The Chicago White Sox have signed free-agent outfielder Adam Eaton to a one-year, $7 million deal, according to Chuck Garfien of NBC Sports Chicago. The deal includes a second-year team option for $8.5 million. The deal is pending a physical and the plan is for Eaton to become Chicago's everyday right fielder, The Athletic's Ken Rosenthal adds.

Eaton, 32, has spent the last four seasons with the Washington Nationals and helped the franchise win its first World Series title in 2019. Prior to that, he had a three-year stint with the White Sox.

The Nationals declined their $10.5 million option on Eaton, making him a free agent an offseason earlier than anticipated.

Eaton didn't put up big numbers in the abbreviated 2020 campaign, hitting .226/.285/.384 across 176 plate appearances. He then missed the final two weeks of the season with a fractured left index finger. Eaton's first half with Washington was derailed with injuries, but he managed to stay relatively healthy over the past two seasons.

For 2021, it appears it'll be Eaton will be in right, Luis Robert in center, and Eloy Jimenez in left for the White Sox.

Chicago traded Eaton to Washington in 2016 for Lucas Giolito, Reynaldo Lopez, and Dane Dunning. The four-player trade was part of the massive rebuild the White Sox started four years ago, and that deal came shortly after the White Sox shipped off Chris Sale to the Red Sox.

Earlier this week, the club acquired right-handed starter Lance Lynn in a trade with the Texas Rangers. Dunning is reportedly heading to the Rangers as part of the deal. Lynn will join Giolito and former Cy Young-winning lefty Dallas Keuchel alongside Dylan Cease and possibly Michael Kopech in Chicago's rotation.

The club made the expanded playoffs this past October, snapping a 12-year postseason drought, before falling in the American League Wild Card Series (2-1) to the Oakland Athletics.