On Thursday, after suffering a 28-89 start to the season following a 61-101 2023 season, Pedro Grifol was finally put out of his misery as Chicago White Sox manager:
— Chicago White Sox (@whitesox) August 8, 2024
On the positive side, Pedro — a manager ill-prepared for the task ahead almost from the jump, as he took a .500 team in 2022 down by 20 losses in 2023 and authored the sixth-worst season in White Sox history — has been dismissed. But as we’ve said over much of the past decade on the South Side, there is still a problem here: Ill-equipped and unprepared general manager Chris Getz is the one who will be picking Grifol’s replacement.