The Chicago White Sox left fielder had a .340/.383/.710 slash line with eight doubles, nine home runs and 25 RBIs in the month to finish his rookie season with a flourish.
“At the beginning (of the season) I was just worrying about (how) I needed to play hard and I needed to do this and I needed to do that,” Jimenez said during a conference call Saturday. “But at the end, I just said I’m going to play hard and if it’s happening it’s happening, if it’s not, another day.
“I think that helped me a lot, that got me out of the pressure to just go and have fun.