Do the White Sox need to get a Munetaka Murakami extension done ASAP?

Spiegel & Holmes Show

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4.2 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Matt Spiegel and Ryan McGuffey pondered if the White Sox need to sign slugger Munetaka Murakami to a contract extension as soon as possible. He’s under contract through the 2027 season.

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0:00.0	Spiegel and home show flashback, flashback.
0:04.2	The Roobster, the Roobster hasn't.
0:06.7	Wow.
0:07.5	What?
0:08.1	Wow.
0:09.5	What?
0:11.3	Have you been following along?
0:13.1	He's the one.
0:14.0	No, he's watching this crappy NBA playoffs.
0:16.5	No, no, listen, they're a couple, right?
0:18.5	There's still a couple games under 500.
0:19.9	It's good.
0:24.3	Major. Listen, they're a couple, right, there's still a couple games under 500. It's good. Major, major bag alert.
0:27.0	I mean, frog-eye parko.
0:29.5	Sounds like they'll have no mood at Takamurikami conversation anytime soon nationally.
0:36.1	Murakami has a 934 OPS.
0:40.1	He's got 14 homers.
0:43.1	What we have seen and heard about him as a dude, as a player, as a presence, is even more
0:52.8	impressive, frankly.
0:59.0	And we're going to get the thoughts of our guy, Ryan McGuffie, co-host of the White Sox Recap podcast, host in fact.
1:01.0	He and Brian Anderson do the pod.
1:03.0	And there's some stories out there I want to get to from today.
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