Tiervermittlung Schweiz » CHICAGO (AP) — Eloy Jimenez is coming.

He might not break camp with the Chicago White Sox http://www.athleticsfanproshop.com/authentic-khris-davis-jersey , but it sure sounds as if he will make his anticipated major league debut very soon.He isn’t exactly shying away from the hype, either.“Just be one of the best players in the league. That is my expectation,” Jimenez said.While the White Sox await word on the free-agent destinations for Manny Machado and Bryce Harper, they think one of the game’s next great sluggers is just about ready for life on the South Side.Jimenez might start the season with Triple-A Charlotte — possibly staying long enough to create another year of contractual control — but he probably won’t be there for very long.“We think the world of Eloy. We think the world of his future,” general manager Rick Hahn said Friday before the start of the team’s annual fan convention.It’s easy to see why.The 22-year-old Jimenez hit .317 with 10 homers and 42 RBIs with Double-A Birmingham last year before he was promoted to Charlotte. He was even better with the Knights, batting .355 with 12 homers and 33 RBIs in 55 games.While Jimenez was bashing minor league pitching, Chicago went 62-100 in its sixth consecutive losing season. Jimenez said he thinks he is ready for the majors right now, but he knows it’s not his decision.“I don’t want to rush my time,” he said through a translator. “I don’t want to rush my development process. When the moment comes, I’m going to be there. And I’m going to be ready to do my best.”The 6-foot-4, 205-pound Jimenez began his professional career with the crosstown Cubs, signing as an international free agent in 2013. Jimenez and right-hander Dylan Cease, another top prospect, were acquired by the White Sox in the July 2017 trade that moved veteran left-hander Jose Quintana to the North Side.The rare deal between Windy City teams will be hotly debated for years to come, but Jimenez is focused on potential areas of improvement.“I’ve been working on my defense,” the outfielder said. “I want to be a complete player Reggie Jackson Jersey , like not just hitting, I want to play defense, too. Because I don’t want to hit DH.”Jimenez also has been working on his strength and conditioning after being hampered by injuries. He was slowed by patella tendinitis in his left knee and a mild pectoral strain at the start of last season.Jimenez attributed some of the injuries to bad luck.“I don’t know. It’s just something happens,” he said. “I’ve been working hard every year. And I can’t control that. When I’m healthy, I try to do my best.” NEW YORK (AP) — Didi Gregorius was quick when asked if he had a date in mind for his return from a torn elbow ligament.“April,” he blurted.Then he smiled, laughed and added: “We all know that’s not going to happen, but that’s what I want to do. It’s a wait and see ’til everything is cleared, everything is ready to go.”The New York Yankees shortstop tore the ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow while making a throw from left field after a ball bounced off Fenway Park’s Green Monster during Game 2 of the AL Division Series last Oct. 6. He had surgery 11 days later and had a checkup this week.Yankees general manager Brian Cashman says he expects Gregorius back sometime in the summer but has not been more specific.New York added DJ LeMahieu and Troy Tulowitzki to shore up its infield, moves Gregorius thinks improved the roster. Gregorius wasn’t concerned the Yankees would sign a high-priced free agent such as Manny Machado, who plays shortstop and third.“If he comes over, he makes the team better,” Gregorius said Wednesday.Gregorius spoke before the annual Thurman Munson Awards dinner, also attended by Yankees manager Aaron Boone and third baseman Miguel Andujar. Boone doesn’t expect any more moves before the team reports to spring training on Feb. 13.“He’s such a dynamic player for us on both sides of the ball, such a reliable player for us at such an important position,” Boone said http://www.athleticsfanproshop.com/authentic-khris-davis-jersey , “but hopefully we’ll do our best to hold serve and then look forward to getting a really good player back at some point in the summer.”Gregorius turns 29 on Feb. 18, when he will be at spring training in Tampa, Florida, and thinks “hopefully next week I start doing some throwing exercises.”He has no intention of returning as a designated hitter if he can hit before the elbow is ready for a return to the field.“I want to be back completely,” he said. “I just want to make sure everything’s all right before I go out there. I haven’t even thought about hitting before everything.”Gregorius immediately realized the severity of the injury, saying he instantly spoke up: “I think my arm is done.'”Still, he finished the series, which Boston won in four games.“If you have a strong mind, I think you can play through anything,” he said. “I know I didn’t have much strength left, so I played the best that I could.”Andujar also said he would be happy for New York to add Machado. Andujar’s defense was rated 14 runs below average last season by Fangraphs, worst among the 19 players who appeared most often in the major leagues at third base last year,“There’s room for improvement and the team asked me to focus on that area, which I did this offseason, so I feel really good about where I’m going to be at defensively this year,” Andujar said through a translator. “A lot of agility and coordination drills and a lot of drills focused on first step.”Boone played down comments of Yankees right fielder Aaron Judge Glenn Hubbard Jersey , who jocularly told TMZ he would be willing to shift positions if the Yankees signed Bryce Harper, a move New York has shown no interest in. Boone said adding Harper wasn’t realistic.“I think that was Judgy just having some fun at the Super Bowl,” Boone said. “Judgy would do a lot of things for the team.”Boone had not expected Harper and Machado to remain unsigned this close to spring training.“If you would have asked me to start, I probably would have thought they’d landed at some point before now, but you never know the twists and turns that an offseason takes,” he said.Boone envisions Tulowitzki, injured much of the past two years, will play shortstop regularly but will need days off. Second baseman Gleyber Torres can shift to shortstop on those days and LeMahieu could start at second.“It allows us to really have kind of a 10-, 11-man rotation for nine spots,” he said.Catcher Gary Sanchez, recovering from left shoulder surgery on Nov. 8, hit in a batting cage Wednesday at Tampa and is likely to be hitting on the field when workouts begin Feb. 14.“We may slow play him a little bit the first week of Grapefruit League games,” Boone said.