{"id":10427,"date":"2016-07-09T09:14:42","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T15:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=10427"},"modified":"2016-07-08T20:56:03","modified_gmt":"2016-07-09T02:56:03","slug":"79-julio-franco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/79-julio-franco\/","title":{"rendered":"#79 – Julio Franco"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"jfranco\"<\/a>Name:<\/strong>\u00a0Julio Franco<\/p>\n

Rank:<\/strong>\u00a079<\/p>\n

Position:<\/strong>\u00a0DH<\/p>\n

Year With White Sox:<\/strong>\u00a01994<\/p>\n

Following the 1993 season, Julio Franco signed with the White Sox as a free agent, as the team looked to head to the playoffs for the second consecutive season. \u00a0As the White Sox sat atop the newly created AL Central, Franco had one of the best seasons of his career, setting career highs with 20 home runs and 98 RBIs when the season ended prematurely on August 11th due to the strike. \u00a0After the season was officially cancelled on September 14th, Franco earned 8th place in MVP voting and took home the Silver Slugger award. \u00a0With the work stoppage spilling in to 1995, Franco signed to play in Japan, ending his tenure with the White Sox.<\/p>\n

Franco’s\u00a0numbers in a White Sox uniform, both for games I attended and overall, were:<\/p>\n

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Name:\u00a0Julio Franco Rank:\u00a079 Position:\u00a0DH Year With White Sox:\u00a01994 Following the 1993 season, Julio Franco signed with the White Sox as a free agent, as the team looked to head to the playoffs for the second consecutive season. \u00a0As the White Sox sat atop the newly created AL Central, Franco had one of the best seasons […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[77,2774,79,5984,49],"class_list":["post-10427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-1994-strike","tag-julio-franco","tag-mvp","tag-silver-slugger","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10427"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10610,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10427\/revisions\/10610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

Career Batting<\/b><\/caption>\n
BA<\/span><\/th>\nAt Bats<\/span><\/th>\nRuns<\/span><\/th>\nHits<\/span><\/th>\nRBI<\/span><\/th>\nWalks<\/span><\/th>\nStrike Outs<\/span><\/th>\nDoubles<\/span><\/th>\nTriples<\/span><\/th>\nHR<\/span><\/th>\nSB<\/span><\/th>\nGIDP<\/span><\/th>\nErrors<\/span><\/th>\nGames<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
0.000<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n2<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
0.319<\/span><\/td>\n433<\/span><\/td>\n72<\/span><\/td>\n138<\/span><\/td>\n98<\/span><\/td>\n62<\/span><\/td>\n75<\/span><\/td>\n19<\/span><\/td>\n2<\/span><\/td>\n20<\/span><\/td>\n8<\/span><\/td>\n14<\/span><\/td>\n3<\/span><\/td>\n112<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n