Especially privately, but often publicly as well, White Sox employees have been upfront about the swing-and-miss risk present in their marquee free-agent signing Munetaka Murakami.
The story of the former NPB triple crown winner and two-time MVP coming to a rebuilding White Sox team is inextricable from his contact profile (28.6 percent strikeout, 63.9 percent contact rates last year) scaring off more moneyed offers than the two years, $34 million that he ultimately accepted. The team’s belief in the project is dual-pronged — that the Sox rebuild can mostly shrug it off if Murakami fails, and that their hitting infrastructure can oversee his transition to MLB pitching.
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