Sources: Civale to ChiSox after bullpen pushback

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Jun 13, 2025, 10:34 AM ET

Aaron Civale is getting his privation for a commercialized aft resisting the Milwaukee Brewers' effort to determination him to the bullpen.

The Brewers are trading Civale to the Chicago White Sox for archetypal baseman Andrew Vaughn, sources told ESPN's Jesse Rogers connected Friday.

The commercialized comes 2 days aft the Brewers announced they were shifting Civale to the bullpen for the archetypal clip successful his seven-year career. That was being done to marque country for flame-throwing imaginable Jacob Misiorowski successful the Milwaukee rotation.

But Civale pushed backmost against the bullpen move, saying helium wanted to proceed starting, adjacent if that meant getting traded.

"We're exploring the options to springiness maine the accidental to bash what I bash best, and that's to spell retired determination and start," Civale said Thursday.

Civale (1-2, 4.91 ERA), who turned 30 connected Thursday and is eligible for escaped bureau aft the season, was the unusual antheral retired erstwhile the Brewers opted to spell with a rotation of Misiorowski, Freddy Peralta, Jose Quintana, Quinn Priester and Chad Patrick. Misiorowski tossed 5 scoreless innings successful his large league debut Thursday to assistance the Brewers win 6-0 successful the opener of a four-game bid with the St. Louis Cardinals.

Civale, who owns a 40-37 vocation grounds with a 4.06 ERA, said his past regular-season alleviation show came successful assemblage astatine Northeastern.

"Whatever's next, I'm not precisely definite what's going on," Civale said. "This is typically aboriginal successful the play for a commercialized to spell down, but I cognize what I tin do. I deliberation a batch of radical cognize what I tin do. Whatever the adjacent steps are, they are. Go from there."

Civale is present heading from a Brewers squad that won the past 2 National League Central titles to a White Sox nine that has mislaid much than 100 games each of the past 2 years and is already 21½ games backmost successful the American League Central with a 23-46 record.

Vaughn, 27, was successful his 5th play with the White Sox. He was hitting .189 with 5 location runs and 19 RBIs successful 48 games this play earlier being sent to Triple-A Charlotte successful May successful hopes of getting him backmost connected track.

Information from The Associated Press and Field Level Media was utilized successful this report.

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