Chicago White Sox: Who should be authorized to do the next roster teardown?

The key issue will be who gets to make those decisions.

If the Chicago White Sox do not turn things around soon, Rick Hahn could be on the hot seat. The reason he has held his job this long is because Jerry Reinsdorf is notoriously loyal.

Hahn is responsible for the roster that had a terrible April start and has yet to win more than three games in a row. While Hahn compiled a great amount of talent, a lot of the players have failed to reach their potential.

If there is a chance that Hahn could be out of a job, it is not a great idea to let him trade for prospects that the next leadership group might not like.

The Parkins and Spiegel show on local radio 670theScore discussed if Hahn should not make the trade, then maybe it should be Kenny Williams or Chris Getz making the calls.

Williams put together the roster that won the 2005 World Series. He was always looking to win now before he was kicked upstairs to an executive vice president title. Getz is in charge of the team’s player development and has been viewed as a potential heir to Hahn.

Kenny’s wheeling and dealing through the 2000s left the team needing to go through an extensive rebuild during the next decade. Getz has failed to develop quality depth within the organization.

All three options are less than ideal.

The best option would be for Jerry Reinsdorf to clean house and bring in new leadership from outside the organization before the trade deadline. Again, Jerry is loyal to a fault so do not expect that to happen anytime soon.

The most likely outcome if the team continues to fail and a sell-off happens, is Kenny Williams will be inserted back into making all the baseball decisions. Jerry did that with Chicago Bulls, the other Chicago team he owns, when Gar Forman lost power and John Paxson was reinserted as the main decision-maker for basketball matters.

The hope would be that Reinsdorf eventually would go outside the organization as he did with the Bulls to get a new baseball leader. Then cross your fingers this person does better than the current management staff the Bulls have.