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Cooper eager to play role in White Sox ‘build’
- Updated: December 16, 2016
CHICAGO — Don Cooper does not favor the word “rebuild.”
And that dislike doesn’t come from Chris Sale, the White Sox ace, being traded to Boston to begin the process.
“It’s a build to me and it’s always a build. Every year it’s a build. The names change, but my job and their jobs don’t change,” said the White Sox pitching coach during a conversation with MLB.com. “So, I’m excited about the people we got back and the prospects of us doing this build, getting it done, getting back where we all want to be, and that’s a process.
“Listen, again on the one hand, I’m disappointed that Chris is gone. But it simply had to happen. We had to make a move.”
Cooper witnessed pretty much every pitch thrown by Sale from the time he reached the Majors as a reliever in 2010 two months after he was selected 13th overall in the 2010 MLB Draft. Sale stood as an All-Star for all five seasons spent as a starter and a Top 6 finisher in the American League Cy Young Award voting in each of those years.
The new names for Cooper to focus upon include Michael Kopech and Victor Diaz, who came over from Boston …
