Midseason regime change a first for Jerry Reinsdorf

After 40 years of ownership under the group led by Jerry Reinsdorf, the White Sox are in new territory. They’ll enter 2024 with a new General Manager for the first time since 2012, and it’ll be the first year since 1998 that Ken Williams won’t be heading up the baseball operations department.

The mid-August firings are an entirely unprecedented move for a regime that’s infamously reticent to make changes mid-season. Since purchasing the White Sox in 1981 and the NBA’s Chicago Bulls in 1984, Reinsdorf has never dismissed a high-level executive before the end of the season, and until now, the only instance of in-season regime change came in 1986, when Hawk Harrelson resigned his post after a…