Forgotten Sox Players

[getonbckthr]

MLBN is playing the game Thome hit #500. Guys i've seen in the game so far Danny Richar and Jerry Owens lol. Plus someone was wearing a Canseco jersey in the crowd haha. Who was Andy Gonzalez?
lol

[Chez]

MLBN is playing the game Thome hit #500. Guys i've seen in the game so far Danny Richar and Jerry Owens lol. Plus someone was wearing a Canseco jersey in the crowd haha. Who was Andy Gonzalez?
lol

Andy Gonzalez was a terrible reserve infielder.

[getonbckthr]

Andy Gonzalez was a terrible reserve infielder.

Was he just a September call up? I have a pretty solid memory and I have zero recollection of this guy

[Chez]

Was he just a September call up? I have a pretty solid memory and I have zero recollection of this guy

My memory is he got called up mid-season due to a rash of injuries. And then wouldn't leave.

[TDog]

My memory is he got called up mid-season due to a rash of injuries. And then wouldn't leave.

Of course, 2007 is a very (and justifiably) forgettable season. I believe Gonzalez broke camp with the team and spent the entire season on the 25 man roster (although he may have been on the disabled list or banged up at one or two points). He made his major-league debut on April 25, pinch-running for Ron Mackowiak before taking over for him in right, and came in as a defensive replacement for Paul Konerko in the last game of the season after the Tigers grabbed an 11-3 lead. Andy Gonzalez doesn't show up in the transactions in 2007 until he was granted free agency in December. He went on to play a few games for the Indians and Marlins before finishing his career as a minor leaguer in the Sox system.

[A. Cavatica]

Andy Gonzalez was a terrible reserve infielder.

Infield version of Jacob May.

[Chez]

Of course, 2007 is a very (and justifiably) forgettable season. I believe Gonzalez broke camp with the team and spent the entire season on the 25 man roster (although he may have been on the disabled list or banged up at one or two points). He made his major-league debut on April 25, pinch-running for Ron Mackowiak before taking over for him in right, and came in as a defensive replacement for Paul Konerko in the last game of the season after the Tigers grabbed an 11-3 lead. Andy Gonzalez doesn't show up in the transactions in 2007 until he was granted free agency in December. He went on to play a few games for the Indians and Marlins before finishing his career as a minor leaguer in the Sox system.

The Sox had a bunch of significant injuries that season -- Crede, Ozuna & Pods to name a few. That opened the door for Gonzalez (and others like Luis Terrero). I remember having an irrational dislike for Gonzalez. My kids still tease me about it. In 2008, my sons sponsored his Baseball Referemce.com page in my name as a joke. Gonzalez and Bryan Ward.

[Frater Perdurabo]

Here are several that inexplicably come to mind:

Mike LaValliere
Shawn Abner
Lyle Mouton
Tim Hulett
Joe DeSa

[eriqjaffe]

Russ Morman

[LITTLE NELL]

Here are some from the 50s and 60s that the old timers might remember:

Fred Hatfield
Ron Jackson
Jim McAnany
Johnny Groth
Bobby Adams
Bob Boyd
Paul LaPalme
Les Moss
Dom Zanni
Cam Carreon
Danny Cater
Bill Voss
Gail Hopkins
Bob Christian
Ron Northey
Jim Brideweser

[Gammons Peter]

Two of my favorites as a kid in the late 70's - early 80's were Alan Bannister and Bobby Molinaro

[TDog]

Here are some from the 50s and 60s that the old timers might remember:

Fred Hatfield
Ron Jackson
Jim MaAnany
Johnny Groth
Bobby Adams
Bob Boyd
Paul LaPalme
Les Moss
Dom Zanni
Cam Carreon
Danny Cater
Bill Voss
Gail Hopkins
Bob Christian
Ron Northey
Jim Brideweser

Most of these guys are before my time, but the ones who weren't bring back vivid memories.

For example, Bill Voss suffered a terrible injury when he was hit in the face by a pitch in a game against the Orioles. Danny Cater after leaving the Sox finished second to Carl Yastrzemski in batting average, hittng .290 for the A's. It was a trivia question in my sixth-grade school newspaper a year later. Les Moss played mostly before I was born but was a White Sox coach who was manager for two games in 1968. Gail Hopkins dropped a foul pop-up for his second error of the inning in a game in May 1969, and the next day in school I heard complaints from one of the few White Sox fans left in Munster, questioning how he could drop that pop-up with a $60 glove, which seemed a big deal at the time. A few weeks later, as my father was driving me to Minneapolis where I would spend the summer, on the banks of the Dan Ryan we heard the daytime fireworks and saw the balls of smoke. As Bob Elson explained it, Bob Christian, in his first at bat since being called up, had hit a home run to pull the Sox within two of the Orioles before the Sox fell further and further behind.

The White Sox were always going on in the background when I was growing up.

[LITTLE NELL]

Two of my favorites as a kid in the late 70's - early 80's were Alan Bannister and Bobby Molinaro

I liked Molinaro also, nice quick lefty bat. Bannister had that nice season in the tons of fun 77 season except he was pretty bad with the glove.

[A. Cavatica]

I liked Molinaro also, nice quick lefty bat. Bannister had that nice season in the tons of fun 77 season except he was pretty bad with the glove.

I liked Molinaro too. I thought he was one of the better players on some really bad Sox teams. I just looked up his stats, and he put up a .730 OPS for the Sox, walked more than he struck out, and was an efficient base stealer.

He ended up with a career bWAR of only 0.7 — a product of being good for the Sox and bad everywhere else, and being a corner outfielder without much power.

[Chez]

While not all these have been forgotten, most are forgettable:

Eddie Leon
Bill Almon (the missing Almon brother)
Bill Long
Bill Sharp
Bobby Colluccio
Jay Loviglio
Ehren Wasserman
D.J. Carrasco