Among the positions the White Sox need to improve entering 2020, right field is one of four that Rick Hahn listed at season's end. Sox Machiners entertained a variety of options in their offseason plans: hopefully the front office casts as wide a net as we did; as Jim wrote about yesterday, the Sox have basically been the equivalent of the gritted teeth face emoji signing lower-tier free agents. Go big or go home, because business as usual hasn't been working.
As far as wins above replacement are concerned, Sox right fielders haven't traditionally covered themselves in glory, either. The late-90s and early-aughts saw perhaps the most successful run in the 9 spot on the diamond for the franchise: from 1996 to 2003, the position logged 3+ bWAR in 6 of those 8 seasons. For reference, the Sox had a 17-year gap between three-win players from 1945 to 1962 and another 17-year gap between 1965 and 1982.
For today's Sporcle, I'm asking you to name those 3+ bWAR players in franchise history. That's thirty total entries, how many can you get? Good luck!
Quiz Parameters
- To qualify, a player must have played at least 50% of his games in right field, and also logged 3+ bWAR.
- I've allotted 10 minutes for completion attempts.
- For hints, I've provided the season and bWAR logged.
Useless information to amaze, annoy, confuse, and/or confound your friends and family:
- The average triple-slash of the players on this list: .301/.372/.453
- The most home runs logged came in 2006, with 44, while the fewest was 0, which occurred twice, in 1907 and 1902.
- Every player on this list logged at least 1 triple during their individual season(s).
All data from baseballreference.com
