{"id":12640,"date":"2017-07-22T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2017-07-22T15:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=12640"},"modified":"2017-07-22T08:19:39","modified_gmt":"2017-07-22T14:19:39","slug":"19-greg-luzinski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/19-greg-luzinski\/","title":{"rendered":"#19 – Greg Luzinski"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Name:<\/strong>\u00a0Greg Luzinski<\/p>\n

Rank:<\/strong>\u00a019<\/p>\n

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

Years With White Sox:<\/strong>\u00a01981-1984<\/p>\n

With a new ownership group in place and looking to make a splash, the White Sox purchased Greg Luzinski from the Phillies on March 30, 1981. \u00a0Coming off a disappointing season, the Chicago-area native responded well to the change, hitting .265 with 21 home runs in the strike-shortened season. \u00a0He earned Comeback Player of the Year honors, beating out teammate Bill Almon by 5 votes, and finished 23rd in MVP voting.<\/p>\n

Luzinski had another strong year in 1982. \u00a0He raised his average to .292, his highest total since 1977, while hitting 18 home runs and driving in 102 runs.<\/p>\n

In 1983, Luzinski was a powerful cog in leading the White Sox to their first division title.\u00a0 He launched the 8th, 9th, and 10th rooftop home runs in Comiskey Park history between June 26 and August 28.\u00a0 While his average dropped to .255, he hit 32 home runs and drove in 95, good enough to finish 17th in MVP voting.\u00a0 Like the rest of his teammates, he struggled during the ALCS against the Orioles, hitting only .133 in the 4 game series.<\/p>\n

Those struggles carried over in to 1984.\u00a0 His average dropped again, to .238, and his power output fell as well.\u00a0 He finished the year with only 13 home runs, his lowest total since 1974, and 58 RBIs, though he did manage to hit his fourth rooftop blast on July 3 against the Tigers.\u00a0 He became a free agent following the year and decided to retire.<\/p>\n

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

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Name:\u00a0Greg Luzinski Rank:\u00a019 Position:\u00a0DH Years With White Sox:\u00a01981-1984 With a new ownership group in place and looking to make a splash, the White Sox purchased Greg Luzinski from the Phillies on March 30, 1981. \u00a0Coming off a disappointing season, the Chicago-area native responded well to the change, hitting .265 with 21 home runs in the […]<\/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":[5205,2790,7526,7525,597,7524,79,50,254,230,49],"class_list":["post-12640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-1981-strike","tag-alcs","tag-bill-almon","tag-comeback-player-of-the-year","tag-comiskey-park","tag-greg-luzinski","tag-mvp","tag-orioles","tag-phillies","tag-tigers","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12640","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=12640"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12727,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12640\/revisions\/12727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12640"}],"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
0.200<\/span><\/td>\n5<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n2<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
0.265<\/span><\/td>\n1875<\/span><\/td>\n262<\/span><\/td>\n496<\/span><\/td>\n317<\/span><\/td>\n273<\/span><\/td>\n397<\/span><\/td>\n91<\/span><\/td>\n3<\/span><\/td>\n84<\/span><\/td>\n8<\/span><\/td>\n50<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n532<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n