Andrew Benintendi was a strange candidate for any team’s franchise-record candidate, and Benintendi admitted as much during his introduction to Chicago at Rate Field after signing a five-year, $75 million contract with the White Sox in December 2022.
There were all sorts of reasons why, but chief among them was that Benintendi had hit just five homers over 126 games the year before, most of them spent with the Royals. He’d hit 17 in the first of his two seasons in Kansas City, but not without other production stats taking a hit, and he told those assembled at then-Guaranteed Rate Field’s Conference and Learning Center that Kauffman Stadium felt more rewarding as an all-fields type.
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