Stiever Optioned to Knights…
In one of the first moves of the 2023 spring season for the Chicago White Sox, the team optioned RHP Jonathan Stiever to the Charlotte Knights on March 5.
Stiever, who is currently ranked as the #23 prospect in the Chicago White Sox system, as rated by MLB Pipeline, missed most of the 2022 season. He underwent season-ending surgery on his right lat on 8/23/21.
Stiever made it back before the end of the 2022 season and began a Major League Baseball Rehab Assignment with the Charlotte Knights on September 21. In a start that night against the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp, Stiever tossed a scorleess inning for the Knights. He went on to make two more appearances (one more start) before the end of the season, and did not allow a hit or a run in three innings of work.
MORE ON STIEVER
The 25-year-old spent the majority of the 2021 season with the Charlotte Knights and posted a 5–5 record with a 5.84 ERA in 17 games (all starts) over 74.0 innings pitched. He also made one appearance with the Chicago White Sox in 2021 (April 25 vs. Texas).
DRAFT CLASS
A native of Cedarburg, WI, Stiever was selected by the White Sox in the fifth round of the June 2018 First-Year Player Draft.
PROSPECT LIST
He entered the 2021 season ranked by Baseball America as the number seven prospect in the White Sox system and entered 2022 ranked by the same publication as the number 13 prospect in the system.
