{"id":17309,"date":"2021-06-27T01:02:59","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T07:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=17309"},"modified":"2021-05-09T10:47:26","modified_gmt":"2021-05-09T16:47:26","slug":"by-the-numbers-49","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/by-the-numbers-49\/","title":{"rendered":"By The Numbers \u2013 49"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/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

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 #49.\u00a0 60 different players have donned #49 while playing in Chicago, 36 for the White Sox and 24 for the Cubs.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Chris Sale, the 13th overall selection by the White Sox in the 2010 draft, pitched 11 games in the minor leagues before making his major league debut on August 6, less than 2 months after being drafted.\u00a0 Sale worked out of the bullpen for the remainder of the year, earning 4 saves in 21 appearances. Sale returned to the bullpen in 2011, picking up another 8 saves while posting a 2.79 ERA.\u00a0 In 2012, Sale moved in to the starting rotation full time, where he racked up 5 straight All Star nods and finished between 3rd and 6th in Cy Young award voting each season.\u00a0 In 2015, Sale set the White Sox franchise record with 274 strike outs and, in 2016, he tied his career high with 17 victories and threw a career high 226 2\/3 innings pitched in between spats with the front office over Drake LaRoche and 1970s throwback jerseys.\u00a0 That\u00a0December, the rebuilding of the White Sox began when Sale was traded to the Red Sox for, among others, Yoan Moncada and Michael Kopech.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Jake Arrieta was originally acquired by the Cubs in July of 2013, coming over from the Orioles, along with Pedro Strop, in a trade for Scott Feldman and Steve Clevenger.\u00a0 After 7 starts for Iowa, Arrieta joined the rebuilding Cubs and showed vast improvement over the pitcher he was with the Orioles.\u00a0 He turned into an ace for the Cubs in 2015, winning the NL Cy Young Award, and was a key contributor to their World Series championship in 2016.\u00a0 He threw two no-hitters for the team, one in 2015 against the Dodgers and the second in 2016 against the Reds.\u00a0 He became a free agent following the 2017 season, but returned in 2021.<\/p>\n

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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 […]<\/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":[6980,574,120,1672,116,2501,7031,115,5735,7028,50,7497,258,53,6206,2198,49,51,7027],"class_list":["post-17309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-2016-world-series","tag-chris-sale","tag-cubs","tag-cy-young-award","tag-dodgers","tag-draft","tag-drake-laroche","tag-indians","tag-jake-arrieta","tag-michael-kopech","tag-orioles","tag-pedro-strop","tag-red-sox","tag-reds","tag-scott-feldman","tag-steve-clevenger","tag-white-sox","tag-yankees","tag-yoan-moncada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17309","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=17309"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17388,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17309\/revisions\/17388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}