{"id":15830,"date":"2020-03-06T17:43:11","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T23:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=15830"},"modified":"2020-03-07T17:58:59","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T23:58:59","slug":"keeping-the-core-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/keeping-the-core-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping The Core Together"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The White Sox announced today that they had signed Yoan Moncada to a 5 year, $70 million extension, with a team option that could keep him on the south side through 2025. \u00a0“I wanted to be with this team,” Moncada said through an interpreter.\u00a0 “With all this happening, I can say I\u2019m going to play alongside (left fielder) