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Guillen Number, the percentage of a team's runs which come via home runs.

Named after manager Ozzie Guillen by Joe Sheehan, because Guillen's White Sox teams have owed much more of their scoring to homers than to the one-run strategies to which their success was often attributed. For historical backgrounds, see here.

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