White Sox trying to 'pull together' after falling apart early in season

The White Sox did not issue any news releases Tuesday.

That means they did not fire manager Robin Ventura.

They did not make any trades.

They did not release any of the multitude of players that are off to poor starts.

Off to a disappointing 8-14 heading into the first of three games against the Detroit Tigers at U.S. Cellular Field, the Sox are giving themselves more time to turn things around.

"In terms of making a move just to make a move, that's how you get yourself into trouble," general manager Rick Hahn said. "You start making things out of desperation, you start moving away from a good thought process and you wind up perhaps doing more damage, not just for the short term but even the long term.

"While we're looking at different alternatives internal or external in terms of making a move, this is the team we want out there right now."

Those are the two key words for the White Sox - right now.

How much longer Hahn waits before finding a new manager, coaches or players is up to the Sox. Unlike the last two seasons, when they were in rebuild mode, the 2015 White Sox are supposed to put up a fight.

They landed a few blows over the opening month - many to themselves - while performing like one of the most underachieving teams in baseball.

That already has put Robin Ventura on an obviously hot seat, but Hahn said the manager is not solely to blame.

"I don't think it's appropriate to sit here and say, 'This guy is getting sent to the minors' or 'That guy is getting traded' or 'This guy is going to be replaced,' " Hahn said. "Anyone, whether it's a player, a coach, a manager, a scout, a front-office person, we're all in this together. In times of adversity I think it's more important for us to pull together and reinforce what we're doing as a unit than to say anything specific about any individual."

Ventura doesn't pay too much attention to what's being said outside of the clubhouse, but he understands all the early angst surrounding the White Sox.

"Everybody's frustrated," Ventura said. "We're frustrated, too. I get it. I'm frustrated. You understand where people lash out and why they do it. Again, that doesn't stop what we're trying to do here and the focus on playing the Tigers."

The White Sox played with much more focus against Detroit than they did while losing four straight at Minnesota and being outscored 31-8 before returning to the Cell.

"It's been very difficult to watch over the last several days," Hahn said before Tuesday's game. "It has been unacceptable from our perspective and I understand from a fan perspective. But a week ago we had talked right after the doubleheader against Kansas City and the consensus was this was a good team starting to come together."

For as bad as they've been early, the Sox still see plenty of good in the long season that lies ahead.

"We are ready to fight and ready to win a couple of games here and get back on the right foot," said center fielder Adam Eaton, who was back in the lineup Tuesday after missing the last three games with a flu/virus and 103-degree temperature.

"It has been a really weird two weeks or so for this club, but we are searching for it and we are going to find it, and when we do we are going to be happy to run with it."

Eaton said the White Sox, not Ventura, are to blame for the sluggish start.

"It's not his fault, it's ours," Eaton said. "It's always the players' fault. It's never fun when the manager gets the brunt of everything. He's a great manager. From my standpoint, he's the type of manager you need in the clubhouse. A coolheaded manager that doesn't come in here after every loss and preach to us about how we should have done stuff.

"But when something needs to be said he says it. We hear it and we apply it immediately because he says it. He doesn't say it very much."

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