White Sox fire bench coach Mark Parent

Scott Merkin of MLB.com reports that bench coach Mark Parent has been fired, effective immediately, which means the White Sox felt strongly that he shouldn’t be allowed to coach the final three games of the season.

Parent found out his contract wasn’t being renewed following the Sox’s loss to the Kansas City Royals last night.

“I’m accountable for what I had to do”, Parent said in a phone interview with the Chicago Tribune.

Parent is the second coach of Ventura’s to be dismissed in four seasons. The White Sox are scuffling along at 74-85 this season, but it appears Ventura will have another year to try to work that into a winning record. “I thought I did a pretty good job at this”.

Parent, 54, managed two seasons in the Philadelphia Phillies organization (2010-11) before joining the White Sox in manager Robin Ventura’s first season.

He said he hopes to remain in baseball.

“If I didn’t feel, if we didn’t feel as an organization that Robin had the ability to be a championship-caliber manager, he wouldn’t be here”, Hahn said. “I retired (before). Being retired was boring”.