Reading Between the Lines

Wow. A White Sox story in today’s Tribune, which just happens to draw on the same material as the pice on the team website. Long story short, Royals’ catcher Salvador Perez pretty much loves new Sox manager Pedro Grifol. In the Trib story, Perez mentioned Grifol’s ability to “communicate” while pitcher Dylan Cease said Grifol told him “we were going to be having a lot of communication and building relationships.” Hmm. What about twice ex-manager Tony La Russa? Did he communicate and build relationships with his players? Or did he expect his players to know all the unwritten rules of baseball and intuit their roles based on his facial expressions? I go with door no. 2.