Former White Sox, Red Sox Pitcher Battling Stage 4 Cancer: Report
February 15, 2025
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J.P. Hoornstra writes and edits Major League Baseball content. A veteran of 20 years of sports coverage for daily newspapers in California, J.P. covered MLB, the Los Angeles Dodgers, and the Los Angeles Angels (occasionally of Anaheim) from 2012-23 for the Southern California News Group. His first book, The 50 Greatest Dodgers Games of All-Time, published in 2015. In 2016, he won an Associated Press Sports Editors award for breaking news coverage. He once recorded a keyboard solo on the same album as two of the original Doors.
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A hard-throwing closer who helped the White Sox win their win their most recent World Series appearance is battling Stage 4 stomach cancer.
According to Scott Merkin of MLB.com, Bobby Jenks is being treated for Stage 4 adenocarcinoma, a form of stomach cancer, at a hospital near his wife’s family in Portugal.
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Merkin reports that Jenks also lost his Pacific Palisades home in a fire.
Jermaine Dye #23, Bobby Jenks #45 and Mark Kotsay #30 of the Chicago White Sox in the dugout before the game against the Oakland Athletics during the 1929-themed turn back the clock game at the… Jermaine Dye #23, Bobby Jenks #45 and Mark Kotsay #30 of the Chicago White Sox in the dugout before the game against the Oakland Athletics during the 1929-themed turn back the clock game at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, California on August 16, 2009.
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“You know, the s–t I was doing in my 20s and early 30s, no normal person would have survived,” Jenks told Merkin. “So, in one way, I’m grateful to be alive. In another way, I’m not surprised this happened. It goes to show you have to take care of yourself from top to bottom with nutrition and exercise and having a good daily plan.
“I’m not saying you need to turn yourself into a Greek god, but you need to watch what you put into your body. Unfortunately, in my 20s, it was the last thing on my mind, being worried about what was going in. I’m not saying that’s 100 percent the factor of what happened here.”
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Jenks had a brief but memorable seven-year career. He debuted in July 2005 with the White Sox and by October of that year, was hoisting a World Series trophy as the team’s closer.
Over the next five seasons, Jenks made two All-Star teams and averaged 33 saves a season.
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