White Sox and Mike Clevinger agree to terms on one-year contract

CHICAGO – The Chicago White Sox and free agent right-handed pitcher Mike Clevinger have agreed to terms on a one-year, $12-million contract, which includes a mutual option for the 2024 season.

Under terms of the agreement, Clevinger will receive $8 million in 2023, with a mutual $12-million option for 2024 that includes a $4-million buyout.

Clevinger, 31, went 7-7 with a 4.33 ERA (55 ER/114.1 IP), .233 (102-437) opponents average and 91 strikeouts over 23 appearances (22 starts) with San Diego in 2022. He missed the first month of the season with a sprained right knee suffered during spring training. From May 17 through August 1, Clevinger posted a 3-3 record with a 2.81 ERA (16 ER/51.1 IP) and 49 strikeouts in 10 games (nine starts).

The 6-foot-4, 215-pound Clevinger has gone 51-30 with a 3.39 ERA (247 ER/656.2 IP), .222 (538-2,420) opponents average and 694 strikeouts (9.51 per 9.0 IP) in 128 games (114 starts) over seven seasons in the major leagues with Cleveland (2016-20) and the Padres (2020-22). Among major-league pitchers with at least 650.0 IP since 2016, he ranks 11th in ERA and opponents average. Clevinger missed the entire 2021 season after undergoing Tommy John surgery in November 2020.

Clevinger has appeared in five of the last seven postseasons (2016-18, ’20, ’22), and was a member of Cleveland’s American League pennant-winning club in 2016.

Clevinger, a native of Jacksonville, Fla., originally was selected by the Angels in the fourth round of the 2011 draft out of Seminole State College of Florida. He will wear uniform No. 52 with Chicago.

With the move, the White Sox 40-man roster increases to 36.