Chicago White Sox

Chicago White Sox

2005 ATL Season Review

by "Blanco" Soccus
Sports Reporter
Chicago Baseball

A look at the first season for the Chicago Whitesox . . .

By looking at the record of the Whitesox, one would think that a 79-75 record would make for a 3rd or 4th place middle of the pack finish,but in the Union league Continental division,the Palehose were in the running until the last few days of the season. The fabulous finish by the Washington Nationals (10-0) finished off the strong hearted Whitesox (3-7) and made for a wild finish and kept the fans on the edge of their seats. GM John Dean has a lot of questions to answer for 2006, as he made some deals down the stretch that may have cost the Whitesox a play-off spot. Looking back at the deal, the Sox moved 5 pitchers and 2 hitters and recieved in return 3 hitters and 4 pitchers. The pitchers sent packing had a 33-30 record and a 4+ ERA, and the 2 hitters had batting averages of .257 (Paul Waner) and .213 (Wally Berger). The new hitters put up pretty good numbers but failed in the main area of lead-off/on-base guy . . . Roberto Clemente was brought in to hit 3rd in the order, and he did put up respectable numbers (.300 avg/.455 slug). Tony Perez platooned at 3B and also did well (.309 avg/.539 slug) but the disapointment was in Claudio Vargas, as he posted a meek .316 OB% and a .393 slug%. Very sad for a lead-off man scoring only 22 runs in 48 games.

On the new pitching side,we got solid relief help in Dizzy Dismukes (2.73 ERA,33 IP) and Jose Mesa (0.82 era/11 IP). Starting pitching was OK as Camilio Pascual picked up where Seaver (10-9) left off going 3-4 but with a sparkling 2.49 ERA in 9 starts. El Tiant was the biggest bust of the  whole deal,he was being counted on to replace Blyleven (9-10,3.87 ERA and a no-hitter) and failed miserably by going 4-6,5.72 era in 11 starts.

OK, now for a look at the rest of the team that did not get traded. I have to start with MVP candidate 3b Richie Allen, he was cruising along and crushing pitchers until an injury cost him the last month of the season, his impressive numbers (.293 avg/38 hrs/100 RBI) in only 127 games, he garned a lot of votes for MVP, if he only would have played that final month??? Middle infield was manned by 2B Nellie Fox (.246 avg/.304 OB/.318 slug) and Dick Lundy (.259/.312/.364), not much to write home about.1B was also a very large dissapointment,as Hank Greenberg was being counted on to protect Allen in the line-up, and he did hit for power with 30 homers,but batted just .226 with an OB% of .304 and drove in only 89 runs. Roy Campanella had a tough time hitting behind the plate(.183),he did hit 19 homers and throw out 50% of would be stealers, but hitting below the Mendoza line is not what was expected.Billy Williams and Kiki Cuyler did an admirable job of platooning in LF, they hit a combined .280 with 24 homers and 70 RBI . . . Pitching,the only 2 guys to really talk about here were Phil Niekro and Goose Gossage.Knucksie led the ballclub in starts with 36(21 quality) and IP 233,had a very respectable 14-11 record and a 3.24 ERA.Goose was very solid in his closer role pitching in 59 games,saving 32 (5 blown) and sporting a 2.53 ERA.As the new season approaches, I see a lot of changes being made to the ball-club, pitching needs to be ironed  out and also some OB% type guys to kick start a lowly offense. 2006 will be an interesting year for the Chicago Whitesox.


