White Sox fire (do a favor?) manager Pedro Grifol

[Marc the Habs Fan]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1821544858550481136

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[Blackhawkswincup]

Thank God

The worst manager I have ever seen coach White Sox

Made me miss Terry Bevington

 

[Unholy Diver]

Not a big surprise, guys generally don't survive years when the "worst record ever" starts becoming part of the conversations

 

[John Price]

not a surprise

the white sox were actually good at one point. amazing they did worse without la russa who basically half assed it

 

[Rob]

Understandable. But will it make a difference?

 

[Blitzkrug]

Remember White Sox fans, with Reinsdorf, it could always get worse:

He could hire Aj Pierzynski or bring back Ozzie to replace him.

Edit: actually maybe Ozzie wouldn't be too bad. He would at least give a shit which is more than approximately 99% of the White Sox organization can say right now.

 

[GKJ]

White Sox throwing red meat to the fans who have stuck this out, and maybe get a bump to avoid being the worst team in baseball history.

 

[Blitzkrug]

Understandable. But will it make a difference?

Grifol was really bad at his job. Lots of murmurs around the clubhouse that was a prick too. Had the attitude of "it's not my fault this team sucks, it's on the players. Yet for some reason everyone who left Chicago at the deadline mysteriously started to play better in their new homes.

Per reddit he will finish his managerial career with the third worst winning percentage in baseball history (min 250 games)

Replacing him wouldn't mean they suddenly become division champions or something, but his decisions/game management made an already bad team historically bad.

Now the question becomes can a new manager "spark" them (and I use that term very liberally here) to avoid infamy?

 

[Teemu]

Kinda funny that they waited for the streak to end first

 

[MMC]

Congrats on managing to be worse than geriatric Tony La Russa

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

He could hire Aj Pierzynski or bring back Ozzie to replace him.

Edit: actually maybe Ozzie wouldn't be too bad. He would at least give a shit which is more than approximately 99% of the White Sox organization can say right now.

I was open to Ozzie returning actually but they hired Girfol instead

And yes, Ozzie would never have been this bad

 

[Cas]

Per reddit he will finish his managerial career with the third worst winning percentage in baseball history (min 250 games)

The bottom three are:

• Grifol (.319, 279 games)
• John McCloskey (.313, 615 games), managed Louisville 1895-1896, Cardinals 1906-1908. A long-time minor league manager, generally successful - he was just never given good opportunities in the major leagues.
• Doc Protho (.301, 460 games), managed Phillies 1939-1941. He never had a chance to succeed, but was also a successful minor league manager.

 

[John Price]

Didn't he play baseball for the Indians

Grady Sizemore (born August 2, 1982) is an American former professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cleveland Indians from 2004 through 2011, but did not play in the majors for the following two years after a series of injuries.

 

[Terry Yake]

someone had to be the scapegoat

 

[Blitzkrug]

There's something hilarious about this.

Apparently, Sizemore was working in the Diamondbacks front office as an intern to the point he was only making 15 bucks an hour. Which normally for a guy of his worth is fine, he's just that hungry to get his foot in his door. The fact that the White Sox hired him to be manager...

Look, i'm not saying Reinsdorf is paying the manager of his major league team 15 dollars an hour...but would you really be shocked if he was?

 

[BobColesNasalCavity]

Grady is probably better than 90% of their roster too.

 

[Unholy Diver]

Grady is probably better than 90% of their roster too.

that's assuming that he didn't get hurt by now

 

[Blitzkrug]

that's assuming that he didn't get hurt by now

Torn labrum signing the contract, out for the season.

The ghost of Luis Aparicio named interim to the interim manager

Edit: it has been brought to my attention that Aparicio isn't actually dead.

 

[Unholy Diver]

Torn labrum signing the contract, out for the season.

The ghost of Luis Aparicio named interim to the interim manager

Edit: it has been brought to my attention that Aparicio isn't actually dead.

He would probably wish he was dead after hearing his name attached to the current team

 

[Terry Yake]

is it possible for a manager to go on the DL?

 

[PanniniClaus]

Getz will be under fire soon enough, Big hire coming up.. need to deal with Robert and Crochet in the offseason.. do they cash in and truly tear it to the studs?