Jon Heyman: White Sox's hiring of Will Venable as new manager was 'a real coup'

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00:00Chris gets the general manager entering his second season on the job still relatively new to the role

00:06he hires will Venable who was

00:09Johnny comes with with great credentials hired by Theo Epstein worked with and for Jed Hoyer in San Diego and in Chicago

00:18Sat next to Alex Cora in Boston and Bruce Bochy in Texas. We interviewed him last week on the show bright

00:26charismatic really

00:29It's easy to get enthused about everything that he says it's a tough job to inherit but let's face it he could he could lose

00:35a hundred games and still be

00:38Improved by 21 and you look at the he's making the rounds. He was on the Chicago lead on the Chicago Sports Network last night

00:45He's making a strong first impression. What do you know about him? And what were people saying about this hire?

00:50Well, first of all, Molly's not here. So I will say it that they will lose 100 games 100 plus games

00:55I don't think there's any question about that. I think this is a real coup for the White Sox

00:59I think they did great here. This is a guy who turned down interviews with the Mets and other teams previously

01:04It's a little bit of a surprise that he was willing to go to the White Sox. He'd interview with the Marlins similar type situation

01:11He obviously picked the White Sox over the Marlins. The Marlins would have hired him. Obviously. He's got great credentials Princeton man as well

01:18I don't know if that matters most of the managers are not Ivy Leaguers, but a gate doesn't hurt

01:23I think he's terrific. I think they did a great job there

01:26Why do you think that he turned down the Mets last year and then would take the White Sox job this year?

01:34That doesn't seem

01:35Was this there aren't very many openings available. Was it just a matter of I better strike now while it all things are hot

01:43Here's what I think

01:44I think everybody assumed he was the heir apparent because he did go to Princeton with Chris young and he's obviously a very

01:51Good coach with great potential to be a manager

01:54Everybody assumed he was the heir apparent to Bruce Bochy and I'm not Bruce Bochy did not like retirement

01:58So I'm not sure he's gonna retire anyway, but the Texas Rangers just hired skips Schumacher. Yeah, right, so

02:05They know he probably knew that

02:08Skip Schumacher coming in. He's now the heir apparent, right? I mean

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