{"id":1621,"date":"2012-04-28T07:43:29","date_gmt":"2012-04-28T13:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=1621"},"modified":"2012-04-08T19:23:31","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T01:23:31","slug":"386-sammy-sosa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/386-sammy-sosa\/","title":{"rendered":"#386 – Sammy Sosa"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Name:<\/strong>\u00a0Sammy Sosa<\/p>\n

Rank:<\/strong>\u00a0386<\/p>\n

Position:<\/strong>\u00a0RF<\/p>\n

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

Before he and Mark McGwire helped heal the remaining wounds from the ’94 strike by smashing Roger Maris’ home run record, before becoming, again with McGwire, the poster boy for performance enhancing drugs and watching his Hall of Fame chances go up in smoke, Sammy Sosa spent 2 1\/2 seasons frustrating the Chicago White Sox.<\/p>\n

Acquired with Wilson Alvarez and Scott Fletcher at the trade deadline in 1989 in the deal that sent Harold Baines to Texas, Sosa started off strong, hitting .273 with 3 HR to close out the ’89 season. \u00a0In 1990, his first full season in the major leagues, his average slipped to .233 and he finished 4th in the AL with 150 strikeouts.<\/p>\n

Following the 1990 season, GM Larry Himes, who engineered the trade with Texas, was fired, leaving Sosa without a guardian in the organization. \u00a0Unfortunately for Sosa, his 1991 season was even worse, with his average dropping again to .203 and being sent back to Triple A Vancouver for additional seasoning. \u00a0In his “autobiography”, aptly titled Sosa: An Autobiography<\/em>, Sosa blames hitting coach Walt Hriniak for most of his problems with the White Sox and takes no responsibility for his lack of production.<\/p>\n

Following the ’91 season, Himes was hired as the Cubs new GM, and near the end of the following spring training in 1992, Sosa was sent to the Northside along with Ken Patterson for a fading George Bell, where his career skyrocketed and then plummeted back down to Earth. But that is a story for a different time.<\/p>\n

Sosa\u2019s numbers in a White Sox uniform, both\u00a0for games I attended and overall, were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/tfoot>\n<\/table>\n

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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
0.188<\/span><\/td>\n16<\/span><\/td>\n2<\/span><\/td>\n3<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n6<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n4<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
0.227<\/span><\/td>\n947<\/span><\/td>\n130<\/span><\/td>\n215<\/span><\/td>\n113<\/span><\/td>\n58<\/span><\/td>\n275<\/span><\/td>\n41<\/span><\/td>\n11<\/span><\/td>\n28<\/span><\/td>\n52<\/span><\/td>\n18<\/span><\/td>\n21<\/span><\/td>\n302<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n