Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
September 29, 2005
Konerko's Klouts

Paul Konerko hit his 40th home run of the year today. He becomes only the second White Sox player to have multiple 40 home run seasons.

If you look at the history of home runs in the American League, the White Sox stand out by their lack of the long ball across the decades. Up until the 1990s, the White Sox were last among the original AL teams in home runs hit by a wide margin, about 600 homers. In the last decade and a half they've passed the Senators/Twins. That's thanks to players like Frank Thomas, Belle, Ordonez and Konerko. Every other charter member of the AL is over 10,000. It's not surprising that the most successful decade for the White Sox in since the 1910's came with the arrival of some power.

Correction: Multiple 40 home run seasons.


Posted by David Pinto at 03:05 PM | Sluggers | TrackBack (0)
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Only the second WS player to have multiple home run seasons?
Not sure I follow that, it sounds like virtually no WS player has ever hit home runs in 2+ seasons.

Posted by: rbj at September 29, 2005 03:35 PM

I think you mean multiple 40 HR seasons.

Although if they had only had one person before with a multiple home run season, it would explain a lot.

It would also take a lineup full of Scott Podsedniks.

I wonder how many teams have had a 40 HR regular player and a 0 HR regular player?

Posted by: Will at September 29, 2005 03:36 PM

It's consecutive 40 HR seasons. Frank Thomas has had five 40+ HR seasons but only '95 and '96 were consecutive.

Posted by: Scott Janssens at September 29, 2005 03:57 PM

Thanks David. Much clearer now.

Posted by: rbj at September 30, 2005 08:03 AM
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