{"id":356759,"date":"2025-11-05T05:51:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T05:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/356759\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T05:51:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T05:51:11","slug":"white-sox-hire-zach-bove-as-pitching-coach-replacing-ethan-katz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/356759\/","title":{"rendered":"White Sox hire Zach Bove as pitching coach, replacing Ethan Katz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ESPN logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/origin-espn.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, November 5, 2025 3:48AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">CHICAGO &#8212; The <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/chw\/chicago-white-sox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chicago White Sox<\/a> have hired Zach Bove to be their next pitching coach, the team announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The 37-year-old Bove takes over for Ethan Katz, whose contract wasn&#8217;t renewed after a five-year run with the organization. Bove has spent the past three seasons as an assistant pitching coach for the division rival <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/kc\/kansas-city-royals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kansas City Royals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Royals had a 3.73 ERA in 2025, which ranked sixth in the big leagues. Bove also spent four seasons in the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/min\/minnesota-twins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Minnesota Twins<\/a> organization from 2019 to 2022, serving in various minor league roles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The White Sox also announced that Matt Wise will return next season for his third season as the bullpen coach. Chicago&#8217;s bullpen threw a franchise-record 657 1\/3 innings in 2025, which was the second most in the majors, and had 645 strikeouts, which ranked fourth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The White Sox finished with a 60-102 record last season under first-year manager Will Venable. It was the franchise&#8217;s third straight 100-loss season.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday, November 5, 2025 3:48AM CHICAGO &#8212; The Chicago White Sox have hired Zach Bove to be their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":356760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[173917,1274,5723,1284,1266,50,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-356759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-173917","9":"tag-chicago-white-sox","10":"tag-espn","11":"tag-kansas-city-royals","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115495533932318027","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}