The White Sox are finalizing an agreement with Carlos Rodriguez to become an assistant general manager, reports James Fegan of Sox Machine. The team has yet to officially announce the news.
Rodriguez will join the Chicago organization after a 15-year run with the Rays. He had come up through Tampa Bay’s international scouting ranks and eventually took the reins in that department. Rodriguez earned the AGM title over the 2021-22 offseason and had taken on a broader front office role over the past few years.
He stepped down at the end of the ’25 campaign to pursue other opportunities. The Rays promoted vice president of baseball process/strategy Hamilton Marx to fill the assistant GM vacancy. Marx will assume many of the international scouting responsibilities that Rodriguez had previously handled.
Fegan writes that Rodriguez is expected to have wide-ranging responsibilities. He’ll no doubt play a role in international operations but will also factor into the team’s decision-making on the MLB side. He’ll join Josh Barfield and Jin Wong as assistant general managers under front office leader Chris Getz.
After reading his info via SoxMachine, solid hire for the Pale Hose.
What good is an assistant GM w/ Getz as GM. The 24 hour period where Jerry fired the the long fan despised duo of Williams and Hahn, and then announced he would replace them with Getz, a protoge to both nitwits, he sealed the fate of this team until he dies or sells this god forsaken waste of a franchise.
This team has no future until probably 2033, and that’s only if by the grace of God Jerry parts ways by then.
Getz has been fine so far. It doesn’t really matter who the GM or manager of this team is anyway. When it’s time for them to transition from rebuild to actually winning, it will fall apart because Jerry won’t spend money on quality players to round out the roster. Young prospects emerging in the bigs is great, but you can’t win anything without proven, reliable talent.
Well said
It’s a solid hire, he might end up being the next GM.
Yep, succession plan.
Well said. It’s all meaningless until Jerry goes. That being said, anybody who hasn’t worked closely around/for Hahn would be much better than Getz. Giving Robert 20 million ahead of another lost season when they have not been and won’t be able to trade him for prospects worth even a tiny fraction of that is a perfect example of how dumb, ridiculous, wasteful, and inept this organization is.
But the GM is a limited part of what has prevented this franchise from success. Jerry and the fact that they are the only team other than the A’s to never sign a player to a 9 figure contract is of course the main reason.
The hiring “process” for Getz was an abomination, but he’s done what the franchise has needed by rebuilding it from the international side, to R&D, to outside voices coming in, etc. it’s an entirely new infrastructure. Will it work, we shall see, but I commend him for doing what’s needed instead of what’s necessarily popular to the average fan.
Getz has been doing good here. Wasn’t good in the minors, but really no complaints so far. This as about as good as we could have hoped
Not a Sox fan but seems to me Getz has done fine so far. No major known screw-ups, and the transactions have the Sox on the road to respectability.
I don’t know that he got enough on the Cease deal, but Thorpe can still salvage some value from the deal. I don’t blame him for sometimes missing on salvage projects or dumpster diving; if they were guaranteed, they wouldn’t be in Getz’ budget. So overall, I agree, and I like the coaching and FO hires he’s made. He did fairly well on the Crochet deal. All four of those guys seem like useful major leaguers, with Teel and Braden seeming like solid starters and potential stars.
dumpster diving is never not a 50% hit or miss rate.
I always like the Rays batting and players that can get on base and don’t strike a lot, although the signing of Christopher Morrell was a bad one.
Sell the team Mr. Reinsdorf terrible brand of baseball from ownership to low minors, ask the Southside.
Jhomeslice: J Ishbia can take over as new majority owner as soon as 2029 btw which isn’t dreadfully far away tbh.
Only if Jerry sells. The decision isn’t out of Jerry’s hands until after the 2033 season.
I highly doubt Jerry lives to age 95-97. For what I read he wants to decide on the new commissioner after Manfred steps down before giving control to Ishbia.
He’s the Montgomery Burns of baseball. I wouldn’t be surprised in the least if he lived to 100.
Sell the team Jerry.
Smart move. Getz’ strength seems to be hiring management/coaches and it appears that they now have Rodriguez to focus on the players worth developing.