{"id":546884,"date":"2026-01-31T01:33:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T01:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/546884\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T01:33:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T01:33:15","slug":"chicago-white-sox-tab-midland-high-grad-jayson-nix-as-single-a-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/546884\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago White Sox tab Midland High grad Jayson Nix as Single-A Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">KANNAPOLIS, North Carolina (KOSA) &#8211; Midland High alum Jayson Nix spent 7 seasons in Major League Baseball. It was announced on Friday that the former Rockies first-rounder was named the manager of the White Sox Single-A team, the Kannapolis Cannon Ballers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Nix retired from playing in 2015 and became a scout for the Los Angeles Angels in 2017, transitioning to coaching four years later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Now, he takes over as the manager in Single-A Kannapolis in the White Sox organization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">During his playing career, Jayson Nix played 118 games for Chicago over about a season and a half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In 2025, Kannapolis missed the Carolina League postseason, finishing with the worst combined record in the South Division over the first and second half of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The 2026 season, under Jayson Nix, starts on April 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KOSA. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KANNAPOLIS, North Carolina (KOSA) &#8211; Midland High alum Jayson Nix spent 7 seasons in Major League Baseball. It&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2390],"tags":[291,5,49,72181,2578,1165,446,3223,774,56,3224,3222,72182,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-546884","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-angels","8":"tag-angels","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-chicago-white-sox","11":"tag-jayson-nix-baseball-manager","12":"tag-kannapolis-cannon-ballers","13":"tag-la","14":"tag-la-angels","15":"tag-laangels","16":"tag-los-angeles","17":"tag-los-angeles-angels","18":"tag-losangeles","19":"tag-losangelesangels","20":"tag-midland-high-bulldogs","21":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115987140704916076","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}