{"id":82423,"date":"2024-08-08T10:19:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T14:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=82423"},"modified":"2024-08-08T10:36:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T14:36:51","slug":"white-sox-fire-pedro-grifol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/08\/08\/white-sox-fire-pedro-grifol\/","title":{"rendered":"White Sox Fire Manager After Historically Bad Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2024 Chicago White Sox are comparable to the 1962 New York Mets in many ways. However, with the White Sox season sinking faster than the Titanic, they have fired manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/grifope99.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-08-08_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pedro Grifol<\/a>. The decision comes after a franchise-record 21-game losing streak. Grifol, 54, was in his second season as White Sox manager, his <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2022\/11\/01\/pedro-grifol-white-sox-manager\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">first managerial job<\/a> in the majors. Grifol&#8217;s first season was a disappointing performance in 2023 with a 61-101 record, a significant setback from an 81-81 record in 2022. New general manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/getzch01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-08-08_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chris Getz<\/a> began to <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2023\/08\/31\/chris-getz-promoted-general-manager\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">tear down the roster<\/a> this past offseason and as a result, Chicago is 28-89, the worst record in MLB.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"zxx\"><a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/g3xyqkkx44\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/g3xyqkkx44<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chicago White Sox (@whitesox) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/whitesox\/status\/1821544858550481136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 8, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Pedro Grifol Dismissed by White Sox<\/h2>\n<p>Chicago is commencing a search for a new manager immediately. A full-time replacement will likely be announced in the offseason as the White Sox did not announce an interim manager; Getz will speak to reporters later this morning.<\/p>\n<p>The White Sox began the season with 22 losses in their first 25 games, tying the 2022 Cincinnati Reds and 2003 Detroit Tigers for the worst 25-game start in the modern era. The 1988 Baltimore Orioles were worse, who began at 2-23. Unfortunately, it became a difficult hole for the White Sox to climb out of. Chicago began their franchise-record slide on July 10 against the Minnesota Twins. When it reached 16 games, Grifol denied multiple reports that he told White Sox players that it would be on them if they broke the MLB record for losses. The White Sox have lost 100 games just five times since they began play in 1901, including a franchise-worst 106 losses in 1970.<\/p>\n<p>With less than two months of the season left, the White Sox are on pace to <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/04\/20\/white-sox-lose-100-games\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">lose more than 120 games<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/f\/feddeer01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-08-08_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Erick Fedde<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/k\/kopecmi01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-08-08_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Kopech<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/p\/phamth01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-08-08_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tommy Pham<\/a> were among the players traded away at the trade deadline. The White Sox roster now is far less talented than they were in the first half.<\/p>\n<p><em>More to come.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Main Photo: \u00a9 Raymond Carlin III-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2024 Chicago White Sox are comparable to the 1962 New York Mets in many ways. However, with the White Sox season sinking faster than the Titanic, they have fired manager Pedro Grifol. The decision comes after a franchise-record 21-game losing streak. Grifol, 54, was in his second season as White Sox manager, his first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3686,"featured_media":82424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1071,35],"tags":[258,1626,124,85,391,771,164,6053,1087],"class_list":["post-82423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whitesox","category-mlb","category-news","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-chris-getz","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-erick-fedde","tag-michael-kopech","tag-new-york-mets","tag-pedro-grifol","tag-tommy-pham"],"modified_by":"Matt Graves","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3686"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}