The Chicago White Sox are on the lookout 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 staff is concurrently on the hunt for a everlasting supervisor to exchange interim Grady Sizemore.
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In keeping 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 12 months 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 document 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 turned the Detroit Tigers’ bench coach in 2020. His son, George Lombard Jr., is a prospect within the New York Yankees’ group.
Ellis presently 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 on the lookout for a supervisor to steer the staff out of an unpleasant scenario that noticed them set a modern-era document 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 staff 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 are on the market sometimes decrease bills, so maybe Reinsdorf’s price range 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 12 months. 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 12 months.
The White Sox determine to have nowhere to go however up. No staff 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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