{"id":22440,"date":"2025-01-21T13:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T19:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=22440"},"modified":"2025-01-20T11:01:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T17:01:54","slug":"so-long-skipper-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/so-long-skipper-2\/","title":{"rendered":"So Long, Skipper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/torborg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22441\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/torborg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"669\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/torborg.jpg 669w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/torborg-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 669px) 100vw, 669px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Former White Sox manager Jeff Torborg, who was suffering from Parkinson&#8217;s disease, died at the age of 83.\u00a0 Torborg took over the White Sox following the 1988 season, replacing Jim Fregosi.\u00a0 It was a tough go for the rebuilding White Sox, who finished with a record of 69\u201392, giving them a last place finish in the AL West.<\/p>\n<p>Things got significantly better in 1990, when the young White Sox surprised the world, going 94-68 in their final season at Comiskey Park and finishing in second behind the A&#8217;s.\u00a0 The 25-game improvement earned Torborg the Manager of the Year award.\u00a0 As the White Sox opened the new Comiskey Park II across the street in 1991, they posted another second-place finish.\u00a0 Following the season, Torborg bolted to the Mets, getting a hefty pay raise.<\/p>\n<p>Torborg ended his tenure on the South Side at fifteen games over .500 and became a mentor to future manager Ozzie Guillen.\u00a0 His son Dale was a roving strength and conditioning coordinator for the White Sox from 2004-22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former White Sox manager Jeff Torborg, who was suffering from Parkinson&#8217;s disease, died at the age of 83.\u00a0 Torborg took over the White Sox following the 1988 season, replacing Jim Fregosi.\u00a0 It was a tough go for the rebuilding White Sox, who finished with a record of 69\u201392, giving them a last place finish in [&hellip;]<\/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":[597,631,11774,3663,3697,11773,261,893,49],"class_list":["post-22440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-comiskey-park","tag-comiskey-park-ii","tag-dale-torborg","tag-jeff-torborg","tag-jim-fregosi","tag-manager-of-the-year","tag-mets","tag-ozzie-guillen","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22440","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=22440"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22446,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22440\/revisions\/22446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}