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00:00where we'll be right back.
00:03Pedro Grafal fired this morning Craig by the Chicago White Sox
00:07as a manager, 28 and 89
00:11is the record this year for Chicago.
00:13Of course, earlier this week against Oakland,
00:16they snapped that historic 21 game, losing skids.
00:19So I think the question Craig on everybody's mind,
00:22what led to the White Sox dismissing Grafal
00:25at this point of the season?
00:26I mean, the record, Ben, that's the easiest way to go about it here.
00:33Yeah.
00:34I mean, look, I said yesterday on the show that it was going to cost him his job.
00:39I didn't think it would be today, but definitely at the end of the season, because there's
00:43just no, as a manager, there's no surviving something like this.
00:45I mean, it didn't have a good year last year.
00:47It didn't have a good year this year.
00:49Good year.
00:50I mean, to say the least, this is one of the worst years ever in Major League Baseball.
00:54And look, they're in a rebuild.
00:56It's a really tough situation for him.
00:59I think when he signed up, he knew that things would be taking a little bit of a step back,
01:02but not to this degree.
01:04And like I said yesterday here on the show, you know, certainly you can't lose this many
01:09games in baseball and be a Major League manager.
01:12But a lot of past history, the last few years, I would say, with the White Sox led to this
01:16as well.
01:17So Griffall, I don't know if he'll ever manage again, honestly.
01:21But you know, he'll be a coach as long as he wants to, I would guess.
01:24Craig, just to double down on what the White Sox are doing here.
01:27Just a few short years ago, this was one of the more promising teams in Major League Baseball.
01:30It had unbelievable talent one through nine, a young pitching staff that looked like they
01:34might be able to control that division for years to come.
01:37And it fell apart so quickly here that they really bottomed out.
01:40How did we get to this point with them?
01:42Yeah, look, a lot of the young players that they had, Donnie, and a lot of the young pitching
01:47just simply didn't work out, didn't get properly developed.
01:51You know, there's a couple of different players that we can sort of get to here.
01:54But Yohan Mankata was a player that they acquired in a big trade.
01:58They thought he'd be a corner infielder of the future.
02:00He was not.
02:01Eloy Jimenez, two years ago, looked like a player that's a cornerstone designated hitter,
02:06left fielder, 30 home runs every year, could not stay healthy.
02:09You know, they also had a pitcher, if you remember, Reynaldo Lopez, who was on the White
02:14Sox, who they couldn't, you know, get figured out.
02:17I know he got hurt, but the Braves, you know, certainly untapped him too.
02:20So it seems just like a lot of player development issues with them, not necessarily putting
02:25the right players in the right positions.
02:27And I don't even know that so much as Griff Allsvalt, as opposed to the previous regime
02:31that was there, and Kenny Williams and Rick Hahn, who we talked about, they got fired
02:36at the end of the season last year.
02:38But there's no possible way that you can't look at them also and say, that's a part of
02:42the reason why this has gone so south.