Your Top 5 Home Run Hitters in '06

[Chisox73]

Who are your top 5 home run hitters for the White Sox this season?

I'll start this off here.

Paul Konerko 40
Jim Thome 39
Jermaine Dye 30
Joe Crede 25
AJ Pierzynski 18

[Francoeurstein]

I may not know the Sox real well but here goes:

1. Konerko 43
2. Thome 32
3. Jermaine Dye 28
4. Joe Crede 21
5. Pierzynski 18

[Chisox73]

Those are very good predictions.

[Chisox]

And I had to go and leave my database at home.
Well, a preliminary list would be:

Konerko hitting at .060 over 600AB would be 36 even
Thome hitting at .065 over 500AB would be 32.5, round to 33
Dye hitting at .050 over 600AB would be 30 even
Crede hitting at .040 over 600AB would be 24 even
Pierzynski hitting at .035 over 500AB would be 17.5, round to 18

A couple of dark horses
Iguchi/Uribe hitting at .035 over 600AB would be 21 even

Aaron 86, those are pretty modest goals for Chipper considering how good he was when he was playing last year. I'd consider that a good decline.

[TheKingofKings]

Konerko with around 40
Thome with about 25
Crede with 22
Dye with about 30
Uribe with about 18

[Chisox73]

Konerko with around 40
Thome with about 25
Crede with 22
Dye with about 30
Uribe with about 18

The way Thome's been hitting the ball this past week,25 may be a conservative estimate.