Chicago White Sox manager Pedro Grifol has a useless strategy
The Chicago White Sox took two of three games from the New York Yankees this week so congrats to the White Sox for winning a meaningless series in the month of August.
Despite the White Sox’s victory over the Yankees on Wednesday night, the annoyance that is their 2023 season continued.
Prior to the game, White Sox manager Pedro Grifol spoke with reporters and emphasized that now is not the time for young players to play as there are still games to be won this season.
Though he acknowledged importance of young players getting experience in final weeks, Pedro Grifol said Elvis Andrus, Zach Remillard will keep splitting time at 2B. Said Sox have talked about how minor leaguers might fit but “today” isn’t the time, focused on guys who are here.
— Vinnie Duber (@VinnieDuber) August 9, 2023
Today is not the time.
The White Sox are 22 games under the .500 mark on the season and 13 games out of first place in the American League Central division. The White Sox have a 0.0% chance according to FanGraphs of making the postseason but now is not the time for the White Sox to play their young players because they have to stack wins.
Chicago White Sox manager Pedro Grifol misses the point on the importance of the remainder of the 2023 season.
This is why the White Sox can not be taken seriously when they tell their fanbase that they will contend in 2024.
Instead of giving playing time to Lenyn Sosa or Jose Rodriguez at second base for the remainder of the season, the White Sox have to do right by the veterans in Elvis Andrus and Zach Remillard. Meaning, by the time that the season is over, the White Sox are not going to have any answer at the second base position.
Will the White Sox address the second base position in the off-season? Given the fact that the team did not address the position when they were in their contention window, there is absolutely no reason to believe they will now.
Meaning, the White Sox will enter Spring Training next season and tell us that one of Sosa or Rodriguez will be ready to take over the second base position, and when they inevitably struggle, “Oh well, at least we gave Andrus and Remillard playing time at the end of the 2023 season”.
Teams that are serious about fixing their problems waste no time in their efforts to turn things around. That does not apply to the White Sox as they have a general manager that is obsessed with pointing his finger at the cesspool of Twitter while their manager says things on a daily basis that has as much logic as Tony La Russa during a DUI stop.
Next. The White Sox have no hope. dark