Jermaine Dye ended 2005 as the World Series MVP, but the championship campaign was not his finest in a White Sox uniform.
It was still quite good, it just didn’t compare to the one that followed, a monster 2006 season that saw Dye finish fifth in the AL MVP vote.
Obviously, as with any middle-of-the-order hitter en route to a World Series championship, Dye’s 2005 season was full of memorable moments. One of his biggest came July 4 against the Devil Rays and showed that Dye was capable of the kind of eye-popping offensive performances that he routinely turned in a year later.