White Sox set to hire Will Venable as new manager: MLB veteran inherits losing team
According to MLB.com, the Chicago White Sox plan to hire Will Venable as their new manager. Venable becomes the 44th manager in White Sox franchise history and the sixth since the start of the 2020 season. Venable, 42, was the assistant manager under Bruce Bochy with the Texas Rangers the past two seasons.
The Rangers won the 2023 World Series. Prior to that, Venable managed the Boston Red Sox in the 2021 and 2022 seasons, Venable also played in the major leagues for nine seasons, most of them with the Padres. His playing career ended in 2016.
Venable inherits a White Sox team that set a modern Major League Baseball record with 121 losses last season, breaking the long-standing record of 120 set by the New York Mets in 1962.
General manager Chris Getz parted ways with former coach Pedro Grifol in August, and interim Grady Sizemer led the team to a 13-32 record. The White Sox have endured back-to-back 100-loss seasons and aren’t expected to bounce back anytime soon.
Getz has traded away a number of veterans in his relatively short time in charge of baseball operations, and with Garrett Crochet and Louis Robert still on the roster, he may not have made those moves yet. So Venable can have a certain level of patience with the results of the evaluations.
