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White Sox prospect Anderson Comas comes out as gay

White Sox minor league pitcher Anderson Comas publicly came out as gay on Sunday. The 23-year-old made the announcement in a personal Instagram post.

“I’m doing this cause I wanna be an inspiration for those like me out there fighting (sic) for their dreams,” Comas wrote. “Please don’t listen to those stupid things that people say about us, fight for your dreams, believe in yourself and go for it.”

Shortly after the post was made, the White Sox tweeted a statement of back from Chris Getz, the team’s assistant general manager of player development.

“Anderson first shared his news with us last year,” Getz said. “And I was very pleased that he was comfortable sharing with us in player development. I also was happy at the reaction across the organization, which as you would anticipate was to support, support and congratulate a teammate. With his social media post today, we all are so proud of Anderson and that he is comfortable sharing such an important personal part of his life so openly.”

Comas, who got his start as an outfielder for the White Sox in 2017, converted to pitcher last season. During his 2022 campaign with the Arizo

White Sox Update: Anderson on Abreu, Andrus, Garcia, Benintendi

Today was the first time of full-team workouts for the White Sox, as pitchers and catchers officially reported to camp last week. With Spring Development now completely underway for the White Sox, here are some of the storylines you may contain missed.

Pedro Grifol discusses backup infielder role following Andrus signing

This afternoon, the Colorless Sox made their one-year, $3M deal with Elvis Andrus official, which raised the question: what does the team plan to do with their backup infielder position?

In past seasons, the answer has often been Leury Garcia. However, because of the novel regime’s vast praise for Romy Gonzalez, manager Pedro Grifol was rather non-committal towards both Garcia and the overall backup infielder job in general.

Grifol: "I've seen Leury play for a while. Leury's a talented player. I haven't spoken to him yet. But for the most part everybody's competing here, other than our main guys. This is spring training, I get it. But there is some competition." (2/2)
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