The Chicago White Sox Did Not Intentionally Slight Keynan Middleton
By Kyle Koster

People couldn't help but notice that New York Yankees reliever Keynan Middleton's name was nowhere to be found on the Guaranteed Rate scoreboards last night. And they couldn't help but wonder if it was intentional after the former White Sox player ripped the culture on the South Side.
The White Sox didn’t put Keynan Middleton’s name on the scoreboard after he trashed the team’s culture after being traded pic.twitter.com/giyKRD7gmU
— Talkin’ Baseball (@TalkinBaseball_) August 10, 2023
That would have been a good story and one of the lamest bits of revenge ever but it turns out that there's a much more boring explanation for how a guy who has thrown 185 innings over a seven-year career and wears jersey No. 93 was not properly identified.
From White Sox regarding omission of Keynan Middleton’s name on scoreboard last night: pic.twitter.com/fXGlf3cxJ3
— Daryl Van Schouwen (@CST_soxvan) August 10, 2023
Regarding the Keynan Middleton scoreboard ‘issue’ tonight:
— Ryan McGuffey (@RyanMcGuffey) August 10, 2023
I’m told emphatically that it wasn’t intentional. Every ballpark gets a feed directly from MLB & the Yankees have two #93’s on 40-man, Middleton & minor leaguer Everson Pereira. Caused the outage. #WhiteSox
If you think about it, intentionally slighting a player who as accused the organization of being a mess would be a very weird way to prove that his allegations were false. It would also rely on enough people noticing what was happening on the video boards to create a stir — which happened here yet easily could have been entirely missed because everyone's so buried in their phones nowadays that they don't even look at the out-of-town scoreboard.
Nothing to see here. In this one, specific case the White Sox do not deserve any criticism.