Chicago White Sox

Every MLB player the encyclopedia attributes to the Chicago White Soxfrom profile season records, grouped by position, first season to last. Coverage follows the encyclopedia’s per-era source depth.

Every position room Chicago White Sox has passed down, steadiest first. The DH room is their most stable — 5 holders across 54 years, a new one every 10.8 on average.

1. DH5 holders · 4 handoffs · 1973–2026 · one every 10.8y
   Brian Downing1973–1977→Harold Baines1980–2001→Frank Thomas1990–2005→Eloy Jiménez2019–2024→Andrew Benintendi2023–2026
2. C17 holders · 16 handoffs · 1901–2025 · one every 7.4y
   Billy Sullivan Sr.1901–1914→Ray Schalk1912–1928→Buck Crouse1923–1930→Luke Sewell1935–1938→Mike Tresh1938–1948→Sherm Lollar1952–1963→John Romano1958–1966→J.C. Martin1959–1967→Duane Josephson1965–1970→Ed Herrmann1967–1974→Jim Essian1976–1981→Carlton Fisk1981–1993→Ron Karkovice1986–1997→A.J. Pierzynski2005–2012→Tyler Flowers2009–2015→Omar Narváez2016–2025→Yasmani Grandal2020–2023
3. SS18 holders · 17 handoffs · 1902–2023 · one every 6.8y
   George Davis1902–1909→Lena Blackburne1910–1929→Buck Weaver1912–1920→Ernie Johnson1912–1923→Swede Risberg1917–1920→Bill Hunnefield1926–1930→Luke Appling1930–1950→Red Kress1932–1934→Chico Carrasquel1950–1955→Luis Aparicio1956–1970→Ron Hansen1963–1969→Bucky Dent1973–1976→Scott Fletcher1983–1991→Ozzie Guillen1985–1997→Jose Valentin2000–2004→Juan Uribe2004–2008→Alexei Ramirez2008–2015→Tim Anderson2016–2023
4. 3B22 holders · 21 handoffs · 1903–2026 · one every 5.6y
   Lee Tannehill1903–1912→Harry Lord1910–1914→Fred McMullin1916–1920→Willie Kamm1923–1931→Jimmy Dykes1933–1939→Floyd Baker1945–1951→George Kell1954–1956→Bubba Phillips1956–1959→Gene Freese1960–1966→Pete Ward1963–1969→Bill Melton1968–1975→Eric Soderholm1977–1979→Jim Morrison1979–1982→Vance Law1982–1984→Tim Hulett Sr.1983–1987→Robin Ventura1989–1998→Greg Norton1996–2000→Joe Crede2000–2008→Yolmer Sánchez2014–2020→Todd Frazier2016–2017→Yoán Moncada2017–2024→Miguel Vargas2024–2026
5. 2B22 holders · 21 handoffs · 1910–2026 · one every 5.3y
   Rollie Zeider1910–1913→Eddie Collins Sr.1915–1926→Bill Cissell1928–1932→Jackie Hayes1932–1940→Tony Piet1935–1937→Don Kolloway1940–1949→Cass Michaels1943–1954→Nellie Fox1950–1963→Al Weis1962–1967→Mike Andrews1971–1973→Jorge Orta1972–1979→Alan Bannister1976–1980→Tony Bernazard1981–1983→Julio Cruz1983–1986→Craig Grebeck1990–1995→Joey Cora1991–1994→Ray Durham1995–2002→Tony Phillips1996–1997→Tony Graffanino2000–2003→Tadahito Iguchi2005–2007→Gordon Beckham2009–2015→Lenyn Sosa2022–2026
6. 1B24 holders · 23 handoffs · 1901–2025 · one every 5.2y
   Frank Isbell1901–1909→Jiggs Donahue1904–1909→Chick Gandil1910–1919→Jack Fournier1912–1917→Earl Sheely1921–1927→Bud Clancy1924–1930→Zeke Bonura1934–1937→Joe Kuhel1938–1947→Eddie Robinson1950–1952→Walt Dropo1955–1958→Earl Torgeson1957–1961→Roy Sievers1960–1961→Tom McCraw1963–1970→Bill Skowron1964–1967→Dick Allen1972–1974→Lamar Johnson1974–1981→Mike Squires1975–1985→Jim Spencer1976–1977→Greg Walker1982–1990→Paul Konerko1999–2014→Jim Thome2006–2009→José Abreu2014–2022→Gavin Sheets2021–2024→Andrew Vaughn2021–2025

+2 more rooms with a shorter average hold.

Room tenures, not starting jobs — the corpus has no per-season depth chart, so holders can overlap (a successor often arrives before his predecessor leaves) and the measure is how often the room changed hands. A holder is a player who produced real value for this club during his years here, which is what separates holding the room from being on the roster. Detected from per-season VAL (1901–2026 here; league coverage is complete from 1999) — rooms the corpus cannot value are not shown.