NOTE: Here’s the latest in my series of nuggets on the 2019 White Sox 40-man roster, which began 40 days out from Opening Day
If Yolmer Sanchez had played second base in 2018, his 34 doubles would have been tied for the sixth-highest output at the position in club annals.
11 days to Opening Day, White Sox fans!
The White Sox unretired No. 11 for the 2010 season so Omar Vizquel could wear it as a tribute to his hero, Hall of Famer and fellow shortstop Luis Aparicio.
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NOTE: Here’s the latest in my series of nuggets on the 2019 White Sox 40-man roster, which began 40 days out from Opening Day
When Jose Rondon when made his big league debut for the Padres on July 29, 2016, he did so as a pinch-hitter for former Sox pitcher Edwin Jackson.
The shortstop for the Padres in that game for the Reds was Alexei Ramirez.
12 days to Opening Day, White Sox fans!
To prove that he was more than just a revolutionary surgery and that he was an excellent pitcher before said surgery, I put forth the nugget that Tommy John topped the 1970 Sox with 12 wins.
That team won 56 all year.
NOTE: Here’s the latest in my series of nuggets on the 2019 White Sox 40-man roster, which began 40 days out from Opening Day
Only Carlos May and Chet Lemon hit more homers at a younger age than 23-year old Yoan Moncada’s 17 last season.
May hit 18 homers at age 21 in 1969 and Lemon clubbed 19 at age 22 in 1977.
13 days to Opening Day, White Sox fans!
No. 13 Ozzie Guillen played 13 seasons for the White Sox and then managed the team for eight more seasons.
Is his number the next to be retired?
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Yonder Alonso hit his first big league homer for the Reds off Carlos Zambrano on Aug. 6, 2011 at Wrigley Field.
Alonso has also gone deep off the likes of Colorado’s Jon Garland, Seattle’s Hector Noesi, Cleveland’s Trevor Bauer, the Mets Matt Harvey, San Francisco’s Madison Bumgarner, the Cubs’ Edwin Jackson, Arizona’s Brandon McCarthy, the Mets’ Bartolo Colon, San Francisco’s Jake Peavy, the Sox James Shields, and the Yankees Aroldis Chapman.
