{"id":20590,"date":"2023-08-22T19:44:18","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T01:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=20590"},"modified":"2023-08-22T19:44:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T01:44:18","slug":"cleaning-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/cleaning-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleaning House"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In a shocking development, the White Sox announced this afternoon that executive vice president Kenny Williams and senior vice president and general manager Rick Hahn have been relieved of their duties, effective immediately.\u00a0 The team, expected to be in the middle of a contention window following a rebuild at the end of the last decade, find themselves 49-76 heading into tonight’s game.<\/p>\n

Williams first joined the White Sox as a player via the 3rd round of the 1982 draft.\u00a0 He debuted with the team in 1986 and spent parts of the following two seasons with the club.\u00a0 He rejoined the White Sox organization following his retirement as a scout in November of 1992 before becoming a special assistant to Jerry Reinsdorf in 1994.\u00a0 The following year, he was named director of minor league operations from 1995-1996 and served as vice president of player development from 1997-2000. \u00a0Following the 2000 season, Williams was named general manager, just the third African American in baseball history to hold the position.\u00a0 He was elevated to the executive vice president role following the 2012 season, the role he served until this afternoon.<\/p>\n

Hahn joined the White Sox organization in 2002 as the assistant general manager.\u00a0 He was promoted to general manager following the 2012 season.\u00a0 He was responsible for convincing Jerry Reinsdorf of the need for the rebuild and did a spectacular job of tearing down the major league team to the studs, bringing in a bevy of prospects.\u00a0 It was that next step, of surrounding those prospects with the right mix of free agent veterans, where Hahn failed, either of his own accord or due to meddling from his superiors.<\/p>\n

The announcement from the White Sox says that they plan to have a “single decision maker to lead the baseball operations department” and that they anticipate having this person in place by the end of the season.\u00a0 Does Jerry Reinsdorf have it in him to bring someone new into the organization?\u00a0 Or will he promote from within?\u00a0 We should have the answer sometime in the next six weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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