{"id":16582,"date":"2021-01-17T08:18:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T14:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=16582"},"modified":"2020-11-24T08:44:02","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T14:44:02","slug":"by-the-numbers-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/by-the-numbers-71\/","title":{"rendered":"By The Numbers \u2013 71"},"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 #71.\u00a0 5 players have donned #71 while playing in Chicago, 3 for the White Sox and 2 for the Cubs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/wadedavis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16700\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/wadedavis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/wadedavis.jpg 900w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/wadedavis-300x147.jpg 300w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/wadedavis-768x377.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a>Wade Davis was acquired by the Cubs prior to the 2017 season to replace Aroldis Chapman and help the Cubs defend their first World Series title in 108 years.\u00a0 He set a franchise record with 27 consecutive saves.\u00a0 He tied a LDS record by notching saves in all 3 Cub victories.\u00a0 Following the season, he left as a free agent.<\/p>\n<p>Jace Fry donned #71 when called up by the White Sox in 2017.\u00a0 His 10.80 ERA in 11 games was not great.\u00a0 When he changed his number the following year, his numbers also improved.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure there was no correlation between the two.<\/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":[6980,6990,120,115,7991,1646,4045,49,51],"class_list":["post-16582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-2016-world-series","tag-aroldis-chapman","tag-cubs","tag-indians","tag-jace-fry","tag-nlds","tag-wade-davis","tag-white-sox","tag-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16582","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=16582"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16701,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16582\/revisions\/16701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}