Ozzie Guillen had a famous saying about A.J. Pierzynski that you’ve probably heard before.
"If you play against him, you hate him. If you play with him, you hate him a little less."
It would be hard for any player to match Pierzynski’s reputation, who was (and continues to be) beloved in Chicago but was booed and despised in almost every other MLB city.
And yet, here comes Tim Anderson.
“When you play against him, you kind of want to fight him all the time,” White Sox left-hander Dallas Keuchel said Wednesday.
Keuchel has experience playing against Anderson and now he is teammates with him, seeing a different side of the White Sox shortshop that won the American League batting title last year.