Awards Won by White Sox Players

Dick Allen
All-Star, Silver Slugger

Dick Lundy
All-Star

Goose Gossage
All-Star

Bert Blyleven
April Pitcher of the Month

Roy Campanella
Gold Glove

Union League



                             Team Batting -- 2005 Chicago White Sox                             


S Name               P    AVG   OBP   SPC    G   AB    H  2B  3B  HR    R  RBI   BB    K HBP  IW  SB  CS 
  Perez,T            1b  .309  .376  .539   44  152   47   5   0  10   22   22   17   44   0   0   2   1 
  Fain*              1b  .300  .447  .400   23   30    9   3   0   0    3    0    7   10   1   0   0   2 
  Clemente           rf  .300  .340  .455   49  200   60   8   4   5   23   26   12   39   1   0   5   1 
  Allen,D            1b  .293  .364  .580  127  498  146  15   7  38   83  100   55  132   3   1   2   0 
  Cuyler             rf  .287  .344  .409   59  115   33   3   1   3   13   11    9   29   1   0   7   5 
  Williams,Bi*       lf  .272  .328  .501  112  393  107  19   4  21   53   58   33   46   1   2   2   0 
  Vargas             cf  .267  .316  .393   48  191   51  11   2   3   22    9   13   44   1   0  16   7 
  Lundy#             ss  .259  .312  .364  152  638  165  25   6  10   86   50   50   54   1   3  23  14 
n Waner,P*           rf  .257  .320  .387   97  393  101  20   5   7   54   31   33   39   4   1   2   2 
  Gleason#           2b  .250  .500 1.000    4    4    1   0   0   1    1    1    2    0   0   0   0   0 
  Salazar*           of  .250  .250  .750    8    4    1   0   1   0    0    2    0    0   0   0   0   0 
  Donlin*            cf  .246  .289  .500   89  142   35   4   4   8   19   23    9   21   0   1   2   3 
  Fox*               2b  .246  .304  .318  125  390   96  15   2   3   38   37   33   20   2   9   3   1 
  Overall#           sp  .241  .290  .379   46   29    7   1   0   1    2    2    2    5   0   0   0   0 
  Schalk             c   .231  .292  .246   29   65   15   1   0   0    5    3    6   12   0   0   3   0 
  Marcano            2b  .229  .246  .390   48  118   27   5   1   4    9   15    2   14   1   0   0   0 
  Greenberg          1b  .226  .304  .449  154  579  131  19  10  30   83   89   64  139   2   0   3   4 
n Berger             cf  .213  .290  .392  102  357   76  12   2  16   45   46   39   86   1   0   1   4 
  Kell               3b  .208  .235  .271   35   48   10   3   0   0    5    4    2    6   0   0   0   0 
  Day                2b  .206  .316  .235   57   68   14   2   0   0   10    1   11   19   0   0   3   1 
n Faber#             sp  .200  .200  .200   26    5    1   0   0   0    0    1    0    3   0   0   0   0 
n Seaver             sp  .184  .212  .204   26   49    9   1   0   0    3    6    2   18   0   0   0   0 
  Campanella         c   .183  .263  .334  132  464   85   9   2  19   47   61   49   68   2   0   0   0 
  Aparicio           ss  .182  .182  .182    8   11    2   0   0   0    1    0    0    0   0   0   0   0 
  Lopez,A            c   .176  .176  .176    6   17    3   0   0   0    1    0    0    3   0   0   0   0 
  Tiant              sp  .167  .211  .389   11   18    3   1   0   1    2    4    1    5   0   0   0   0 
  Hebner*            3b  .167  .286  .167   13   12    2   0   0   0    1    0    2    2   0   0   1   0 
  Pascual            sp  .143  .143  .286    9   21    3   0   0   1    1    1    0    6   0   0   0   0 
  Dismukes           sp  .125  .125  .250   17    8    1   1   0   0    0    0    0    5   0   0   0   0 
  Niekro             sp  .089  .100  .089   36   79    7   0   0   0    1    2    0   18   1   0   0   0 
  Jones,Sl*          sp  .083  .120  .083   38   24    2   0   0   0    0    0    1   12   0   0   0   0 
n Blyleven           sp  .060  .060  .080   25   50    3   1   0   0    2    3    0   16   0   0   0   0 
n Vance              sp  .024  .024  .024   22   41    1   0   0   0    0    0    0   17   0   0   0   0 
  Gossage            cl  .000  .000  .000   59   14    0   0   0   0    0    1    0    3   0   0   0   0 
n Hiller             mr  .000  .000  .000   31    0    0   0   0   0    0    0    0    0   0   0   0   0 
  Marshall           cl  .000  .000  .000   54    2    0   0   0   0    0    0    0    0   0   0   0   0 
  McGregor#          sp  .000  .000  .000    1    1    0   0   0   0    0    0    0    0   0   0   0   0 
  Mesa               cl  .000  .000  .000   12    0    0   0   0   0    0    0    0    0   0   0   0   0 
  Pena,A             mr  .000  .000  .000    7    3    0   0   0   0    0    0    0    2   0   0   0   0 
  Peters*            sp  .000  .000  .000   19    1    0   0   0   0    0    0    0    0   0   0   0   0 
  Weaver#            ss  .000  .000  .000    6    7    0   0   0   0    0    0    0    0   0   0   0   0 
  White,Do*          sp  .000  .000  .000    4    0    0   0   0   0    0    0    0    0   0   0   0   0 
  Total                  .239  .301  .397  154 5241 1254 184  51 181  635  609  454  937  22  17  75  45 


