White Sox Catcher Edgar Quero Is Finally Showing Signs of Life

For most of the 2026 season, Chicago White Sox catcher Edgar Quero has been one of the worst players in baseball. There's simply no other way to put it.

The 23-year-old catcher was supposed to form a tandem with Kyle Teel this season and give the White Sox one of the best young catching cores in the sport. That's been anything but the case.

Teel has been injured for the majority of the year, while Quero has simply failed to look like a big leaguer. He's managed to hinder the White Sox in nearly every aspect of the game. He hasn't hit or been getting on base, he's well below average defensively, and he's been one of the worst catchers in baseball when it comes to the ABS challenge system.

Quero became such a detriment to the White Sox that Chicago started choosing Drew Romo over him, despite Romo being 7-for-81 at the plate since the start of June. Romo's defense, however, is average, and that's more than can be said for Edgar Quero, who currently is worth -0.5 fWAR on the 2026 season.

But perhaps the young catcher is beginning to turn things around. That's relative, of course, but with Teel back on the IL and trade deadline acquisition Joey Bart breaking his hand just three games into his White Sox tenure, Quero's improved performance could loom large for the White Sox down the stretch.

Through his first 57 games of 2026, Quero was batting .179 with a .473 OPS. However, he's been much better and more competitive offensively since returning from the minor leagues. For starters, in 33 plate appearances since being called back up, Quero has just one strikeout.

He was riding a five-game hit streak from the end of July into early August, with at least one hit in all three games he played against the New York Yankees including a walk-off single, a two-hit effort against the Tampa Bay Rays on August 1, and a hit on Friday night against the Cleveland Guardians. The only reason Quero's hit streak snapped was because he walked three times in Sunday's rubber match with Cleveland.

Then, on Tuesday night, hosting the Reds, Quero hit a solo home run and found himself contributing to the White Sox.

Over his last seven games, Quero is batting .318 with a .423 on-base percentage. He has the aforementioned home run and a .878 OPS.

This is, of course, a small sample size. But even if it's an indicator that Quero can have an OPS close to .700 the rest of the way, not strike out, and be a competent offensive player, that would be a massive upgrade for the White Sox over what they've been getting in 2026. It would also be good enough to justify Quero getting most of the playing time over Romo, who can't seem to break out of his offensive rut.

The White Sox don't need a world-beater at catcher. The complaint hasn't been that the team lacks a superstar at the position. They just need that spot in the batting order to not be a complete black hole, especially if Luisangel Acuña is also going to get consistent at-bats. Your pitching staff isn't good enough to have two players in the lineup contribute nothing offensively.

Maybe it's fool's gold. It's only a seven-game sample size, after all. But maybe it's a sign that some small adjustments have been made that have led to some general improvement for Edgar Quero.

Either way, the White Sox will take what they can get. And right now, as crazy as it sounds, he's the only logical option to play catcher for the White Sox in a pennant race.