LAS VEGAS -- Rick Renteria features a no-nonsense style of managing, which is fair and even-handed, employed to grow a winning culture for the White Sox organization. In his two years at the helm, Renteria has been known to pull players from a game who aren't giving the needed effort on occasion.
Renteria certainly isn't looking to remove a player or embarrass him in the process. But that style won't change even if the White Sox add a premium free agent with the high-end accomplishments and high-salaried multi-year deals outfielder Bryce Harper and infielder Manny Machado likely will command.
"Everybody has to be comfortable with me making an action like that. And when I do, I think we'll be backed," Renteria said during his Winter Meetings manager's interview session Tuesday at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. "There are going to be situations in which I might have to have conversations with guys that are coming from the outside.

"But I will venture to say this, I've said it enough publicly, they know how we want to play the game here. I think anybody who is thinking or contemplating becoming a White Sox, they know we go about it a certain way. I think the beauty of it now is that I can have players deal with players, which is what we've been trying to get to. Ultimately, they're going to be able to police themselves."
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Catching on with the White Sox
Welington Castillo currently sits No. 1 at catcher on the White Sox depth chart.
No. 8 prospect Zack Collins and No. 22 Seby Zavala also fall firmly in the picture behind the plate. But White Sox general manager Rick Hahn made clear Tuesday neither of those two players is Major League ready, leaving the White Sox looking for another veteran backstop after losing Kevan Smith on a waiver claim to the Angels and trading Omar Narvaez to the Mariners for closer Alex Colome this offseason.

That catching addition might be more than a backup even with Castillo in place, as various reports Tuesday linked Chicago's interest to free agent Yasmani Grandal.
"We've got Wely coming back, and he's certainly capable of being the everyday catcher, whether in this day and age that means 100 games or 110 games or whatever," Hahn said. "At the same time, let's see what else we potentially wind up bringing in.
"If we find a way to make ourselves better and the new catcher takes up a little bit more of the playing time over the course of the season, that's fine. Ricky's going to put the best guy out there in any given situation."
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Hahn won't rush the catching pursuit, pointing out there's a fair amount available on the market at this position.
"We have a shorter list as to what we're looking for and who we think would fit and why, and if the right thing lines up, then we'll move on it," Hahn said. "We do have some preferences among the options that are out there in free agency and trade."