{"id":16586,"date":"2021-02-07T08:20:32","date_gmt":"2021-02-07T14:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=16586"},"modified":"2021-01-17T16:38:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T22:38:10","slug":"by-the-numbers-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/by-the-numbers-68\/","title":{"rendered":"By The Numbers \u2013 68"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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

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 #68.\u00a0 5 players have donned #71 while playing in Chicago, 6 for the White Sox and 1 for the Cubs.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Jorge Soler was originally signed by the Cubs as an amateur free agent in 2012.\u00a0 Part of the so-called Core Four, the prospects meant to finally lead the Cubs to post-season glory, Soler made his major league debut on August 27, 2014, going 2 for 4 with a home run and 2 RBIs against the Reds.\u00a0 He became the primary right fielder in 2015, starting 95 games and putting up a .723 OPS as the Cubs made a surprising run to the NLCS before falling to the Mets.\u00a0 With Jason Heyward on board in 2016, Soler saw most of his playing time in left field, filling in for the injured Kyle Schwarber.\u00a0 While he struggled during the regular season, he made the most of his World Series opportunity, hitting .400 against the Indians in his 2 appearances.\u00a0 After achieving that initial goal of a World Series title, Soler was sent to the Royals for closer Wade Davis.<\/p>\n

The pickings are slim on the south side of town for players wearing #68.\u00a0 Dylan Covey wore it the most, going 6-29 over his 3 seasons with the White Sox after being acquired as a Rule 5 draft choice out of the A’s organization.\u00a0 He was thankfully let go following the 2019 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/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":[6980,123,5034,120,8574,115,2089,5047,5101,261,1647,53,126,5560,4045,49,51],"class_list":["post-16586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-2016-world-series","tag-as","tag-core-four","tag-cubs","tag-dylan-covey","tag-indians","tag-jason-heyward","tag-jorge-soler","tag-kyle-schwarber","tag-mets","tag-nlcs","tag-reds","tag-royals","tag-rule-5-draft","tag-wade-davis","tag-white-sox","tag-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16586","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=16586"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16997,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16586\/revisions\/16997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}