Ozzie's interview must not have went very well.

Why interview Ozzie in the first place? They already know everything they need to know about him.

Ozzie's interview
When I saw that post I just assumed it was a resurrected thread from 10 years ago like the Met's one.

Salazar Slytherin wasn't available?

He should have gotten the Royals gig over Matheny in 2019, but better for his career he didn't. The Royals didn't hire him this time around only because they really had to go outside the organization. He's a good guy who is a good go-between for analytics and on-field staff and the players seem to love him, plus he is bilingual and gets along with the Latin players very well. Good hire.

Always seemed like he was on the manager track.

Fun fact: Grifol was the only coach allowed to act as a translator for players talking to the media. He started doing it for the Royals before their World Series run, and it made so much sense that now every team is required to hire a professional translator except for the Royals, who were allowed to keep using Grifol.

Unless news comes out that Grifol spends the offseason in Scottsdale smoking cigars with Jerry Reinsdorf, this is a major departure from typical White Sox business.

Unless news comes out that Grifol spends the offseason in Scottsdale smoking cigars with Jerry Reinsdorf, this is a major departure from typical White Sox business.

Guillen evidently failed his interview. I can only assume that Gene Lamont and Jerry Manuel failed theirs as well. And Al Lopez lasted a hell of a long time but not quite long enough.

Quite a few of the Sox people I follow on twitter all had pretty much the same reaction - he has no prior connection to the White Sox or Jerry Reinsdorf personally (as far as we know), so he's already better than they expected.

I guess Mike Matheny made a comment saying he talked to Reinsdorf and TLR in favor of Grifol, and then the White Sox tried to play down the fact that TLR was talking to anyone on behalf of the org. So while this may be a positive step, there are still some concerns (the biggest one being Reinsdorf's continued...existence).