Sunday, February 12, 2017

World Series Sweep MVP - 2005 - Jermaine Dye

Thanks to the Baseball Hall of Fame for background on Jermaine Dye:
Paraphrasing: An Oakland, California native., Dye was taken in the 17th round of the 1993 MLB Draft by the Braves, and made his big league debut on May 17, 1996 – stepping onto a Braves team that won the World Series the year before.
Dye appeared in 98 games that year, hitting 12 home runs and finishing sixth in the National League Rookie of the Year voting. He appeared in 15 of the Braves postseason games that year as Atlanta defended its NL crown before falling to the Yankees in the World Series.
Dye was traded to the Royals just prior to the 1997 season starting a 13-year run in the AL. He hit 27 home runs and drove in 119 runs in 1999, then earned his first All-Star Game selection in 2000 en route to 33 home runs, 118 RBI and a Gold Glove Award in right field.
He was traded to Colorado and then immediately to Oakland on July 25, 2001. Dye remained with the A’s through 2004, signing with the White Sox prior to the 2005 season. In his first year in Chicago, Dye hit 31 home runs and drove in 86 runs – and led the Sox to their first World Series title in 88 years when he hit .438 in Chicago’s sweep of Houston, taking home the World Series Most Valuable Player Award.
The White Sox's Jermaine Dye wore this jersey in Game 4 of the 2005 World Series just before he was named the Fall Classic's MVP following Chicago's sweep of the Astros. - B-224-2005 (Milo Stewart, Jr./National Baseball Hall of Fame Library)

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