{"id":71172,"date":"2024-04-24T07:00:58","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T11:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=71172"},"modified":"2024-04-23T23:03:23","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T03:03:23","slug":"tim-anderson-discusses-white-sox-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/04\/24\/tim-anderson-discusses-white-sox-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"Former White Sox Shortstop Tim Anderson Illustrates Team’s Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Chicago White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson<\/a> recently took some time to talk about his last year with his former team. The dysfunction<\/a> with the\u00a0White Sox has been written about a lot these last few months. As players free themselves of the clutches of the White Sox, more stories seem to come out about the inner workings of the clubhouse and the team. Some interviews have taken place among former Sox, including Anderson (now with the Miami Marlins), that have shed some light on things.<\/p>\n

Tim Anderson Discusses End of White Sox Tenure<\/h2>\n

In an article from The Score.com<\/a>, Anderson talked a bit about the White Sox and what they were like to play for. Asked about his last year with the team, he said:<\/p>\n

\u201cI just know that the last year that I spent there was tough\u201d, he said. \u201cAnd then finally to make it through and be on the other side, I\u2019m happy. I\u2019m in a great place. My smile\u2019s back. I\u2019m back on my journey.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The article also mentioned that Anderson had, \u201cyear after year\u201d, asked the White Sox for extensions. The extension didn\u2019t come, so Anderson would ultimately have to move on.<\/p>\n

Anderson was quoted as saying:<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re not going to always spend your whole career with one team, and I understood that,\u201d he said. \u201cWe all know how it works. We understood that it was time for them to go their way and me to go my way.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The former White Sox shortstop then discussed the fall of the White Sox after winning the AL Central in 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of my decisions as well, you know, off the field, kind of interrupted a lot of things as well. We understood that,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s hard to win when you don\u2019t\u2019 have the right guys to go out and compete\u2026and that want to win it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Tim Anderson spoke to media here at Wrigley. He said he asked for extensions \u201cyear after year,\u201d so he sensed his time with the White Sox would end. He is OK with being free of the pressure of \u2018As TA goes, so go the White Sox\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause it takes a whole team\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 James Fegan (@JRFegan) April 18, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n