Pick your phone back up, if you’re reading on mobile, because this is not a Halloween gag or early April Fools’: The White Sox have hired the best candidate available, naming Will Venable as their new manager on Thursday.
Venable, the associate manager under Bruce Bochy in Texas, agreed to the job yesterday, on his 42nd birthday. The esteemed baseball mind was a favored candidate for jobs around baseball just a year ago, until taking himself out of consideration for open jobs due to his satisfaction with the Rangers job.
Somehow, something about the White Sox pitch, or a year passed, changed things, because the nine-year veteran (Padres, Rangers, Dodgers) and son of MLB vet Max Venable has agreed to wade into the quagmire that is the 121-loss White Sox.