The Chicago White Sox are searching for new management on a pair fronts.
As proprietor Jerry Reinsdorf mulls a sale of the franchise, probably to retired pitcher and participant agent Dave Stewart, the group is concurrently on the hunt for a everlasting supervisor to interchange interim Grady Sizemore.
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In line with Josh Nelson and James Fegan of Sox Machine, three names have emerged because the search narrows: A.J. Ellis, George Lombard and Skip Schumaker.
Of the three, solely Schumaker has main league managerial expertise. He resigned his put up with the Miami Marlins in September after his second yr with the membership. The 44-year-old guided the Marlins to a shock Wild Card berth in his first season earlier than slumping to a 62-100 file in 2024.
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Lombard, 49, briefly coached Ellis, 43, in Los Angeles in 2016. After serving because the Dodgers’ first-base coach from 2015-19, Lombard grew to become the Detroit Tigers’ bench coach in 2020. His son, George Lombard Jr., is a prospect within the New York Yankees’ group.
Ellis at present works within the San Diego Padres’ entrance workplace, the one baseball job he is held since retiring as a participant in 2018. The Padres have reached the postseason in three of the final 5 seasons — essentially the most profitable five-year run in franchise historical past.
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The White Sox are searching for a supervisor to guide the group out of an unpleasant scenario that noticed them set a modern-era file with 121 losses in 2024. Chicago fired supervisor Pedro Grifol at midseason and changed him with Sizemore on an interim foundation.
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The group initiatives to hold a $67.5 million payroll in 2025, and isn’t anticipated to spend in free company to fill the gaps obvious on their uncompetitive roster. That was true even before Reinsdorf began exploring a sale. Groups which might be on the market usually decrease bills, so maybe Reinsdorf’s funds for a supervisor will restrict him to first-time candidates solely.
That would bode nicely for Ellis and Lombard, in the event that they certainly interview and have an interest within the job. Whoever will get the task is probably going in for a protracted yr. The American League Central despatched three groups — the Tigers, Cleveland Guardians, and Kansas Metropolis Royals — to the postseason in 2024. All three golf equipment may conceivably enhance subsequent yr.
The White Sox determine to have nowhere to go however up. No group had misplaced 120 video games for the reason that growth New York Mets in 1962. Sizemore’s successor has the bottom bar for fulfillment of any supervisor in current reminiscence.
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