Chris Getz said Wednesday he expects to bring back Chicago’s entire major league coaching staff for 2027. Manager Will Venable, hitting coach Derek Shomon, pitching coach Zach Bove, all of them.
After the decade the White Sox have had, continuity is the most aggressive move available.
What Just Happened in Chicago
The White Sox improved by 24 wins over 2025 and made the playoffs for the first time following back-to-back 100-loss seasons. They then lost the AL Division Series to the Guardians three games to two, going down 2-0 in Game 5.
That is not a cute overachievement story. That is a franchise that lost 121 games in 2024 reaching a winner-take-all playoff game two years later.
Nearly the entire staff was hired within the past two seasons, which means the group that produced the jump is the group that was assembled for it. Keeping it together is the obvious call, and obvious calls have not been this organization’s specialty.
Getz on What He Found
Getz, speaking to James Fegan of the Chicago Sun-Times, framed the season as a discovery rather than a construction project.
“A lot of people that followed the White Sox or tracked the White Sox, they really felt there was a team within our clubhouse,” Getz said.
And on the staff: “Now to have really talented coaches in our coaches’ room, in our locker room, is something that is perhaps a separator for us.”
On Venable he was shorter and clearer: “We’ve got a really special manager.”
The Murakami Question Is the Actual Offseason
Getz also addressed first baseman Munetaka Murakami’s future, and this is where the winter gets decided.
“Mune means a lot to us,” Getz said. “And we certainly want him to come back here and be here for a long time.”
That is a front office telling its fan base it intends to pay. Whether ownership backs it is a separate matter, and the White Sox have a long history of the two not matching.
A team that just improved by 24 wins and reached a Game 5 has a narrow window to act like a contender before the roster costs money. Retaining the coaching staff is free. Keeping Murakami is not.
Getz Deserves the Credit Here
This is a general manager who spent two years as the most criticized executive in baseball, and much of that criticism was earned. The 2024 team was one of the worst in the sport’s modern history.
He also hired the staff that produced this, resisted the urge to blow it up when the rebuild looked stalled, and is now declining to make changes for the sake of looking busy. Firing a hitting coach after a playoff appearance is the sort of thing bad organizations do to generate headlines.
Chicago is not doing it. That is progress you can measure without a single transaction.
What Comes Next
The looming complication is the calendar. The collective bargaining agreement expires December 1 and a lockout is widely expected, which compresses or freezes whatever Chicago wants to do with Murakami and the rest of the roster.
Getz has at least handled the part he controls. The staff is set, the manager is endorsed, and the first baseman has been publicly courted.
For a franchise that lost 100 games twice in a row, that is a functional October.
A longtime sports reporter, Carlos Garcia has written about some of the biggest and most notable athletic events of the last 5 years. He has been credentialed to cover MLS, NBA and MLB games all over the United States. His work has been published on Fox Sports, Bleacher Report, AOL and the Washington Post.