The new names, jobs of the 2023 White Sox player development staff

While the White Sox's major-league coaching staff experienced some rather significant changes with the hiring of Pedro Grifol and the shift to 2½ hitting coaches, the White Sox's farm system's shifts were much smaller in nature.

All of the White Sox's managers received promotions one level up, and while there are a couple new roles and a couple of noteworthy new names in full-season coaching positions -- see Winston-Salem and Kannapolis for details -- most of Chris Getz's system remains intact.

You can read the press release for the full list, but here's the annual look at who's in what role now, and who did that job last year.

PLAYER DEVELOPMENT STAFF

When this list came out last year, Jasmine Dunston's name jumped out, partially due to family ties (Shawon's daughter) and partially due to replacing Grace Guerrero Zwit, who had been in the White Sox's player-development ranks for 40 years. It made for a good story, but that particular arrangement seems to have lasted just one year, with Potoski getting a promotion from her senior coordinator position last year.

Among smaller shifts, the White Sox are putting a little bit more on Zaleski's plate, as they've given him an assistant pitching coordinator position along with his job as Charlotte's pitching coach. DeYoung was the hitting coach for the Arizona Complex League team, but they've created an entirely new role for him. Mosquero returns to the catching coordinator role, where he opened last season before he was tasked with managing Charlotte midseason.

ASSISTANTS TO PLAYER DEVELOPMENT

The only change here involves the last row. Last year, White Sox had an assistant of player development/Latin education (Grant Flick) and an education coordinator (Santana). If the new title is any indication, Santana now occupies a role of merged positions.

CHARLOTTE KNIGHTS

Jirschele resumes his upward trajectory, taking over for Wes Helms, who probably shouldn't have started the season with the Knights before he was placed on indefinite leave in May. Johnson's promotion to White Sox assistant hitting coach opened a spot for Cameron Seitzer. It feels worth pointing out now that he's the son of Atlanta Braves hitting coach Kevin Seitzer, who worked with new White Sox hitting coach José Castro for the last eight seasons.

BIRMINGHAM BARONS

Winston-Salem's entire coaching staff received a promotion to Birmingham, perhaps to maintain continuity for guys like Colson Montgomery and Bryan Ramos? It's hard to judge the coaches, especially since the Dash were starved of all compelling prospects over the final month of the season due to Project Birmingham, but the Sox don't seem to hold that against them. Richard Dotson isn't listed anywhere in the organization for the first time in a long time.

WINSTON-SALEM DASH

Qurizo and Ely received direct promotions from Kannapolis.

Krizan is new to the organization, and if nothing else, he has some things to teach prospects about persistence. He made his MLB debut last season at the age of 33 with the San Francisco Giants, more than 10 years and 1,100 minor-league games after the Detroit Tigers selected him in the eighth round of the 2011 draft. He went 1-for-8 with two walks and three strikeouts over three games, then returned to Triple-A for the rest of the season. He hit .316/.367/.492 in Sacramento, so he might want to stay ready if the White Sox need a left-handed corner outfielder.

KANNAPOLIS CANNON BALLERS

Leyland follows all the managers above him with a promotion while Romero, who received rave reviews for his work with José Rodríguez, Lenyn Sosa and Oscar Colás in Birmingham, will report two levels lower this season.

Hickman, an Amateur City Elite product out of Simeon High School who was selected by the White Sox out of the University of Iowa in the seventh round in the 2015 draft, never quite found a groove in his professional career after Tommy John surgery delayed it, is getting his first crack at coaching in A-ball.

ARIZONA COMPLEX LEAGUE

González makes his managerial debut this summer after serving as a development coach within the organization last year, while Olivares moves up from the DSL to replace DeYoung. The position of "fundamentals coach" is new.

DOMINICAN SUMMER LEAGUE

There are not two Julio Brunos (Brunoes?), it's the same Julio Bruno wearing two hats.