{"id":583600,"date":"2026-04-03T21:13:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T21:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/583600\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T21:13:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T21:13:13","slug":"white-sox-retiring-ex-player-manager-ozzie-guillens-no-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/583600\/","title":{"rendered":"White Sox retiring ex-player, manager Ozzie Guill\u00e9n’s No. 13"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jesse RogersApr 4, 2026, 07:31 AM<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>Jesse joined ESPN Chicago in September 2009 and covers MLB for ESPN.com.<\/p>\n

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CHICAGO — Former White Sox<\/a> shortstop and manager Ozzie Guill\u00e9n was brought to tears when the team announced Friday that his No. 13 would be retired in a ceremony later this summer.<\/p>\n

Guill\u00e9n, 62, is still a popular figure within the White Sox community after managing the team to a World Series title in 2005. He spent eight years in the dugout after 13 as a player for them from 1985 to 1997.<\/p>\n

“I was very surprised,” Guill\u00e9n said. “Very, very surprised. They made me cry for them.”<\/p>\n

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Guill\u00e9n will be the 13th member of the organization to have his number retired, a tally that includes two players — Mark Buehrle and Paul Konerko — from his 2005 World Series team. He’ll also be the first manager in franchise history to have his number retired.<\/p>\n

“Ozzie is truly one of a kind, and his passion for baseball and the White Sox is unmatched,” owner Jerry Reinsdorf said in a statement. “Ozzie’s knowledge of the game, combined with his energy and ability to motivate his teams, helped deliver a World Series Championship to White Sox fans and the city of Chicago after an 88-year drought.”<\/p>\n

Guill\u00e9n admits he wore an unpopular number — 13 — because that’s what his hero, Davey Concepci\u00f3n, wore. He’s mostly happy that his kids and grandkids will be with him for the Aug. 8 ceremony, along with Reinsdorf, who turned 90 in February.<\/p>\n

“The White Sox organization care [about] what I did for them,” Guill\u00e9n said. “Obviously the fans, the media. But to me, the most important is what the White Sox think about what I did for the organization, all my work.”<\/p>\n

Guill\u00e9n won the 1985 AL Rookie of the Year Award and was a three-time All-Star as well as being a Gold Glove winner in 1990. Currently, he’s a pregame and postgame host for White Sox games on television.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jesse RogersApr 4, 2026, 07:31 AM CloseJesse joined ESPN Chicago in September 2009 and covers MLB for ESPN.com.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-583600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}