{"id":304,"date":"2007-10-29T00:28:12","date_gmt":"2007-10-29T05:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/?p=304"},"modified":"2008-11-15T22:30:58","modified_gmt":"2008-11-16T03:30:58","slug":"alumni-news-you-can-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/304\/alumni-news-you-can-use","title":{"rendered":"Alumni News You Can Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you were wondering:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Josh Fogg, 2001:<\/strong> The Dragon Slayer went 2-1 this postseason for the Rockies with a 5.91 ERA, fanning 6 in 10.2 innings. Fogg&#8217;s ERA for the World Series was 20.25, and Game 3 was his lone October loss.<br \/>\n<strong>Kenny Lofton, 2002:<\/strong> After almost single-handedly destroying the Yankees, the 40-year-old Lofton cooled in the ALCS, his batting line dropping from .375\/.444\/.438 to .222\/.250\/.407, lest we forget his crucial role in The Sinker.<br \/>\n<strong>Luis Vizcaino, 2005:<\/strong> In one appearance, &#8220;Viz&#8221; recorded two outs while surrendering one earned run, giving up two hits and walking two batters. Line for the ALDS: 0-1, 13.50 ERA, 0 K&#8217;s.<br \/>\n<strong>Chris Young, superprospect 2001-2005:<\/strong> His team might have tanked, but Young made a name for himself with two home runs off the Cubs, a .280 average and five RBIs, and a .474 OBP in the NLCS.<br \/>\n<strong>Bobby Howry, 1998-2002:<\/strong> Howry was lights-out, fanning six and yielding no runs in 3 innings.<br \/>\n<strong>Scott Eyre, 1997-2000:<\/strong> Recorded no outs and yielded one hit in one appearance for the Cubs.<br \/>\n<strong>Tadahito Iguchi, 2005-2007:<\/strong> 3 at-bats, 0 hits, 2 walks as a Philly pinch-hitter. Average for the NLDS: .000.<br \/>\n<strong>Aaron Rowand, 2001-2005:<\/strong> Rowand may have actually increased his odds of returning to the South Side; while he posted his best offensive regular season, he also went 1-for-12 against the Rockies &#8211; 4 whiffs, 1 home run, 1 RBI.<\/p>\n<p>Under normal circumstances, one might think a player putting up such poor postseason numbers would be unattractive to prospective employers. But then, this is the White Sox we&#8217;re talking about, and the likely scenario has this team several years away from even needing to contemplate what to do to win playoff games, let alone win regular-season games. Dog day home runs and offensive pyrotechnics may be the only numbers we have to cling to anymore, and Rowand suddenly looks like a more appealing candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Yankee fans like to deride certain superstars as not being True Yankees when they fail in the postseason; with these abysmal numbers, and by going from July hero to permanent October afterthought, Rowand may have just become a True White Sox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where are they now? Falling apart in the postseason, that&#8217;s where.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[55,205,255,253,41,133,256,254],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}