{"id":12414,"date":"2017-06-03T09:21:46","date_gmt":"2017-06-03T15:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=12414"},"modified":"2017-06-02T20:15:17","modified_gmt":"2017-06-03T02:15:17","slug":"25-wilson-alvarez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/25-wilson-alvarez\/","title":{"rendered":"#25 – Wilson Alvarez"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Name:<\/strong>\u00a0Wilson Alvarez<\/p>\n

Rank:<\/strong>\u00a025<\/p>\n

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

Years With White Sox:<\/strong>\u00a01991-1997<\/p>\n

Five days after making his major league debut for the Rangers, Wilson Alvarez was acquired by the White Sox, along with Scott Fletcher and Sammy Sosa, for Harold Baines and Fred Manrique on July 29, 1989.\u00a0 After spending the next 2 calendar years in the minor leagues, Alvarez returned to the big leagues and made his White Sox debut on August 11, 1991, throwing an unlikely no hitter against the Orioles at Memorial Stadium.\u00a0 With nowhere to go but down from there, he made\u00a08 additional\u00a0starts for the White Sox down the stretch, finishing the year with a 3-2 record and a respectable 3.51 ERA.<\/p>\n

After\u00a0tossing nearly 300 innings the previous year between winter league, Triple A, and the big leagues, 1992 saw Alvarez work mostly out of the bullpen, getting only 9 starts out of his 34 appearances.\u00a0 He posted a career high 1.674 WHIP, giving up 65 walks in just over 100 innings.\u00a0 This led to an unfortunate 5.20 ERA, despite a 5-3 record.<\/p>\n

In 1993, Alvarez managed to break in to the rotation full time.\u00a0 Despite leading the league with 122 walks, he finished second in the AL with an ERA of 2.95 and ended up with a 15-8 record as the White Sox won the AL West title for the first time in a decade.\u00a0 He was the winning pitcher in Game 3 of the ALCS, holding the Blue Jays to a single run while throwing a complete game.<\/p>\n

Alvarez improved in 1994, earning his first (and only) All Star nod and cutting his walk total nearly in half.\u00a0 Part of that, of course, was due to the player strike that ended the season in August, and he finished the year with a 12-8 record and a 3.45 ERA.\u00a0 When baseball returned in 1995, Alvarez struggled to regain his groove, finishing with a losing record for the first time and an ERA of 4.32.<\/p>\n

1996 saw a nice bounce back for Alvarez.\u00a0 While his ERA was still an elevated 4.22, he tied his career high with 15 wins and set career highs for innings pitched and strikeouts.\u00a0 He continued to impress in 1997, putting up a 9-8 record with a 3.03 ERA by the end of July, when, with the White Sox a mere 3 games back in the standings,\u00a0he, along with Danny Darwin and Roberto Hernandez, was sent to the Giants for Brian Manning, Lorenzo Barcel\u00f3, Mike Caruso, Keith Foulke, Bob Howry, and Ken Vining in what would become known as the White Flag Trade.<\/p>\n

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

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Name:\u00a0Wilson Alvarez Rank:\u00a025 Position: P Years With White Sox:\u00a01991-1997 Five days after making his major league debut for the Rangers, Wilson Alvarez was acquired by the White Sox, along with Scott Fletcher and Sammy Sosa, for Harold Baines and Fred Manrique on July 29, 1989.\u00a0 After spending the next 2 calendar years in the minor […]<\/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":[77,2790,119,1509,4887,2596,2680,256,47,2600,2594,2598,7447,2599,50,111,2597,397,1721,2595,49,1494],"class_list":["post-12414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-1994-strike","tag-alcs","tag-blue-jays","tag-bob-howry","tag-brian-manning","tag-danny-darwin","tag-fred-manrique","tag-giants","tag-harold-baines","tag-keith-foulke","tag-ken-vining","tag-lorenzo-barcelo","tag-memorial-stadium","tag-mike-caruso","tag-orioles","tag-rangers","tag-roberto-hernandez","tag-sammy-sosa","tag-scott-fletcher","tag-white-flag-trade","tag-white-sox","tag-wilson-alvarez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12414"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12424,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12414\/revisions\/12424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

Career Pitching<\/b><\/caption>\n
Wins<\/span><\/th>\nLosses<\/span><\/th>\nERA<\/span><\/th>\nSaves<\/span><\/th>\nIP<\/span><\/th>\nHits<\/span><\/th>\nRuns<\/span><\/th>\nER<\/span><\/th>\nWalks<\/span><\/th>\nStrike Outs<\/span><\/th>\nHR<\/span><\/th>\nHBP<\/span><\/th>\nAppearances<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
2<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n0.39<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n23<\/span><\/td>\n9<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n8<\/span><\/td>\n12<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n3<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
67<\/span><\/td>\n50<\/span><\/td>\n3.76<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n1064<\/span><\/td>\n978<\/span><\/td>\n503<\/span><\/td>\n445<\/span><\/td>\n523<\/span><\/td>\n770<\/span><\/td>\n102<\/span><\/td>\n20<\/span><\/td>\n185<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n