Clicking around Baseball-Reference.com like I often do when I'm bored, I paused on the White Sox's
single-season home run leaderboard. It struck me strangely to see Jermaine Dye's name up there, second only behind Albert Belle. He just hit his last homer a couple months ago, so it didn't feel historic.
Nevertheless, that's what it was, and I started to try to place
Dye's 2006 campaign in terms of the greatest seasons in Sox history.
Well, dominoes started to fall, and at the end of the day I had a list of about 45 great seasons in Sox history. After lopping off the least significant, I ended up with 40 outstanding campaigns. After shuffling and re-shuffling, I put them into a fairly decent order, and now I have a better idea where Dye stacks up.
Where exactly his near-MVP season falls, you can find out my estimate below: