You Go. He Stays.

The White Sox have decided to part ways with hitting coach Todd Steverson, who had been at his job on the South Side the past six seasons.  Sox general manager Rick Hahn must have seen Steverson’s glass as half-empty.

I mean, Hahn didn’t care that Tim Anderson raised his batting average from .240 to .335 to lead all of baseball or that Yoan Moncada went from .235 in 2018 to .315 this year or that Jose Abreu recorded a career-best (and AL-leading) 123 RBIs.  Apparently, the Sox don’t walk enough or score enough runs.

The age-old debate with hitting and pitching coaches centers on credit and blame—how much do they deserve for the end-of-season stats?  The Astros are first in all of baseball in walks and OBP, third in runs scored.  Does that mean their hitting coaches are great or the GM did a topnotch job assembling his roster?  I go 30-70, with the GM getting the lion’s share of the credit.  I wonder if Rick would agree.

The Sox also announced they were bringing back pitching coach Don Cooper for a nineteenth season, which must be Cooper’s reward for guiding his staff to a 4.90 ERA, eighth worst in all of baseball.  The best team ERA?  Why, that would be the Dodgers at 3.37.  But don’t blame the pitchers.

In the bizarro world of the White Sox front office, it’s the hitters’ fault, and their coach most of all.