{"id":16560,"date":"2020-11-15T02:02:56","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T08:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=16560"},"modified":"2020-11-14T12:11:45","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T18:11:45","slug":"by-the-numbers-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/by-the-numbers-88\/","title":{"rendered":"By The Numbers \u2013 88"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/cws-chi.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7973 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/cws-chi.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/cws-chi.jpeg 500w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/cws-chi-300x182.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>In 1929, uniform numbers appeared on the back of baseball jerseys for the first time, thanks to the Indians and the Yankees.\u00a0 By 1937, numbers finally appeared across all uniforms, both home and away, across both major leagues.\u00a0 Since that time, 81 distinct numbers have been worn by members of the White Sox, while the Cubs boast 76.<\/p>\n<p>Today, we continue our look at those players, picking our favorite, if not the best, player to wear each uniform number for both Chicago teams with #88.\u00a0 Once again, a single player has donned #88 while playing in Chicago, for the 2020 White Sox.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/robert.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16644\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/robert.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/robert.jpg 648w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/robert-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/a>Luis Robert was signed by the White Sox as a 19 year old in 2017 after he defected from Cuba.\u00a0 He made his major league debut on Opening Day 2020, earning Rookie of the Month for August and placing second in Rookie of the Year voting, despite a September swoon that left him with a .233 batting average and .738 OPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1929, uniform numbers appeared on the back of baseball jerseys for the first time, thanks to the Indians and the Yankees.\u00a0 By 1937, numbers finally appeared across all uniforms, both home and away, across both major leagues.\u00a0 Since that time, 81 distinct numbers have been worn by members of the White Sox, while the [&hellip;]<\/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":[120,115,8123,6580,49,51],"class_list":["post-16560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-cubs","tag-indians","tag-luis-robert","tag-rookie-of-the-year-award","tag-white-sox","tag-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16560","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=16560"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16645,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16560\/revisions\/16645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}