{"id":88458,"date":"2024-10-29T19:36:49","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T23:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=88458"},"modified":"2024-10-29T19:36:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T23:36:49","slug":"white-sox-three-candidates-new-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/10\/29\/white-sox-three-candidates-new-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: White Sox Down to Three Candidates for New Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago White Sox are reportedly down to three finalists in their search for a new manager. According to Bob Nightengale of USA Today, Craig Albernaz, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/v\/venabwi01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-10-29_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Will Venable<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/managers\/nevinph01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Phil Nevin<\/a> are the last three candidates for the position. Albernaz, the bench coach for the Cleveland Guardians, and Venable, the Texas Rangers associate manager, are also the final two candidates for the Miami Marlins&#8217; managerial vacancy, as <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/10\/28\/marlins-manager-search-update\/\" target=\"_self\">reported<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">White Sox Managerial Search Reportedly Down To Three Finalists <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DtnONQveo6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/DtnONQveo6<\/a> <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FrdjAV12zR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/FrdjAV12zR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MLB Trade Rumors (@mlbtraderumors) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mlbtraderumors\/status\/1851396147182457250?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 29, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Report: White Sox Down to Three Candidates for New Manager<\/h2>\n<p>Venable and Nevin remained on the shortlist after an earlier <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/10\/27\/white-sox-manager-search-narrows\/\" target=\"_self\">narrowing of candidates<\/a> on Sunday by the White Sox. Both carry coaching experience at the major league level, and Nevin managed the Los Angeles Angels for nearly two full seasons. Albernaz has been a popular candidate among multiple teams with managerial openings. A career minor leaguer as a player, Albernaz carries major league coaching experience with both the Guardians and the San Francisco Giants, serving as a <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/10\/17\/marlins-manager-search-guardians-coach-craig-albernaz\/\" target=\"_self\">bullpen and catching coach<\/a> with the latter.<\/p>\n<p>With Nevin, 53, being the oldest of these finalists, it is clear that the White Sox are looking for some younger blood to helm the franchise through what is sure to be a lengthy rebuild. After setting the modern-day major league record with 121 losses in 2024, the pressure is on to find the right fit. Based on Nightengale&#8217;s reporting, it appears interim manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/managers\/sizemgr01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grady Sizemore<\/a>, who took over for the fired <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/managers\/grifope99.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pedro Grifol<\/a> in August, will not be that person.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Chicago White Sox and Miami Marlins could find themselves in a battle over the same managerial candidates.<br \/>\nThe White Sox&#8217;s three finalists for their managerial vacancy are Texas Rangers associate manager Will Venable, former Los Angeles Angels manager Phil Nevin, and\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BNightengale\/status\/1851338464253612472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 29, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The fact that two of the White Sox finalists are also the last two in the Marlins search creates plenty of intrigue both ways. One franchise may decide against a candidate, while the other sees them as the right fit and brings them on. Conversely, Chicago or Miami is the first to lock down their top choice, it will limit the options of the other team.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: \u00a9 Jerome Miron-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago White Sox are reportedly down to three finalists in their search for a new manager. According to Bob Nightengale of USA Today, Craig Albernaz, Will Venable, and Phil Nevin are the last three candidates for the position. Albernaz, the bench coach for the Cleveland Guardians, and Venable, the Texas Rangers associate manager, are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3931,"featured_media":88463,"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":[28785,6150,6053,3116,28796],"class_list":["post-88458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whitesox","category-mlb","category-news","tag-craig-albernaz","tag-grady-sizemore","tag-pedro-grifol","tag-phil-nevin","tag-will-venable"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88458","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\/3931"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}