15 World Cup.
2024
Baseball America after hitting .280/.366/.463 (98-for-350) with 16 doubles, 16 home runs and 70 RBI in 98 games with Class AA Birmingham and Class AAA Charlotte...Was selected to the Southern League All-Star Team…ranked among the SL catching leaders (min. 200 PA) in average (third, .275), home runs (fourth, 12), slugging percentage (fourth, .463), OPS (fourth, .823), RBI (fifth, 53) and on-base percentage (fifth, .360) despite playing in only 72 games...Slashed .346/.422/.603 (27-for-78) with 11 home runs from the right side of the plate and .261/.349/.423 (71-for-272) with five homers from the left side...Played 75 games at catcher (51 with the Barons and 24 with the Knights)…caught 634.2 innings...Began the season with Birmingham and led the Barons pitching staff to a 3.15 ERA , the second-lowest mark among Class AA teams…worked with RHPs Drew Thorpe and Jairo Iriarte and LHPs Ky Bush and Jake Eder, who all made their Major League debuts with the White Sox during the season...Batted .279 (19-for-68) with three doubles, five home runs and a monthly best 21 RBI over 20 games in April…homered twice with a season-high five RBI on 4/12 at Rocket City…homered again on 4/13 at the Trash Pandas...Recorded a seven-game hitting streak from 4/16-23, going 9-for-22 (.409) with two doubles, a homer and six RBI...Batted .356/.414/.600 (32-for-90) with seven doubles, five homers and 14 RBI over 25 games in June…posted eight consecutive multi-hit efforts from 6/1-9...Compiled a season-high, 14-game hitting from 5/30-6/14, slashing .463/.525/.741 (25-for-54) with four home runs and 12 RBI....Was named SL Player of the Week for the period of 6/3-9 after hitting .619 (13-for-21) with two doubles, three home runs, five RBI and six multi-hit efforts in six games...Collected a career-high five hits on 6/18 vs. Montgomery, going 5-for-5 with two doubles and three RBI...Was promoted to Charlotte on 7/4…made his Knights debut that day vs. Jacksonville, hitting a two-run home run…went 3-for-4 with a double and three RBI on 7/27 at Nashville...Hit safely in eight straight games from 7/31-8/10, batting .484 (15-for-31) with two doubles, three homers and eight RBI...Was placed on the injured list on 8/13 with a lower back strain … was reinstated on 9/19 and played in three games the rest of the season...Was part of the White Sox taxi squad for the last two weeks of the season...Preseason Rankings: No. 4 (MLB.com) and No. 5 prospect (BA) in the White Sox organization...No. 9 catching prospect in baseball (MLB.com).
2023
Combined to hit .255/.380/.351 (94-for-368) with 17 doubles, six home runs, 57 RBI, 52 runs scored and 72 walks over 101 games between Class AA Rocket City (Angels) and Class AA Birmingham (White Sox)...Batted .340/.454/.443 (36-for-106) with eight doubles, one home run and 20 RBI from the right side of the plate...Turned 20 on Opening Night (4/6) vs. Chattanooga...Entered the season as the third-youngest player in the Southern League...All 455 of his plate appearances during the season came against older pitchers...Slashed .322/.474/.424 (19-for-59) with six doubles and 12 RBI over 16 games in April...Scored four runs on 4/13 vs. Rocket City...Posted a seven-game hitting streak from 4/16-26 (.440, 11-25)...Went 3-for-5 with two doubles and two RBI on 4/18 vs. Biloxi...Was selected to the American League team at the All-Star Futures Game, going 0-for-3 at Seattle's T-Mobile Park...Was acquired from the Angels on 7/26 with LHP Ky Bush in exchange for RHPs Lucas Giolito and Reynaldo López...Made his Barons debut on 7/28 at Biloxi...Batted .313/.395/.478 (21-for-67) with three homers and 18 RBI over 18 games in August...Drove in a run in nine of 10 games to start the month, including seven straight from 8/1-9...Reached base safely in 19 straight games from 7/26-8/23, including a career-best, 14-game hitting streak from 7/29-8/18 (.377, 20-for-53)...Recorded his first career multi-homer game on 8/15 vs. Chattanooga, including a game-ending, two-run shot in the 10th inning...His streak of reaching base safely in each of his first 18 games with the Barons ended on 8/25 at Rocket City...Entered the season ranked by Baseball America as the Angels No. 4 prospect and No. 89 overall prospect in baseball.
2022
Named Angels Minor League Player of the Year and Most Valuable Player of California League after spending entire season at Low-A Inland Empire... Selected as catcher for California League All-Star Team in a vote cast by Cal League managers and was also named by MiLB.com as Angels Organization All-Star... Ranked among California League leaders in doubles (35; T1st), extra-base hits (54; second), total bases (219; third), hits (129; fourth), home runs (sixth; 17), RBI (75; sixth), walks (73; ninth) and runs (86; ninth)... During a 70 game stretch from May 28 - Sept. 2, hit .360 (96/267) with 28 doubles, one triple, 14 home runs, 56 RBI and 12 stolen bases... Behind the plate, caught 25% (29/116) of would-be base stealers.
