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MVPito

On Thursday night, White Sox first baseman Jose Abreu took home MVP honors. becoming the fourth White Sox player to receive the award.  He received 21 first-place votes after leading the American League in hits, RBI, total bases, slugging percentage, and extra base hits.  The 2014 Rookie of the Year, he became just the 28th player to nab both awards.

Abreu follows Nellie Fox, Dick Allen, and Frank Thomas in winning the award for the White Sox and Zolio Versalles and Jose Canseco as Cuban-born winners.

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#198 – Jose Canseco

JCansecoName: Jose Canseco

Rank: 198

Position: DH

Year With White Sox: 2001

When Frank Thomas went down for the season in late April of 2001, the defending AL Central champs found themselves needing some help offensively.  On June 21, they turned to former all star, and current Newark Bear, Jose Canseco.

Canseco appeared in 76 games for the White Sox as they fell to third place in the Central division.  He put up respectable numbers, hitting .258 with 16 home runs.  Following the season, he became a free agent and, after a brief stint in the Expos organization, he returned to the White Sox in 2002, appearing in 18 games for Triple A Charlotte.  At the end of the season, he was released.

Canseco’s numbers in a White Sox uniform, both for games I attended and overall, were:

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