Posted on 02/11/2026 5:53:54 AM PST by DFG
A former White Sox pitching prospect is suing the team, claiming he was pushed into taking a COVID-19 vaccination in 2021 that resulted in severe allergic reactions that eventually derailed his career.
Isaiah Carranza, a 12th-round draft pick of the Sox in 2018, alleges team officials warned him he would be ‘‘blacklisted’’ if he didn’t get two doses of the vaccine, meaning they wouldn’t release him from his contract for opportunities with other clubs even though he had ‘‘no prospects of moving up’’ with the Sox.
Carranza got the Pfizer vaccine and soon began suffering ‘‘extreme dizziness, nausea, near-fainting and wildly fluctuating heart rate’’ that the team chalked up to dehydration, anxiety and ‘‘rookie nerves,’’ attorneys for Carranza claimed in his federal lawsuit, which was filed in December in Chicago.
Numerous studies have shown that COVID-19 vaccinations are highly effective at preventing severe cases of the respiratory disease and that severe allergic reactions are exceedingly rare. The Illinois Department of Public Health recommends the vaccine for nearly all people 6 months or older as a means of minimizing the severity of infections.
MLB encouraged players to get vaccinated but did not mandate it when the game returned early in the pandemic.
Carranza later was diagnosed with a nervous-system disorder that his lawyers tie to the vaccine. He never advanced beyond the Sox’ High-A affiliate and hasn’t appeared in a minor-league game since 2022.
Carranza’s estimated future medical expenses are more than $557,000, his lawyers say. A Sox spokesman declined to comment on the active litigation.
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” the vaccine ... a means of minimizing the severity of infections. “
Now, STOP calling it a vaccine.
Could sue the chicoms. Bigger club.
He ought to sue them for $Billion$!
I hope he prevails!
I think we can all figure out what the folks at the Sun Times thinks about the so-called “vaccines.”
The perfect crime against innocent, trusting human beings.
This explains how the Sox had three straight seasons with 100+ losses, including a staggering 121 losses in 2024. Their farm system was full of vaccinated zombies.
Mitchell Armentrout at the Chicago Sun Times continues to repeat this lie, even this many years later.
O M M O I R C O R N O I N C proved the MurdeRNA shots don't work and aren't vaccines.
He’ll be dying safely and effectively soon!
I think that my gaggle of heart meds kept me alive, somehow, including Exaralto for clots.
I think that my gaggle of heart meds kept me alive, somehow, including Exaralto for clots.
It is not a true vaccine if you are expected to get the disease, but just have a lesser form and not have the active infection prevented.
It certainly was not a traditional vaccine. That’s another way to say it was not a vaccine.
HE NEEDS TO SUE FAUCI
They had to change the definition just to get the cattle to swallow it.
I hope he bankrupts them.
2020 we had less deaths than 2019. 2021 deaths went way higher due to the killer shot. All diseases death rates went higher because of the killer shot. It didn’t save one life.but hurt everyone’s heath.
Health, sorry
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