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Stats
  • Seasons with Sox: 8
  • Lifetime Sox average: .307
  • Best average: .320 (2002)
  • Lifetime Sox homers: 187
  • Most homers: 38 (2002)
  • Seasons above .300: 5
  • Over 30 homers 4 times
  • Circumstances
  • Baby-faced superstar enters 2004 season as #1 favorite of White Sox fans!
  • Early in season, fans start to hear that Magglio wants more dough!
  • He wants as much or more as AL newcomer Vladimir Guerrero of the Angels!
  • This ain't the kind of stuff fans want to hear!
  • Injures left knee on May 19, and is expected to be out of the lineup for just a short time!
  • It turns out that he needs surgery! It turns out that he has bone marrow edema!
  • This is serious stuff! Maybe he'll never play again! Nobody knows what to think!
  • After his injury Magglio changes agents twice!
  • Is secretive about his physical progress!
  • Won't let Sox doctors see him!
  • His new agent makes demands, tells Sox...
  • They can sign him but they're not allowed to...
  • ... give him a physical examination before making an offer!
  • Magglio winds up losing the good will he accumulated with Sox fans and signs with the Detroit Tigers
    Note-- In 2007 Magglio bats .363 to win the American League Batting Title
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