page_title: Magglio Ordóñez
section_title: Chicago White Sox (1997–2004)
hierarchical_section_title: Magglio Ordóñez / Professional career / Chicago White Sox (1997–2004)
caption_attribution_description: Magglio Ordóñez bats for the Chicago White Sox, 1999.
context_page_description: Magglio José Ordóñez Delgado is a Venezuelan former professional baseball right fielder. He played for the Chicago White Sox and Detroit Tigers. Ordóñez is 5 feet 11 inches tall and weighs 215 lb. Having posted a career .309 batting average over 15 seasons, Ordóñez retired from the major leagues as a Tiger on June 3, 2012, in a ceremony at Comerica Park prior to the afternoon game.
  In 2013, he announced that he would be running for public office in his native country of Venezuela and was elected mayor of the Juan Antonio Sotillo Municipality on December 8, 2013.
context_section_description: Ordóñez spent the first eight years of his major league career playing with the Chicago White Sox.  In the five seasons prior to 2004, Ordóñez hit at least .300 with 29 home runs and 99 RBI, and reached the 30-home run, 100-RBI plateau in four of those seasons. He also collected over 70 extra-base hits from 2001 to 2003, but a collision with second baseman Willie Harris on Omar Vizquel's popup to right field during a May 19, 2004 game against the Cleveland Indians, cost him two trips to the disabled list and two surgeries on his left knee. He finished with .292, 9 home runs, and 37 RBI in 52 games. During the 2001 season when Ordóñez was teammates with Jose Canseco, Canseco claims he injected Ordóñez with steroids.
  During the 2003 off-season, Ordonez was almost traded to the Boston Red Sox. The Red Sox and Texas Rangers had been in discussions for weeks about Boston acquiring the reigning American League MVP, SS Alex Rodriguez for outfielder Manny Ramirez. The Red Sox then agreed in principle to trade its incumbent SS Nomar Garciaparra to the White Sox for Ordonez. When the Rodriguez-for-Ramirez trade fell through, the Red Sox decided to not trade Garciaparra and the Ordonez trade was called off as well.
caption: Ordóñez bats for the White Sox, 1999
exif: {"Image Make": "NORITSU KOKI", "Image Model": "EZ Controller", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "3000", "Image YResolution": "3000", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0 Windows", "Image DateTime": "2013:01:15 07:40:07", "Image ExifOffset": "224", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0220", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2013:01:10 18:24:44", "EXIF ComponentsConfiguration": "YCbCr", "EXIF FlashPixVersion": "0100", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "2091", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "1836", "EXIF FocalPlaneResolutionUnit": "3"}