The Chicago White Sox have announced that Tony LaRussa has been hired as their new manager.
This is quite a move for the ChiSox, who fired Rick Renteria as their manager after the 2020 season. The ChiSox made the playoffs this year, going 35-25 before falling to the Oakland A’s in the Wild Card Series.
LaRussa managed the ChiSox from 1979 until he was fired in the middle of the 1986 season. LaRussa was then hired by the Oakland A’s less than a month later, and managed them through 1995. LaRussa managed the St.