Adam Fogel Signs With White Sox Organization

We caught up with former Missoula Paddlehead after he signed on with the Chicago White Sox organization.

"It's been a sort of long, drawn-out process, kind of the last couple of years of going back and forth," Fogel explained the move to an MLB franchise.

"And then, it's like one week, all of a sudden everything sort of takes off."

On February 12, the Chicago White Sox signed Fogel to a deal, making him the 21st Paddlehead to sign on with a Major League franchise.

"I don't even really know how to explain it. I'm still sort of in that excitement mode," Fogel described what it was like getting the Major League call.

"Once baseball season starts, I'll probably relax a little bit, but I'm getting the opportunity that I dreamed of since I was four or five years old."

Fogel was within moments of playing baseball in Mexico, but whether it was fate, coincidence, or something else, Fogel found his way to the White Sox.

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Goodbye, Mexico, Hello Minor League Baseball

"I was about to go play in Mexico, and I was about to sign that and then, call it what you want, little divine intervention in the back of my head — I'm like, okay, I'm going to reach back to this guy (with the White Sox) one more time."

It was a good thing he did, because he got the call that the Sox were signing him.

Adam Fogel's Major League Goals

Fogel told me he wants the stigma around independent baseball to go away and wants to be a part of changing that. He wants to be one of the successful indie to minor league baseball transitions.

"My goal is Birmingham," Fogel said on where he wants to begin in the White Sox organization. The Birmingham Barons, the Double-A club, is known for being the minor league home of Michael Jordan minor league home during his basketball retirement.

"I'm 27, and hopefully it's mutual. Let's go — a little sink or swim opportunity."