00:00Ozzie, the White Sox are 7-5 in one-run games after really a dismal last season in those situations.
00:08Will Venable has used 34 different batting orders and 31 different defensive lineups in 42 games, according to Baseball Reference.
00:18What do you think he has done best?
00:20And how do you think he has been able to push the right button so far?
00:28Well, it's kind of weird because when you have a young talent, if you see those guys early in the
00:34season, the offense was very bad.
00:37That's why he was changing the lineup to figure out.
00:40Now Atanasia is coming in town.
00:42He's doing a great job, leadoff hitter.
00:44Now he's trying to be more consistent with the lineup.
00:47I think in the past, he was trying to figure out how they're going to hit.
00:54T.O. is down the lineup.
00:55Carroll is struggling a little bit.
00:56They're almost coming up.
00:57All of a sudden, they start swinging back.
00:58They got big.
00:59Not great, but he got big hits for them.
01:01Huge hits.
01:02That's the reason when you have a young talent and when you have guys who don't know where they're going
01:08to hit, you're going to use a lot of lineups.
01:10But I think the best thing about Will is just he has the connection he has with the players.
01:16The respect they have for him.
01:17The love they have for him.
01:19It's the one thing you always, the manager, you only wish, you don't care if they like you or not.
01:24They respect the game and they go after it by the job.
01:29It's all, you know, how they go about their business.
01:33I'm down there every day for batting practice.
01:37Look at the guys.
01:38It's just, I think the way they get along with the coaching staff is pretty cool and very important.
01:47When they have a young coaching staff, obviously very young coaching staff, with not that much experience in the big
01:53league,
01:54but they learn to teach the guys how they're going to play against a particular ball club.
01:59That's why they count.
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