{"id":8938,"date":"2015-11-28T06:44:22","date_gmt":"2015-11-28T12:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=8938"},"modified":"2015-11-27T17:14:46","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T23:14:46","slug":"124-darren-lewis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/124-darren-lewis\/","title":{"rendered":"#124 – Darren Lewis"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Name:<\/strong>\u00a0Darren Lewis<\/p>\n

Rank:<\/strong> 124<\/p>\n

Position:<\/strong>\u00a0OF<\/p>\n

Years With White Sox:<\/strong>\u00a01996-1997<\/p>\n

Following the 1995 season, Darren Lewis signed with the White Sox as a free agent.\u00a0 He became the team’s primary center fielder for 1996, but struggled.\u00a0 He finished the year with a career-worst .228 batting average.<\/p>\n

Lewis looked to bounce back in 1997, but it was not to be.\u00a0 Manager Terry Bevington named Dave Martinez the starter prior to the first spring training game, and the emergence of rookie Mike Cameron pushed him further back on the bench, used mostly late in games for defensive purposes.\u00a0 By August 26, he had started only 19 games all season, and his average had barely improved over the year before, to .234.\u00a0 The next day, Lewis was traded to the Dodgers for a player to be named later, who would turn out to be Chad Fonville.<\/p>\n

Lewis\u2019 numbers in a White Sox uniform, both for games I attended and overall, were:<\/p>\n

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Name:\u00a0Darren Lewis Rank: 124 Position:\u00a0OF Years With White Sox:\u00a01996-1997 Following the 1995 season, Darren Lewis signed with the White Sox as a free agent.\u00a0 He became the team’s primary center fielder for 1996, but struggled.\u00a0 He finished the year with a career-worst .228 batting average. Lewis looked to bounce back in 1997, but it was […]<\/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":[1746,1749,895,116,878,4199,49],"class_list":["post-8938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-chad-fonville","tag-darren-lewis","tag-dave-martinez","tag-dodgers","tag-mike-cameron","tag-terry-bevington","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8938","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=8938"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9246,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8938\/revisions\/9246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

Career Batting<\/b><\/caption>\n
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
0.167<\/span><\/td>\n6<\/span><\/td>\n2<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n2<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n6<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
0.229<\/span><\/td>\n414<\/span><\/td>\n70<\/span><\/td>\n95<\/span><\/td>\n58<\/span><\/td>\n56<\/span><\/td>\n54<\/span><\/td>\n13<\/span><\/td>\n2<\/span><\/td>\n4<\/span><\/td>\n32<\/span><\/td>\n11<\/span><\/td>\n3<\/span><\/td>\n222<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n