White Sox Acquire Minor-League Catcher Korey Lee from Houston in Exchange for Pitcher Kendall Graveman
CHICAGO — The Chicago White Sox have acquired minor-league catcher Korey Lee, the №5 prospect in the Houston Astros organization, in exchange for right-handed pitcher Kendall Graveman.
Lee, who turned 25 on Tuesday, is hitting .283/.328/.406 (80–283) with 18 doubles, five home runs, 32 RBI, 37 runs scored and 12 stolen bases over 68 games this season with Class AAA Sugar Land in the Pacific Coast League. He currently is on the injured list with a strained right oblique.
Lee, 6-foot-2 and 210 pounds, is a career .264/.330/.433 (327–1,240) hitter with 44 home runs, 181 RBI and 193 runs scored in 324 games over four seasons (2019, ’21–23) in Houston’s minor-league system.
He also appeared in 12 games with the Astros in 2022, going 4–25 (.160) with four RBI in 12 games. Lee made his major-league debut on July 1, 2022 vs. the Angels and recorded his first three hits on July 10 at Oakland as part of a 3–4, three-RBI effort.
Lee was selected by Houston in the first round (32nd overall) of the 2019 First-Year Player Draft out of the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a teammate of White Sox first baseman Andrew Vaughn.
Graveman, 33, is 3–4 with a 3.48 ERA (17 ER/44.0 IP), 42 strikeouts, eight holds and eight saves over 45 appearances this season, his second with the White Sox. He was signed by the Sox as a free agent on November 30, 2021.
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