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The White Sox purchased outfielder Matty McIntyre from the Tigers, in what turned out to be a brilliant buy. The 31-year-old was brilliant in right field for the White Sox that summer, slashing .323\/.397\/.401, with 102 runs, 11 triples, 17 steals and 4.2 WAR.<\/p>\n
McIntyre slumped enough in 1912 for the White Sox to sell him to San Francisco of the Pacific Coast League, and he remained active in the minors through 1917. Sadly, McIntyre was a victim of the flu pandemic and passed away in 1920.<\/p>\n
1982 Advertisement<\/p>\n Cangelosi signed on May 11 and literally hit the ground running, swiping 45-of-52 bases at Low-A Niagra Falls.<\/p>\n Three years later, Cangelosi made his major league debut in Chicago, and in 1986 he leapfrogged the more highly-touted Daryl Boston to make the Opening Day roster as Chicago\u2019s center fielder and leadoff hitter. He swiped 39 bases by the All-Star break, but then was benched rather curiously by midseason manager replacement Jim Fregosi.<\/p>\n His best hitting game with the Sox came early in 1986, when he banged out four hits in a 4-3 loss to Milwaukee at Comiskey Park on April 9.<\/p>\n Traded to Pittsburgh after the 1986 season, Cangelosi would play 11 more years in the big leagues, winning a World Series<\/a> with the 1997 Florida Marlins. He amassed 6.1 career WAR.<\/p>\n 1994 2000 Advertisement<\/p>\n Navarro lost a majors-high 43 games during his three years on the South Side, compiled -3.7 WAR and is a whisper ahead of James Shields as the worst regular-use starting pitcher in team history.<\/p>\n On the other hand, both Valent\u00edn and Eldred would play a large part in the unexpected division championship for the South Siders in 2000.\u00a0Eldred\u00a0went 10-2 in 20 starts for the team before an elbow injury in July basically ended his White Sox career.\u00a0Valent\u00edn\u00a0played five years with the White Sox, averaging 120 hits, 27 home runs and 76 RBIs \u2014 and he was a Cubs<\/a>-killer.<\/p>\n One of the highlights in\u00a0Jose\u2019s\u00a0White Sox stint was a very rare accomplishment \u2014\u00a0a \u201cnatural\u201d cycle, against the Orioles on April 27, 2000. He singled in the first inning, doubled in the second, tripled in the third and homered in the eighth inning in a 13-4 win \u2014 all-in-all, 4-for-5 with five RBIs and two runs.<\/p>\n 2007 Advertisement<\/p>\n This was the second deal the White Sox made with Texas over a three-week period, along with the John Danks\u2013Brandon McCarthy trade of Dec. 23, 2006.<\/p>\n
In the January phase of the amateur draft that no longer exists today, the White Sox<\/a> unearthed the unlikeliest of success stories. Miami Dade College\u2019s John Cangelosi was selected with the No. 433 overall pick (including the 1981 summer draft), befitting a 5\u00b48\u00b4\u00b4 fireplug of a player.<\/p>\n
Steve Carlton, who pitched a little bit with the White Sox in 1986 (4-3, 3.69 ERA, 0.7 WAR as a GM Ken Harrelson waiver-wire pickup in the second half), was elected to the Hall of Fame with near-96% first-ballot support. Brief White Sox coach Orlando Cepeda (who Bill Veeck brought back to baseball after a prison sentence, and who tried to acquire Cepeda during his first run of White Sox ownership) fell seven votes short of the 75% election threshold.<\/p>\n
GM\u00a0Ron Schueler\u00a0made amends for some of his worst moves by shipping disgruntled pitcher Jamie Navarro\u00a0along with pitcher John Snyder to the Milwaukee Brewers<\/a> for long ball-hitting shortstop\u00a0Jos\u00e9 Valent\u00edn\u00a0and pitcher\u00a0Cal Eldred.<\/p>\n
After five years in the White Sox system culminating in \u2026 eight plate appearances for the 2006 club, catcher Chris Stewart was shipped to the Rangers for reliever John Lujan. Lujan would pitch for three years in the White Sox system, getting only as far as Double-A Birmingham in 2009 \u2014 he would pitch for two more years in organized ball and then until 2016 in independent and Latin American leagues, but never saw The Show. Stewart had a marginal (1.3 WAR) career, but bounced around 11 teams after the White Sox and played until 2018 \u2014 457 games in all.<\/p>\n