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Last week, the White Sox made the long-necessary decision to move on from Kenny Williams and Rick Hahn.\u00a0 As part of the announcement, the team plesdged to have a \u201csingle decision maker to lead the baseball operations department\u201d and that they anticipate having this person in place by the end of the season.”\u00a0 They said nothing about having an exhaustive search for said decision maker.<\/p>\n
Today, Chris Getz, the assistant general manager who has spent the past seven years overseeing the team’s barren minor league operations and lack of player development, was promoted to senior vice president\/general manager.\u00a0 During his tenure, the White Sox have consistently been at the bottom of the rankings of minor league systems, aside from when sell-off trades at the big-league level have restocked the pantry.\u00a0 Those prospects who have graduated to the major leagues have, more often than not, found themselves woefully unprepared and have seen struggles out of the gate.\u00a0 To top things off, he was also responsible for hiring Omar Vizquel to manage at Double A Birmingham, where he has been accused of sexually assaulting a teenaged, autistic batboy.<\/p>\n
The White Sox have long been an insular organization, and one that is very much in need of new ideas and viewpoints.\u00a0 This was the perfect opportunity to interview the top candidates across the league, even if they wouldn’t ultimately take, or be offered, the job, and see how people outside the organization would attack the problems that have plagued it for years.\u00a0 Instead, Jerry Reinsdorf has decided more of the same is the order of the day.\u00a0 A disappointing end to what should have been a revitalizing process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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