If there were someone in the White Sox organization who had a bad word to say about Robin Ventura’s managerial work, we’d all know about it by now.
Neither the national news-leading Adam LaRoche affair nor Chris Sale’s jersey-slicing incident ever directly impugned the previous White Sox manager’s command of the clubhouse, his relationship with players, nor his ability to keep the peace.
“Process over results” is an oft-repeated baseball axiom nowadays in terms of statistical performance, but after a universally respected baseball man like Ventura — regardless of whether you ever forgave him for having Kevin Youkilis square up to bunt in the ninth inning against the Tigers in 2012 — oversaw a near endless wave of clubhouse tumult and bizarro scandals, it’s no shock that the White Sox might be inclined to take the opposite from Rick Renteria.