{"id":5963,"date":"2014-05-17T07:42:16","date_gmt":"2014-05-17T13:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=5963"},"modified":"2014-05-11T18:48:54","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T00:48:54","slug":"230-don-slaught","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/230-don-slaught\/","title":{"rendered":"#230 &#8211; Don Slaught"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Don-Slaught-1996-White-Sox.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5964\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Don-Slaught-1996-White-Sox.jpg\" alt=\"Don Slaught (1996 White Sox)\" width=\"270\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>Name:<\/strong>\u00a0Don Slaught<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>Rank:<\/strong>\u00a0230<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>Position:<\/strong>\u00a0C<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>Year With White Sox:<\/strong>\u00a01996<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\">Don Slaught joined the White Sox via an August 31, 1996 trade with the Angels in exchange for a player to be named later. \u00a0With the White Sox battling for a playoff spot, and catcher Ron Karkovice suffering from a sore knee, they needed another catcher to take the load off of Pat Borders, who had also been acquired from the Angels earlier in the year.<\/p>\n<p>He appeared in 14 games in the final month, batting .250, as the White Sox fell out of contention, finishing 3 games out of the wild card race. \u00a0Following the year, Slaught left as a free agent.<\/p>\n<p>Slaught&#8217;s numbers in a White Sox uniform were:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th bgcolor=\"#c0c0c0\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;\">BA<\/span><\/th>\n<th bgcolor=\"#c0c0c0\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;\">At Bats<\/span><\/th>\n<th bgcolor=\"#c0c0c0\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;\">Runs<\/span><\/th>\n<th bgcolor=\"#c0c0c0\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;\">Hits<\/span><\/th>\n<th bgcolor=\"#c0c0c0\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;\">RBI<\/span><\/th>\n<th bgcolor=\"#c0c0c0\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;\">Walks<\/span><\/th>\n<th bgcolor=\"#c0c0c0\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;\">Strike Outs<\/span><\/th>\n<th bgcolor=\"#c0c0c0\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;\">Doubles<\/span><\/th>\n<th bgcolor=\"#c0c0c0\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;\">Triples<\/span><\/th>\n<th bgcolor=\"#c0c0c0\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;\">HR<\/span><\/th>\n<th bgcolor=\"#c0c0c0\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;\">SB<\/span><\/th>\n<th bgcolor=\"#c0c0c0\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;\">GIDP<\/span><\/th>\n<th bgcolor=\"#c0c0c0\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;\">Errors<\/span><\/th>\n<th bgcolor=\"#c0c0c0\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;\">Games<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;\">0.250<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: 15px;\">36<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: 15px;\">2<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: 15px;\">9<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: 15px;\">4<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: 15px;\">2<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;\">2<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: 15px;\">1<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: 15px;\">0<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: 15px;\">0<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;\">0<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;\">4<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;\">1<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: 15px;\">14<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<tfoot><\/tfoot>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name:\u00a0Don Slaught Rank:\u00a0230 Position:\u00a0C Year With White Sox:\u00a01996 Don Slaught joined the White Sox via an August 31, 1996 trade with the Angels in exchange for a player to be named later. \u00a0With the White Sox battling for a playoff spot, and catcher Ron Karkovice suffering from a sore knee, they needed another catcher to [&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":[110,4717,4178,4621,49],"class_list":["post-5963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-angels","tag-don-slaught","tag-pat-borders","tag-ron-karkovice","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5963","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=5963"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6028,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5963\/revisions\/6028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}