{"id":6612,"date":"2014-09-12T17:41:13","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T23:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=6612"},"modified":"2014-09-12T17:31:57","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T23:31:57","slug":"209-bill-simas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/209-bill-simas\/","title":{"rendered":"#209 – Bill Simas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sox\"<\/a>Name:<\/strong>\u00a0Bill Simas<\/p>\n

Rank:<\/strong> 209<\/p>\n

Position:<\/strong>\u00a0P<\/p>\n

Years With White Sox:<\/strong>\u00a01995-2000<\/p>\n

Bill Simas joined the White Sox organization near the trading deadline in 1995 along with McKay Christensen,\u00a0Andrew Lorraine,\u00a0and\u00a0John Snyder in the deal that sent Jim Abbott and Tim Fortugno to the Angels.\u00a0 He made his major league debut on August 15, pitching a scoreless inning of relief against those same Angels.\u00a0 He finished the season with a 2.57 ERA in 14 appearances for a disappointing White Sox squad that finished\u00a08 games under .500.<\/p>\n

Simas became a mainstay of the White Sox bullpen starting in 1996, when he appeared in 64 games.\u00a0 His ERA, however, jumped up to a career high 4.58 in 72.2 inning pitched, also a career high.\u00a0 He improved in 1997, lowering his to 4.14 in 40 games before minor shoulder surgery ended his season early in August.<\/p>\n

Much to\u00a0his chagrin,\u00a0Simas started the 1998 season in Triple A to build up his arm strength.\u00a0 “If spring training had been another week to 10 days, he’d be with us,” general manager Ron Schueler said.\u00a0 “He’s just not quite ready yet.”\u00a0 Simas did not see things the same way.\u00a0 “They say my velocity’s not the same, but does that mean I can’t pitch?” Simas asked. \u00a0“I asked that question and they didn’t give me an answer. That’s the way it goes.”\u00a0 He was back in the big leagues by the end of April, finishing the year with a 3.57 ERA and 18 saves.<\/p>\n

1999 was another decent year for the bullpen workhorse.\u00a0 He appeared in a career high 70 games and put up a 6-3 record with 2 saves.\u00a0 As the White Sox ran away with the 2000 AL Central title, Simas again was a key part of the bullpen, appearing in 60 games and putting up a 3.46 ERA before being shut down for the final month of the season after suffering elbow pain.\u00a0 He returned for the ALDS against the Mariners, appearing in 2 of the 3 games.<\/p>\n

Following the 2000 season, he underwent Tommy John surgery and missed the entire 2001 season.\u00a0 After that season, he was granted free agency, but returned to the White Sox organization on a minor league deal in May of 2002.\u00a0 After the 2002 season, he again was granted free agency, but\u00a0he never appeared in the major leagues again.<\/p>\n

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

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Name:\u00a0Bill Simas Rank: 209 Position:\u00a0P Years With White Sox:\u00a01995-2000 Bill Simas joined the White Sox organization near the trading deadline in 1995 along with McKay Christensen,\u00a0Andrew Lorraine,\u00a0and\u00a0John Snyder in the deal that sent Jim Abbott and Tim Fortugno to the Angels.\u00a0 He made his major league debut on August 15, pitching a scoreless inning of […]<\/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":[2180,2424,110,2425,2422,1695,124,2423,1671,2421,2433,49],"class_list":["post-6612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-alds","tag-andrew-lorraine","tag-angels","tag-bill-simas","tag-jim-abbott","tag-john-snyder","tag-mariners","tag-mckay-christensen","tag-ron-schueler","tag-tim-fortugno","tag-tommy-john","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6612","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=6612"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6733,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6612\/revisions\/6733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

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
1<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n2.45<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n14.667<\/span><\/td>\n6<\/span><\/td>\n4<\/span><\/td>\n4<\/span><\/td>\n7<\/span><\/td>\n11<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n13<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18<\/span><\/td>\n19<\/span><\/td>\n3.83<\/span><\/td>\n23<\/span><\/td>\n338.333<\/span><\/td>\n332<\/span><\/td>\n159<\/span><\/td>\n144<\/span><\/td>\n149<\/span><\/td>\n265<\/span><\/td>\n39<\/span><\/td>\n14<\/span><\/td>\n308<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n