The White Sox are still looking for help behind the plate at the big-league level, but they’ve made a move to deepen the catching mix in Triple-A by signing veteran Eric Haase.
Haase joined the Knights on Tuesday, the team announced on X. He brings plenty of American League Central familiarity with him, having spent six seasons in the division with Cleveland and Detroit.
The 2026 season started in San Francisco for Haase, but that stay ended quickly. He was designated for assignment on July 17 after hitting .162/.235/.365 in 84 plate appearances, then was released by the Giants on the 23rd.
His numbers with Milwaukee in 2025 were in the same neighborhood, though a touch better, over 77 plate appearances. Before that, his last stretch of league-average or better offense came in 2024, when he put up a 123 OPS+ in a brief run with the Brewers.
Haase has shown more pop in earlier seasons. In 2022, he hit 14 home runs and 17 doubles, and in 2021 he launched 22 homers. One of those 2021 blasts was an inside-the-park home run that Sox fans may remember because it came after a Billy Hamilton near-miss on a diving attempt.
In Charlotte, Haase takes Edgar Quero’s spot and is expected to share time with Michael Turner and Korey Lee. None of the three Knights catchers are on the Sox’ 40-man roster, which leaves Haase in position to be the next option if either Quero or Drew Romo gets hurt before the Sox add a presumed catcher at the deadline.
For now, he’ll try to rediscover the form he showed earlier in the decade at hitter-friendly Truist Field.
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