The Chicago White Sox named Chris Getz because the staff’s new senior vice chairman/general manager on Thursday.
The transfer comes per week after the White Sox fired Rick Hahn from that function.
Getz, who turned 40 on Wednesday, has spent the previous seven years overseeing the staff’s minor league operations, together with the final three as assistant general manager.
“Chris brings a wealth of knowledge and experience within our organization to this role,” White Sox chairman Jerry Reinsdorf stated. “Most importantly, he knows our players, both at the major league level and in our system, knows our staff and is familiar with all aspects of our baseball operations department.
“Chris has impressed me tremendously over the previous seven years. In our conversations collectively this season, I’ve turn into energized by his imaginative and prescient, method and sense of what this group wants to turn into aggressive once more. With his present data of the group, prime to backside, I imagine his management will present us with the quickest path ahead to our purpose, a constantly profitable baseball staff that competes and performs the sport the appropriate means. He will re-energize this group.”
Getz joined the White Sox after spending two seasons as a baseball operations assistant/player development with the Kansas City Royals, including the club’s World Series-winning campaign in 2015.
“I’m honored and humbled to be given this management accountability,” Getz said. “I perceive what this staff means to White Sox followers, and I’m excited to start the work as we speak and throughout the the rest of this season. There is quite a lot of expertise inside this clubhouse and inside this ballpark, and we’re going to diligently start to do the work and lay the inspiration for a corporation and a staff all of us take delight in, from the workers, to the gamers, to our followers.”
Getz was drafted by the White Sox twice, the latter coming in the fourth round of the 2005 draft out of Michigan. The second baseman was a lifetime .250 batter in 459 career games with the White Sox (2008-09), Royals (2010-13) and Toronto Blue Jays (2014).
—Field Level Media
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