Jim Thome's Greatest Hits with the Phillies

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Writers also questioned whether Thome's candidacy would be hindered by his lack of self-promotion and others' tendency to overlook him. Jim Thome's number 25 was retired by the Cleveland Indians in 2018.On July 2, 2013, Thome joined the White Sox organization as special assistant to the general manager. However, on August 2, 2014, he signed a one-day contract with the Cleveland Indians to retire officially as a member of the team.

Traded to the Chicago White Sox before the 2006 season, he won the American League Comeback Player of the Year Award that year and joined the 500 home run club during his three-season tenure with the ChiSox. By this point in his career, back pain limited Thome to being a designated hitter. After stints with the Los Angeles Dodgers and Minnesota Twins, he made brief returns to Cleveland and Philadelphia, before ending his career with the Baltimore Orioles.

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But Thome returned to play for old pal Charlie Manuel and hopefully provide some of the power Howard and Utley wouldn’t be providing. He became the eighth-most all-time—along with 2,328 hits, 1,699 runs batted in RBI, and a .276 batting average. He served as a member of five All-Star teams and won a Silver Slugger Award in 1996. Jim Thome became the 37th major league player to hit 400 homers, connecting for a two-run shot in the first inning last night for the host Philadelphia Phillies against Cincinnati. Thome is regarded as a great example of a "pure" power hitter, as indicated by his .278 Isolated Power rating. Thome's consistency was a draw for clubs to continue to sign him, even toward the very end of his 22-year career and after most sluggers' productivity fades.

Cleveland returned to the World Series, but they lost to the Florida Marlins in seven games; Thome hit .286 with two home runs and four RBIs in the World Series. Like his older brothers, Thome attended Limestone High School where he achieved all-state honors in basketball and as a baseball shortstop. He played American Legion Baseball for Bartonville Limestone Post 979 in his hometown, as well. Thome graduated in 1988 and, after not being drafted, enrolled at Illinois Central College where he continued his baseball and basketball careers.

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Unfortunately, neither MLB.com or Youtube has a highlight of the home run . Given the context, the place and time of the franchise, and what would follow in the next decade, this may have been the most memorable free agent courting in Philadelphia history. You could probably make an argument that Jim Thome was the most underrated hitter of his generation, which is crazy to say when you consider he hit over 600 home runs. "Jim's signing ushered in a new era of Phillies baseball," said Executive Vice President David Buck. After Ruth, Ott was the next to reach 400 home runs -- and the first in the National League. The Reds' Ken Griffey Jr., who began yesterday with 499 home runs, was being rested and was not in the starting lineup.

As the 2000 season wrapped up, Palmeiro drilled his milestone homer with just six games left in the campaign. Bagwell collected his 399th and 400th career homers in a 6-3 Astros win over the Reds during a Sunday matinee. Both came off right-hander Danny Graves, a former closer who was attempting to resurrect his career as a starter. Delgado hit a grand slam for his milestone 400th homer against the Cardinals for his second of the day.

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Thome became Chicago's regular designated hitter in April 2006 and flourished in his first season in Chicago. He set the team record for most home runs in the month of April , overtaking Frank Thomas's previous record by one. He also set a major league record by scoring in each of Chicago's first 17 games.

Thome would hit 212 more home runs in his career through 2012, before his summer 2018 induction into Cooperstown. And, on the 14-year anniversary of his 400th blast, the team honored him with a pregame ceremony. The bad weather was well worth it for Phillies fans; at the time, there were some nerves as to whether the game would become official.

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After one season, he was drafted by MLB's Cleveland Indians as an "afterthought" in the 13th round of the 1989 MLB draft. Since signing with the Twins before last season, Thome has been a popular figure at Target Field — both in the clubhouse and for the paying customers in the seats. He hit 25 home runs last season in just 276 at-bats, many of them moon shots that sailed high into the Minneapolis air and caused players, coaches, fans and everyone else to shake their head in amusement and astonishment. Jim hit 47 home runs in his first season with the Phillies, finishing one behind Mike Schmidt’s single-season team record of 48 in 1980, and tied with Alex Rodriguez for the MLB lead in 2003. On June 14, 2004, at Citizens Bank Park, he hit his 400th career home run, surpassing Al Kaline for 37th on the all-time home run list.

In 2011, he was ranked the sixth-best designated hitter in MLB history by Fox Sports. During his career, he compiled a .284 batting average against fastballs but compiled just a .170 batting average against sliders. On June 4, 2008, Thome hit a 464-foot home run—which at the time was the ninth-longest home run in U.S.

It was his third home run of the year for the Devil Rays in an eventual 7-6, extra-inning loss to the Blue Jays. Ripken hit his 400th home run in his 19th season as an Oriole, and less than six months after his father, Cal Sr., passed away from lung cancer. Ripken received two curtain calls at Camden Yards, as he pointed to his mother in the stands his second time out of the dugout. Sammy Sosa had a hit in four at-bats yesterday in the second game of a rehabilitation assignment with the Chicago Cubs' Class AA affiliate in Jackson, Tenn.

After one season, he became drafted by MLB’s Cleveland Indians as an “afterthought” in the 13th round of the 1989 MLB draft. He was born and raised in Peoria, Illinois by his parents Chuck Thome Jr. and Joyce Thome. Jim is the youngest of five children including Lori Larson, Chuck III, Kari, Randy, and Jenny Ellis. Many of his family played sports, his father built bulldozers for Caterpillar and played slow-pitch softball, and his two older brothers, Chuck III and Randy played baseball at Limestone High School. May 2, 2012 Philadelphia Phillies placed 1B Jim Thome on the 15-day disabled list retroactive to April 29, 2012.

In July 1998, Thome hit his 24th home run of that season while helping the Indians end the Yankees' 10-game winning streak. In the bottom of the ninth inning with one man on base, which gave the White Sox a 9–7 victory. Thome became the 23rd major leaguer to reach the milestone and the third in the 2007 season as well as the first ever to do it with a walk-off shot.

He ended the 2004 season with 42 homers, giving him 423 for his career, which placed him 35th on the career list. Fighting injuries during a frustrating season in Minnesota, Thome hasn't received nearly the amount of national publicity that his predecessors who reached the milestone did. Even Derek Jeter's accomplishment of 3,000 hits earlier this season dwarfed the attention Thome has been getting for a chase that's far more rare.

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After attending Illinois Central College, he was drafted by the Indians in the 1989 draft, and made his big league debut in 1991. Early in his career, Thome played third base, before eventually becoming a first baseman. With the Indians, he was part of a core of players that led the franchise to two World Series appearances in three years during the mid-1990s. Thome spent over a decade with the Tribe, before leaving via free agency after the 2002 season, to join the Philadelphia Phillies, with whom he spent the following three seasons.