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Eighteen seasons gave him 2,340 hits, 439 home runs, 1,412 runs batted in and a .279 average across 2,349 games. He never led his league in a single counting statistic, not once in eighteen years, which is rare for a man with 439 home runs and is a fact about consistency rather than about peaks.

Sixteen of those seasons were with the White Sox, who acquired him from Cincinnati before 1999 and kept him until he retired. He was the most valuable player of the 2005 American League Championship Series, and Chicago won 99 games and the World Series that year, the club's first since 1917.

He was chosen for six All-Star teams and won the Roberto Clemente Award in 2014, his last season. The writers gave him ten votes out of 397 in 2020 and he came off the ballot after one appearance, which is the ordinary fate of a career built out of eighteen good seasons and no great ones.