{"id":8212,"date":"2015-06-27T08:37:13","date_gmt":"2015-06-27T14:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=8212"},"modified":"2015-06-13T16:53:32","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T22:53:32","slug":"147-matt-merullo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/147-matt-merullo\/","title":{"rendered":"#147 – Matt Merullo"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Name:<\/strong>\u00a0Matt Merullo<\/p>\n

Rank:<\/strong>\u00a0147<\/p>\n

Position:<\/strong>\u00a0C<\/p>\n

Years With White Sox:<\/strong>\u00a01989, 1991-1993<\/p>\n

Matt Merullo was selected by the White Sox in the 7th round of the 1986 draft. \u00a0When Carlton Fisk broke his hand days in to the 1989 season, Merullo got his chance with the big league club. \u00a0He made his major league debut on April 12, 1989, going hitless in one at bat against the Mariners. \u00a02 days later, he made his first start in the White Sox home opener, and notched his first hit, his first home run, and his first caught stealing behind the plate. \u00a0 He got in to 31 games total that season, hitting .222 in 81 at bats with that lone home run.<\/p>\n

A knee injury, plus the continued presence of Fisk and Ron Karkovice, kept Merullo in Birmingham in 1990. \u00a0He split the 1991 season between Double A and the big leagues, appearing in a career high 80 games despite hitting only .229.<\/p>\n

1992 saw Merullo splitting time between Triple A and the White Sox, and he only made it in to 24 games with the big league club. \u00a0He spent the majority of 1993 back in Triple A, playing only 8 games with the White Sox, hitting an anemic .050.<\/p>\n

With spring training winding down in 1994, Merullo was dealt to the Indians.<\/p>\n

Merullo’s\u00a0numbers 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:\u00a0Matt Merullo Rank:\u00a0147 Position:\u00a0C Years With White Sox:\u00a01989, 1991-1993 Matt Merullo was selected by the White Sox in the 7th round of the 1986 draft. \u00a0When Carlton Fisk broke his hand days in to the 1989 season, Merullo got his chance with the big league club. \u00a0He made his major league debut on April 12, […]<\/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":[898,2789,2501,115,124,5700,49],"class_list":["post-8212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-birmingham-barons","tag-carlton-fisk","tag-draft","tag-indians","tag-mariners","tag-matt-merullo","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8212","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=8212"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8285,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8212\/revisions\/8285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8212"}],"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
0.667<\/span><\/td>\n3<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n2<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n2<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
0.206<\/span><\/td>\n291<\/span><\/td>\n17<\/span><\/td>\n60<\/span><\/td>\n32<\/span><\/td>\n16<\/span><\/td>\n41<\/span><\/td>\n3<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n6<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n4<\/span><\/td>\n7<\/span><\/td>\n143<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n