{"id":18877,"date":"2022-05-15T01:32:34","date_gmt":"2022-05-15T07:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=18877"},"modified":"2022-03-27T11:43:38","modified_gmt":"2022-03-27T17:43:38","slug":"by-the-numbers-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/by-the-numbers-10\/","title":{"rendered":"By The Numbers \u2013 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In 1929, uniform numbers appeared on the back of baseball jerseys for the first time, thanks to the Indians and the Yankees.\u00a0 By 1937, numbers finally appeared across all uniforms, both home and away, across both major leagues.\u00a0 Since that time, 81 distinct numbers have been worn by members of the White Sox, while the Cubs boast 76.<\/p>\n

Today, we continue our look at those players, picking our favorite, if not the best, player to wear each uniform number for both Chicago teams with #10.\u00a0 65 different players have donned #16 while playing in Chicago, 26 for the White Sox and 22 for the Cubs, who retired the number in 2003.<\/p>\n

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Alexei Ramirez signed with the White Sox on December 21, 2007 after defecting from Cuba. \u00a0He made his major league debut the following March 31, wearing #10 while going 0-4 against the Indians while playing center field. \u00a0When Juan Uribe went down with an injury in May, Ramirez settled in at second base. \u00a0On September 19, Ramirez hit his 3rd grand slam of the year, tying the major league rookie record. \u00a010 days later, he grabbed the record for himself, hitting his 4th slam against Gary Glover to push the White Sox to an 8-2 victory and the tiebreaking game 163. \u00a0He finished the regular season with .290 average and a career high 21 home runs.\u00a0 During the ALDS, he hit .250 in the 4 game series against the Rays, with 2 RBI. \u00a0Once the season came to an end, Ramirez placed second in Rookie of the Year voting, behind Evan Longoria.<\/p>\n

With Orlando Cabrera gone, Ramirez shifted over to shortstop for the 2009 season. \u00a0On July 23, he fielded the final out in Mark Buehrle\u2019s perfect game. \u00a0He ended the year with a .277 average, 15 home runs, and 68 RBI.\u00a0 2010 saw Ramirez earn his first Silver Slugger award, thanks to 18 home runs, 70 RBI, and a .282 average. \u00a0In 2011, his average dropped somewhat, but he remained consistent, hitting .269 with 15 home runs and 70 RBI.\u00a0 Ramirez saw his power numbers slip in 2012, dropping to 9 home runs, but the rest of his game remained consistent with a .265 average and 73 RBIs, though he did set a new career high with 20 stolen bases. \u00a0His power fell off even further in 2013, finishing with only 6 home runs and 48 RBI, but he logged his highest average, .284, since his rookie year. \u00a0He also set a new career high with 30 stolen bases.<\/p>\n

2014 may have been the finest season of his career. \u00a0On May 5, he notched his 1000th career hit, off Justin Grimm and the Cubs. \u00a0In July, he earned his first All Star selection and, after the season, his second Silver Slugger award. \u00a0He finished with a .273 average, 15 home runs, and 74 RBIs.\u00a0 Ramirez struggled for much of the first half in 2015. \u00a0He rebounded in the second half, but still finished the year with the lowest batting average, .249, and OPS, .642, of his career. \u00a0Following the season,\u00a0the White Sox declined his option for 2016, making him a free agent.<\/p>\n

Ron Santo spent 14 of his 15 big league seasons with the Cubs, switching to #10 during his rookie season of 1960.\u00a0 He earned 9 All Star game appearances and 5 Gold Gloves and followed his playing career with a long broadcasting stint with the team.\u00a0 \u00a0The Cubs retired number 10 in his honor in 2003 and he was posthumously elected to the Hall of Fame in 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 1929, uniform numbers appeared on the back of baseball jerseys for the first time, thanks to the Indians and the Yankees.\u00a0 By 1937, numbers finally appeared across all uniforms, both home and away, across both major leagues.\u00a0 Since that time, 81 distinct numbers have been worn by members of the White Sox, while the […]<\/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":[2180,268,120,2384,4085,5693,44,115,276,5097,86,904,1551,6580,5984,49,51],"class_list":["post-18877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-alds","tag-alexei-ramirez","tag-cubs","tag-evan-longoria","tag-gary-glover","tag-gold-glove","tag-hof","tag-indians","tag-juan-uribe","tag-justin-grimm","tag-mark-buehrle","tag-orlando-cabrera","tag-ron-santo","tag-rookie-of-the-year-award","tag-silver-slugger","tag-white-sox","tag-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18877","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=18877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18878,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18877\/revisions\/18878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}