{"id":8934,"date":"2015-11-21T09:43:18","date_gmt":"2015-11-21T15:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=8934"},"modified":"2015-11-21T09:23:07","modified_gmt":"2015-11-21T15:23:07","slug":"126-brook-fordyce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/126-brook-fordyce\/","title":{"rendered":"#126 – Brook Fordyce"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Name:<\/strong>\u00a0Brook Fordyce<\/p>\n

Rank:<\/strong> 126<\/p>\n

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

Years With White Sox:<\/strong>\u00a01999-2000<\/p>\n

Brook Fordyce came to the White Sox via trade from the Reds towards the end of spring training in 1999.\u00a0 The defensively challenged catcher became the team’s starter, and put up the best offensive numbers of his career, finishing with a .297 average, 9 home runs and 49 RBIs.<\/p>\n

A broken foot during spring training delayed the start of his 2000 season.\u00a0 When he returned in mid-May, he wound up splitting the catching duties with Mark Johnson.\u00a0 He had raised his average to .272, though with only 21 RBIs, when, on July 29th, he, along with a triplet of minor league pitchers, was traded to the Orioles for catcher Charles Johnson and familiar White Sox target Harold Baines.<\/p>\n

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

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Name:\u00a0Brook Fordyce Rank: 126 Position:\u00a0C Years With White Sox:\u00a01999-2000 Brook Fordyce came to the White Sox via trade from the Reds towards the end of spring training in 1999.\u00a0 The defensively challenged catcher became the team’s starter, and put up the best offensive numbers of his career, finishing with a .297 average, 9 home runs […]<\/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":[5493,5494,47,3023,50,53,49],"class_list":["post-8934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-brook-fordyce","tag-charles-johnson","tag-harold-baines","tag-mark-johnson","tag-orioles","tag-reds","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8934","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=8934"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9234,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8934\/revisions\/9234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

Career Batting<\/b><\/caption>\n
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
0.118<\/span><\/td>\n17<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n2<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n4<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n5<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
0.290<\/span><\/td>\n458<\/span><\/td>\n54<\/span><\/td>\n133<\/span><\/td>\n70<\/span><\/td>\n27<\/span><\/td>\n71<\/span><\/td>\n32<\/span><\/td>\n2<\/span><\/td>\n14<\/span><\/td>\n2<\/span><\/td>\n6<\/span><\/td>\n8<\/span><\/td>\n145<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n