Power ranking the most frustrating parts of the Chicago White Sox this season

The Chicago White Sox are the worst team in baseball and are on pace to finish with the worst record in a 162-game schedule in franchise history. For context of how bad that is, the White Sox have been around since 1900.

No man, woman, or child can say they have seen worse from the Sox as not even the 1970 White Sox were this bad at the near halfway point of the season. That is the team that currently holds the distinction of being the worst team in franchise history over a 162-game season.

The expectation was the Sox were going to be bad this year. Not many expected it to be a season where the Southsiders have a legit shot at being worse than the 1962 New York Mets or 2003 Detroit Tigers--two teams considered to be the absolute worst teams in a 161 or 162-game schedule era.

Owner Jerry Reinsdorf's decision to conduct the worst general manager search in baseball history last summer and refusal to spend the going rate for premium talent has created plenty of apathy among the fanbase.

Not selling the team is clearly the most frustrating part of the organization, but that has never been in the cards. Plus, all Reinsdorf can do is set the budget and then sit in the owner's box the rest of the year.

However, he does play a role when it comes to the most frustrating part in the frustration power rankings of the Chicago White Sox this season.

1) Pedro Grifol is still the manager

The speculation is Jerry Reinsdorf does not want to pay Grifol to go away since this disaster is not entirely Pedro's fault. General manager Chris Getz indeed put this awful team together. He did so with meeting Grifol's vision for a winning team in mind.

Instead, the talent that is needed to implement Pedro's acronym of F.A.S.T means having bad players. Pedro loves himself some grinders, but grinder baseball does nothing if you have hitters that have no value and do not hit the long ball.

The biggest issue is that Grifol has led the Sox to nothing but losing. He is in over his head. He is a roving minor-league instructor pretending to be a manager. Most importantly, someone should have been held accountable for all this losing and it should be Pedro.

Yet, here he is still in charge of the lineup card (which is he not very good at properly putting together or the front office is bad at helping him) and bullpen decisions.

2) Playing time for the young players.

The front office and Grifol have preferred to play bad veterans over younger players. The season is lost, so the Sox should pivot to younger players to get an idea of who can help them get back to being competitive.

It could help Getz finally make a determination that at this point he has said he has no clue on a timeline.

Instead, the Sox keep burying young players like Dominic Fletcher, Oscar Colas, Nick Nastrini, Jonathan Cannon (for a brief period), and Jordan Leasure, so the Sox can play guys like Brad Keller, Chad Kuhl, Andrew Benintendi, and Mike Clevinger (when he is healthy).

Money dictates Benintendi has to play, but Tommy Pham should no longer be blocking Colas from playing time. That is not to say Pham is terrible. In fact, he is loved here.

He should only be traded by now after returning from the 10-day IL. It feels like the front office is overvaluing his trade market. The New York Mets got a young, high-ceiling prospect for Pham last trade deadline. While that does not fit the front office's target of getting a prospect closer to the big leagues, that is what Pham's market is probably going to be.

Trade him to Kansas City if they offer up a "scratch-off" prospect or any other team and get guys like Colas in the lineup to see if he can help. The scary part is Drew Thorpe's big-league development is going to be thrown off because gosh darn it, the Sox believe Clevinger has trade value.