Whatever you think of Tony La Russa, whatever hard feelings you might harbor against him, you have to admit he’s had a rough couple of years. Some of it has been his own doing — a DUI arrest before the White Sox hired him in October 2020 — and some of it has been a team effort — the club’s underachieving 2022.
But now he’s stepping away from the team indefinitely to undergo heart tests in Arizona, according to a USA Today report. That news came Wednesday afternoon, a day after the Sox announced that La Russa wouldn’t be in the dugout for that night’s game against the Royals because of unspecified medical reasons. We don’t have many details, but it’s safe to say that whatever has happened to him is serious enough to take a single-minded manager away from the game he loves.
