{"id":14974,"date":"2019-06-29T08:41:44","date_gmt":"2019-06-29T14:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=14974"},"modified":"2019-06-30T08:53:48","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T14:53:48","slug":"over-yonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/over-yonder\/","title":{"rendered":"Over, Yonder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/yonder.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14975\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/yonder.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/yonder.jpg 800w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/yonder-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/yonder-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>Yesterday, the White Sox designated Yonder Alonso for assignment, ending a painful half season for the veteran slugger on the South Side. \u00a0In 251 plate appearances, the 32-year-old slugger has struggled to a career-worst .178\/.275\/.301 slash line, with 7 homers and 27 RBIs in 67 games.\u00a0 Acquired in December in part to attract his brother-in-law Manny Machado to sign with the White Sox as a free agent, Alonso was also expected to add some left handed pop and potentially be a bridge to the future if Jose Abreu, a free agent after this season, moves on.\u00a0 Unfortunately, none of those things worked out.<\/p>\n<p>Alonso&#8217;s\u00a0numbers in a White Sox uniform, both for games I attended and overall, were:<\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\">\n<caption><b>2019 Batting<\/b><\/caption>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th bgcolor=\"#c0c0c0\"><span style=\"color: #000000; 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font-family: Calibri;\">GIDPs<\/span><\/th>\n<th bgcolor=\"#c0c0c0\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Errors<\/span><\/th>\n<th bgcolor=\"#c0c0c0\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Games<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">0.094<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">32<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">1<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">3<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">3<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">3<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">6<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">0<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">0<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">0<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">0<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">2<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">0<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">11<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">0.178<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">219<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">23<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">39<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">27<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"color: #000000; 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