Chicago White Sox Roster

Major League Baseball teams carry a 25-man active roster for most of the regular season. They are allowed a 40-man roster in the offseason, but by opening day they must submit a 25-player list. On September 1st, the active roster maximum returns to 40, though playoff rosters are limited to 25. A team must carry a minimum of 24 active players at all times.http://indians.scout.com/2/569136.html

Injured players can be placed on the 15- or 60-day disabled list, where they are not counted against the active roster. A player must be certified as injured by a doctor to be placed on either list. A team can place a player on the DL retroactive to the day after the last game he played up to ten days. Players coming off the disabled list can be sent to minor league rehabilitation assignments for up to 20 days for position players and 30 days for pitchers.http://indians.scout.com/2/569136.html

A team generally keeps between 11 and 13 pitchers and 12 to 14 position players on its active roster. White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen prefers to carry 12 pitchers.http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/mlb/news/story?id=4851862 In recent seasons, the team has usually had 12 pitchers, two catchers, four or five outfielders and six or seven infielders/designated hitters.

Chicago White Sox Roster Roster

Roster last updated May 6th, 2010.http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/team/roster_active.jsp?c_id=cws

Starting Pitchers

Relief Pitchers

Closer

Bobby Jenks

Catchers

Infielders

Outfielders

Best All-Time Combination

Arguably the best unit in White Sox history was the group of starting pitchers that carried the team to its first World Series title in 88 years in 2005. Lefty Mark Buehrle joined right-handers Jose Contreras, Freddy Garcia and Jon Garland in a rotation that went a combined 9-1 with 50 strikeouts and just 14 walks in the postseason.http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/teams/pitching?team=chw&season=2005&seasonType=3&split=0&cat=ERA&order=false&type=reg The quartet combined for 92 1/3 innings pitched, including four straight complete games (all wins) during an ALCS win over the Angels.http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/teams/pitching?team=chw&season=2005&seasonType=3&split=0&cat=ERA&order=false&type=reghttp://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=251016103 All four had postseason ERAs under 3.50, with Buehrle's at 3.47, Contreras's 3.09, Garcia's 2.14 and Garland's 2.25.http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/teams/pitching?team=chw&season=2005&seasonType=3&split=0&cat=ERA&order=false&type=reg In the World Series-clinching win over the Astros, Garcia scattered four hits and three walks over seven shutout innings, striking out seven to preserve the 1-0 victory.http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/boxscore?gameId=251026118