{"id":7389,"date":"2015-02-12T09:04:54","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T15:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=7389"},"modified":"2015-02-12T19:36:31","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T01:36:31","slug":"171-tim-hulett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/171-tim-hulett\/","title":{"rendered":"#171 – Tim Hulett"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"dpccwshule_20080716139\"<\/a>Name:<\/strong>\u00a0Tim Hulett<\/p>\n

Rank:<\/strong>\u00a0171<\/p>\n

Position:<\/strong>\u00a02B\/3B<\/p>\n

Years With White Sox:<\/strong>\u00a01983-1987<\/p>\n

Tim Hulett joined the White Sox organization as their first round pick in the 1980 January secondary draft. \u00a0He made his major league debut on September 15, 1983, replacing Julio Cruz in the White Sox 12-0 victory over the Mariners. \u00a0Hulett ended up appearing in 6 games for the AL West champions, getting 1 hit in 5 at bats.<\/p>\n

Hulett returned to Triple A Denver for the 1984 season, again earning a late season call-up. \u00a0This time he appeared in 8 games, going hitless in 7 at bats.<\/p>\n

1985 saw Hulett getting his first extended shot in the big leagues. \u00a0Splitting time between second base and third base, he found his way into 141 games and hit .268. \u00a0In 1986, Hulett found himself as the opening day second baseman, but, while he set career highs in games, at bats, and home runs, his average fell to .231.<\/p>\n

Hulett was the opening day third baseman in 1987, but things turned south quickly. \u00a0After being one of the few bright spots on the team in April, hitting .294 with 3 home runs, he fell of a cliff. \u00a0He hit .194 in May and .196 in June, before he was demoted to Triple A on June 26. \u00a0He returned for 3 games in August before returning to the minors for the rest of the year. \u00a0“I went bad at the wrong time,” said Hulett, who finished the season with a .217 batting average. “Five guys went bad the first month, but the team was still patient. I went bad the second month, but the team wasn`t patient anymore. I guess my timing was bad.”<\/p>\n

When spring training of 1988 arrived, Hulett found himself off the 40-man roster and he was given a non-roster invite to camp. \u00a0“I have no chance here,” Hulett said. \u00a0“I`m at the stage in my career where I don`t have two or three years to waste in the minors. My confidence is a lot better this year. I know I can play in the big leagues. I just want to get a chance to prove it.” \u00a0He would not get a chance to prove it with the White Sox, though. \u00a0Prior to the start of the season, Hulett was traded to the Expos for a player to be named later.<\/p>\n

Hulett\u2019s numbers in a White Sox uniform, both for games I attended and overall, were:<\/p>\n

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Career Batting<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/tfoot>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Name:\u00a0Tim Hulett Rank:\u00a0171 Position:\u00a02B\/3B Years With White Sox:\u00a01983-1987 Tim Hulett joined the White Sox organization as their first round pick in the 1980 January secondary draft. \u00a0He made his major league debut on September 15, 1983, replacing Julio Cruz in the White Sox 12-0 victory over the Mariners. \u00a0Hulett ended up appearing in 6 games […]<\/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":[3842,259,5261,124,3699,49],"class_list":["post-7389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-denver-zephyrs","tag-expos","tag-julio-cruz","tag-mariners","tag-tim-hulett","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7389","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=7389"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7433,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7389\/revisions\/7433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

BA<\/span><\/th>\nAt Bats<\/span><\/th>\nRuns<\/span><\/th>\nHits<\/span><\/th>\nRBI<\/span><\/th>\nWalks<\/span><\/th>\nStrike Outs<\/span><\/th>\nDoubles<\/span><\/th>\nTriples<\/span><\/th>\nHR<\/span><\/th>\nSB<\/span><\/th>\nGIDP<\/span><\/th>\nErrors<\/span><\/th>\nGames<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
0.400<\/span><\/td>\n10<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n4<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n4<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n3<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
0.239<\/span><\/td>\n1167<\/span><\/td>\n126<\/span><\/td>\n279<\/span><\/td>\n109<\/span><\/td>\n62<\/span><\/td>\n217<\/span><\/td>\n45<\/span><\/td>\n9<\/span><\/td>\n29<\/span><\/td>\n12<\/span><\/td>\n25<\/span><\/td>\n50<\/span><\/td>\n373<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n