Times change, don’t they?
The White Sox faced off against former mate Bartolo Colon and his Los Angeles Angels on May 24, 2005, and he turned in the kind of performance that propelled him to that year’s AL Cy Young Award. He allowed just one run on three hits, silencing the White Sox bats long enough that they needed an 11th-inning RBI double from Tadahito Iguchi to win the game by a narrow 2-1 score.
But back to Colon, who pitched for the South Siders in 2003 and again in 2009. He was voted the Junior Circuit’s top pitcher when the 2005 regular season came to a close, but here’s a question: Would he still win that vote if it was held today?