
LAS VEGAS — The White Sox have so much riding on bounceback seasons from underperformers.
Their 2023 hopes have been pinned on new manager Pedro Grifol’s ability to inject new life into a clubhouse, his acceptance of analytics information coming from the baseball operations department, being a “stickler for defense” and other basic fundamentals of winning baseball and doing whatever hangs from his tool belt to make players perform to levels they’re handsomely paid for.