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Ventura likes staff input on lineup decisions
- Updated: May 19, 2016
CHICAGO — White Sox manager Robin Ventura has the last call on the day-to-day lineup. But Ventura certainly takes input from his entire coaching staff before putting one through nine together.
“We talk about it a lot,” Ventura said. “If you see something that maybe I don’t, I think that’s part of having a staff. You’re talking with [bench coach] Ricky [Renteria], you’re talking with [third-base coach] Joe [McEwing], you’re talking with Trick [hitting coach Todd Steverson], everybody. Even Coop, why not?”
Pitching coach Don Cooper, also known as Coop, comes into play with the hitters because he knows “how he’d pitch somebody, just different things like that, maybe an approach another team would have that he would see.”
“You’re always talking about things like that,” Ventura said. “But it will be my call at the end.”
Thursday’s lineup against the Astros featured Brett Lawrie with his first day off of 2016, despite his …
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