There’s nothing the White Sox can say about Robin Ventura

Before Chris Sale set the White Sox franchise record for most strikeouts in a single season, Robin Ventura made some history of his own.

While the White Sox did fire bench coach Mark Parent — which ain’t nothing, and I’ll get to it in bit — history said they had all the license to clean house and start anew.

If the White Sox could develop young position players, then Tyler Saladino wouldn’t have been necessary as a midseason miracle, nor would he have given way to Mike Olt during the last month.

The White Sox entered the last offseason trying to address soft spots at a corner outfield position, DH, third base, second base and catcher.

Jerry Reinsdorf’s reputation for loyalty to his White Sox favorites looms over the proceedings, as does the front office’s overselling of Ventura’s leadership after his hiring (“If he could have been a four-star general, I think he’s probably equipped to run a baseball team”).

That’s not happening, and so I can’t shake the sense that Ventura is the White Sox version of Alan Trammell, and this is the time they should be calling for a Jim Leyland.

We knew a little bit about him — he was the bad cop to Ventura’s good cop, gave the Sox a bit of the backbone they needed when it came to HBP imbalances, and was more blunt about his evaluations.

While Hahn declined to get specific on why Parent was no longer a good fit, he did say the White Sox are looking to get better with in-game tactical decisions and to incorporate analytical data to a greater extent.

Hahn also said a Spanish-speaking coach would be a “positive,” and this all makes sense, but specific attributes seem less important than the greater idea that whoever the White Sox hire to replace Parent should be good enough to replace Ventura in May if another slow start risks burying the Sox before summer arrives yet again.

For instance, if the Sox hire a qualified candidate known to fans — on Twitter, Larry came up with the idea of Jose Valentin — the loud voices, be they fans or writers or talkers, are going to wield that name on Ventura like a mace if 2016 resembles 2015 (which resembled 2014, which was only marginally better than 2013, hence this problem).