The Chicago White Sox are on the backside of MLB’s barrel, each by way of on-field manufacturing and primary decency.
Through the staff’s ugly 9-0 loss to the Braves dropped the White Sox to 0-4 on the younger season, studies surfaced that the group plans to convey again pitcher Mike Clevinger, who was investigated in 2023 after the mom of one in every of his kids, Olivia Finestead, alleged a number of cases the place Clevinger bodily abused her and her baby.
Finestead went on the report in a January 2023 article from The Athletic and described in horrific element the alleged assault, which included Clevinger “throwing ‘chew spit on a screaming toddler baby’ and strangling her.”
Clevinger denied the allegations and was in the end not suspended by MLB. Throughout an April 14, 2023 begin, he shamelessly used Kanye West’s “Gold Digger” as his walk-out tune and refused to reply questions about his poor lack of judgment afterward.
If that does not sound just like the sort of man a staff ought to need in its clubhouse, congratulations: you are extra certified for a job within the White Sox entrance workplace than the folks presently in it.
Clevinger went 9-9 in 2023 and posted a 3.77 earned run common. However there is a purpose no different group would contact Clevinger with a 10-foot pole this offseason. Some issues are larger than baseball.
As dangerous because the White Sox have been via their first 4 video games, it is solely becoming they’d be the one staff keen to tackle Clevinger. In spite of everything, distress loves firm.
