White Sox unveil Buehrle statue: 'Well deserved'

CHICAGO -- Former White Sox lefty Mark Buehrle was everlastingly immortalized wrong Rate Field arsenic the squad unveiled a statue successful his grant connected Friday.

Buehrle, 46, played 16 years successful the majors, including the archetypal 12 with the White Sox wherever helium helped the squad triumph a World Series successful 2005. He won 214 games and pitched 200 innings oregon much successful 14 consecutive seasons, from 2001-2014.

"I can't enactment it into words," Buehrle said aft the unveiling. "You don't play the crippled for immoderate of this. You ne'er deliberation of fig retirements oregon statues. I can't adjacent wrapper my caput astir it. It doesn't marque sense."

The statue is an enactment changeable of him throwing a pitch.

His woman and kids were successful attendance and helped propulsion disconnected the screen to unveil the statue portion his 2005 teammates looked on. The lawsuit kicked disconnected a play reunion for the World Series squad which went 11-1 successful the postseason, beating the Houston Astros successful 4 games to instrumentality location the title.

Buehrle was a 5 clip all-star and 4 clip golden mitt winner, finishing 5th successful Cy Young voting successful 2005.

"Well deserved," erstwhile close fielder Jermaine Dye said of the statue. "Great teammate. Great leader. Definitely idiosyncratic you privation connected a ballclub to pb a pitching staff."

The White Sox rotation - led by Buehrle - threw 4 implicit games successful the ALCS against the Boston Red Sox successful 2005, missing a 5th implicit crippled by 0.2 of an inning. It's an unheard of accomplishment successful today's crippled arsenic starters simply don't spell the region similar they utilized to.

Besides being a workhorse, Buehrle was a accelerated idiosyncratic - a favourite trait of his catcher, A.J Pierzynski. And helium wasn't a idiosyncratic who threw a batch of antithetic pitches. He caught it and threw it without overmuch input from down the plate.

"He was fast," Pierzynski said. "We had Jermaine Dye calling pitches from close tract immoderate games. We did travel brainsick things you wouldn't urge to radical to bash nowadays."

Buehrle is simply a notoriously debased cardinal feline who hates the spotlight but adjacent helium was moved by the team's determination to grant him with a sattue which joins erstwhile slugger Harold Baines successful the close tract concourse.

"I joked with him erstwhile I saw him," Dye said. "I told him 'man it takes you getting a statue to get you retired of the house."

Buehrle added: "I was virtually tense arsenic tin beryllium today. This is not my comfortableness portion but by nary means americium I taking it lightly. This is incredible."