Marcus Stroman writes off Chicago White Sox with tweets

It doesn’t appear that Marcus Stroman wants to come to play for the Chicago White Sox.

With a great young core like the Chicago White Sox have, you would think that great free agents would want to come to play with them so they have a legit chance to win. Add the fact that they would get to live in a world-class city in the summer and you have a very nice looking destination on the South Side. Well, some recent developments make it seem like the White Sox are going to have a hard time recruiting guys this year.

Tony La Russa was a bad hire, to begin with. As you have heard by now, he has been handed his second DUI. He was charged the day before his hire for driving under the influence back in February. COVID-19 delayed the results of the charge but now it has come down and is public. The White Sox apparently knew about it which makes it look even worse. He is turning people away from this team for on the field and off the field issues.

He hasn’t coached a game in a long time (almost a decade) but that isn’t even the only reason. There seems to be a disconnect between him and some of the modern-day players. He hasn’t even reached out to Tim Anderson yet and that feels like a big problem. Anderson plays the game a certain way and from the second La Russa was hired, people speculated about how he would handle it.

Now we know that at least one free agent has written off the White Sox as a result of this hire. Marcus Stroman is a fantastic player that spent most of his career with the Toronto Blue Jays before his big trade to the New York Mets. The White Sox could really use an arm like that but his recent Twitter activity suggests that there is no chance.

It is clear that Marcus Stroman has some hard feelings for Tony La Russa. This is just one of many tweets he had in response to the issue on Tuesday. This is a big problem for the White Sox if this is the league-wide perception. They have a great young and talented team that they are going to waste if they allow this to continue.

Stroman is a great baseball player that would be a great fit for the White Sox. It seemed like they were at minimum a possibility for him before this hire but now there is no chance. It would be great to see the White Sox fire La Russa right now but it doesn’t seem like it will happen. Plenty of major baseball writers also agree that this should be something they consider.

It is awesome when you see the White Sox in the news for good things but this isn’t one of those times. His remarks that he made as recently as 2016 along with his fresh DUI shouldn’t sit well with the fan base of this team. They are in danger of letting him ruin everything they have built.

Rick Hahn deserves a lot of credit for building the team the way that it is but something has to change and fast. Marcus Stroman’s tweets about the situation are very telling about how this might go if they don’t act on it quickly.