There’sThere’s an old saying in sports that when things turn rotten you fire the manager (or coach) because you can’t fire the team.
We White Sox fans say, “Why not?”
Oh sure, we wish the manager had been fired long ago, that the general manager had never been hired, that the managing partner would, well, uh, not be there any longer. But, you know what? There’s not much reason not to fire the team, too. At least except for Luis Robert Jr.
Let us first look at some numbers
(We’ll use Baseball-Reference numbers throughout this piece, for simplicity and continuity.