White Sox supervisor Will Venable revealed throughout an look on Foul Territory at present that the membership shall be hiring Walker McKinven as their new bench coach, per James Fegan of Sox Machine on X.
McKinven has been working with the Brewers for a few years, with numerous titles over his time with that membership. He had labored in scouting and training roles, along with his most up-to-date title being run prevention coordinator.
Per Adam McCalvy of MLB.com on X, McKinven was concerned in every day recreation planning and was additionally concerned within the membership’s catcher growth. The Brewers have a status for maximizing catcher protection, with the latest instance being William Contreras. He was thought-about a poor defender with Atlanta, posting -11 Defensive Runs Saved earlier than being traded to Milwaukee. Within the two years since, he has been value +11 DRS.
The White Sox are completely remaking their group for the time being. They simply set a modern-day file by dropping 121 video games in 2024 and cleaned home as that season was taking part in out. Again in August, they fired supervisor Pedro Grifol and three coaches, together with bench coach Charlie Montoyo. For the ultimate few weeks of the season, Grady Sizemore took over as interim supervisor whereas Doug Sisson lined the bench coach job.
Venable was just lately tapped to be the membership’s new skipper and has poached McKinven from the Brewers to fill the bench coach position because the Sox look to emerge from their disastrous season and put up higher outcomes going ahead.