                            Team Pitching -- 2005 Chicago White Sox                             


S Name               P     ERA   W   L   S   G  GS  CG SHO     INN    H    R   ER   BB    K  HR GDP    BF 
  McGregor*          sp   0.00   1   0   0   1   0   0   0     4.0    2    0    0    2    3   0   0    16 
  Mesa               cl   0.82   3   0   0  12   0   0   0    11.0    9    1    1    4    7   0   0    45 
  Salazar*           of   2.25   0   1   0   6   0   0   0    12.0    6    3    3   13   10   0   0    55 
  Pascual            sp   2.49   3   4   0   9   9   2   2    65.0   52   22   18   21   34   3   3   266 
  Gossage            cl   2.53   2   4  32  59   0   0   0    85.1   67   25   24   38   67   7   1   355 
  Dismukes           sp   2.73   1   0   0  17   0   0   0    33.0   31   16   10   11   17   2   3   139 
  Niekro             sp   3.24  14  11   0  36  36   5   0   233.1  215   93   84  105  119  10  10  1007 
n Faber              sp   3.66   3   1   0  26   0   0   0    46.2   45   23   19   15   21   6   3   207 
  Overall            sp   3.71   5   6   0  46  11   0   0   121.1   96   58   50   57   90  14   7   509 
  White,Do*          sp   3.86   0   0   0   4   0   0   0     7.0    3    3    3    0    4   2   0    24 
n Vance              sp   3.86   7   6   0  22  21   4   1   128.1  115   59   55   41  105  14   5   534 
n Blyleven           sp   3.87   9  10   0  25  25   6   3   153.2  131   78   66   45  105  19   7   642 
  Jones,Sl*          sp   3.91   4   3   0  38   9   0   0    96.2   98   52   42   44   79  12   9   426 
  Pena,A             mr   3.94   0   0   0   7   0   0   0    16.0   17    7    7    7    4   4   1    72 
  Day                2b   4.09   4   2   0   9   6   1   0    44.0   42   21   20   19   28   3   6   186 
n Seaver             sp   4.30  10   9   0  26  26   4   2   165.1  152   82   79   66  126  19   7   703 
  Marshall           cl   5.46   5   7   4  54   0   0   0    59.1   72   38   36   36   28   9   0   281 
  Tiant              sp   5.72   4   6   0  11  11   1   0    56.2   67   40   36   17   31  12   3   250 
  Peters*            sp   5.96   0   1   1  19   0   0   0    22.2   25   16   15    9   12   3   1   101 
n Hiller*            mr   8.13   4   4   0  31   0   0   0    27.2   31   28   25   16   23   4   3   126 
  Total                   3.84  79  75  37 154 154  23  10  1389.0 1276  665  593  566  913 143  69  5944


n=non-roster at end of year

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