New manager Will Venable lays out plan on how he will manage White Sox

Will Venable watches from the dugout during a baseball game against the Tampa Bay Rays Sunday, April 24, 2022, in St. Petersburg, Fla., when he was the Red Sox’ bench coach. Venable has been hired to manage the White Sox. Scott Audette/AP Photos

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Will Venable was still playing for his original major league club, the Padres, and had seen just about enough of how the team’s spring training was going.

It was a couple of weeks into camp in Peoria, Ariz., and already some players were getting out in the grass late to stretch. Not everyone was showing up to the batting cages on schedule. The Padres had a basketball court, and too many meaningless hoops battles were being contested…