The White Sox are busy moving on from a subpar 2015 season at the winter meetings this week, but pitching coach Don Cooper addressed one of the year’s disappointments for the final time Tuesday.
Cooper, who lives near the site of the meetings at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and visited with Sox executives, said he looks at the club’s poor season with Jeff Samardzija as one of his own failures.
The Sox traded for Samardzija in December 2014, but his one-year tenure was largely a dud as the 30-year-old right-hander posted a 4.