The White Sox learned the hard way what happens when a front office search doesn’t really feel like a search at all. Chris Getz drew plenty of heat when Jerry Reinsdorf handed him the job after dismissing Kenny Williams and Rick Hahn, but the bigger issue was the process itself. There wasn’t much of one, and there wasn’t much reason to think Getz was the answer to a club that had gone nowhere under a player development system that never built a real pipeline to the 26-man roster.
Reinsdorf didn’t exactly calm things down when he said, after 23 years of Williams and 11 years of Hahn, that he suddenly felt there was no time to waste. That line landed especially oddly at the moment he might have had to start meeting new people.
Still, Britt Ghiroli’s reporting on the unease building in San Francisco around Buster Posey shows how much stranger these moves can get when a team skips the normal checks and balances. Posey’s rise happened fast: he joined the Giants’ ownership group and board of directors, won a power struggle over the previous GM by taking over negotiations for a Matt Chapman extension, and then ended up running the whole operation before anyone could really ask whether he had the experience for it.
That kind of leap - from player to team president - is being treated as a nostalgia play in an industry that usually likes its decisions careful and data driven. One longtime MLB executive compared it to eating at a Michelin-star restaurant and then trying to recreate the meal yourself at the grocery store.
Posey doesn’t need the money, and he doesn’t need the spotlight. He has almost nothing to gain, but he does have his reputation on the line.
“It’s either really admirable or really foolish,” said another rival executive who, like others interviewed, spoke on the condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to speak publicly. “And we’ll know which when it’s over.”
For White Sox fans, that whole mess may be a reminder that things could have gone even worse. At least Chris Getz had spent time in the organization and had seen the previous front office up close. And maybe, just maybe, that means fans are lucky Paul Konerko is content playing hockey and watching prep baseball in Arizona.
Elsewhere, Darrin Jackson has now been part of White Sox broadcasts for 26 seasons, TV and radio combined, and after years of working alongside Hawk Harrelson and Ed Farmer, his run with Len Kasper has made one thing clear: he’s a great hang.
Keith Foulke didn’t make it through the first week as the inaugural manager of the Boston Hunters in the Women’s Pro Baseball League. He said his contract allowed him to spend time in Arizona during the season, but with the league’s season lasting only a month, it sounds like the commissioner wanted somebody more committed.
John Mozeliak is also making his presence felt with the Angels despite the interim label, overseeing a major deadline sell-off and firing coaches who resisted technology.
And then there was Joshua Baez, who crushed the first major league pitch he saw over Wrigley Field’s center field wall, then homered twice more to become the first player to hit three home runs in his debut. In the middle of the stat-chasing, Seby Zavala’s name came up because he’s the only other player to hit his first three homers in the same game.
The Blue Jays, meanwhile, have won six straight series even after selling at the deadline, and they sit just a half-game out of the third wild card spot at 61-64. Ugly, but very much alive.
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With Chicago leading the AL Central, the timing of Smiths next step matters more now than it did in April. He has shown enough at different points to stay in the conversation, but the team could be looking at him in a different lane than originally planned, whether that means a bullpen look or a spot start as the postseason picture comes into focus. For a club trying to cover innings and protect its lead, Smith has become one of the more interesting variables on the roster. [Read more 🡒]
White Sox Prospects Gave Fans Another Reason To Watch The Pipeline
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Kyle Lodise headlined the bats with two home runs, while Ronald Cardozo also left the yard as Kannapolis helped itself to a win. On the mound, Noah Schultz turned in a strong outing for Charlotte and Fabian Ysalla did the same for Kannapolis, giving the White Sox another look at the kind of pitching depth that can make the organization easier to watch even before the big league club gets the call-ups. [Read more 🡒]