Photos: White Sox\u2019s home opener at Rate Field<\/a><\/p>\nThe Sox made two postseason appearances (2005, 2008). They went 11-1 during the 2005 postseason on the way to winning the franchise\u2019s first World Series championship since 1917. He became the first Latino manager in Major League Baseball to win a World Series and was named the 2005 American League Manager of the Year.<\/p>\n
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One of his players from the 2005 team, outfielder Scott Podsednik, shocked Guill\u00e9n with the announcement.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne reason why they honored me with this number retirement, PK (former first baseman Paul Konerko) had a lot to do with this,\u201d Guill\u00e9n said. \u201cAll the 2005 team, all the players I managed for so many years here. Obviously that\u2019s the big part of that.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe numbers, you can put up numbers yourself but when you\u2019re with a group of people and try to make the best for the organization \u2014 it\u2019s unique, man. So many people, so many great players never had their number retired for whatever reason. Being there with those big boys is amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Guill\u00e9n was optimistic the honor would happen one day.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIn the back of my mind I said, \u2018I know it will happen,’\u201d Guill\u00e9n said. \u201cBut I wanted it to happen quick because there are so many guys I\u2019d like to be there. I looked up there a couple of times, (Luis) Aparicio next to Konerko and I\u2019m like, \u2018One day, I hope I\u2019ll be there.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cI know besides my family, people in Venezuela will be proud. \u2026 What a great surprise it was.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m happy. I always try to represent the White Sox the best I can all my life. And \u2026 I will appreciate that for the rest of my life and obviously my family also.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ozzie Guill\u00e9n called it \u201cone of the biggest surprises\u201d he\u2019s ever had in baseball. The former Chicago White…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2379],"tags":[5,138,49,2561,51,4,5029,9987,70,396,2562,1039],"class_list":{"0":"post-662107","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-white-sox","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-white-sox","11":"tag-chicagowhitesox","12":"tag-cleveland-guardians","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-ozzie-guillen","15":"tag-paul-konerko","16":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","17":"tag-white-sox","18":"tag-whitesox","19":"tag-world-series"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116344368942077638","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}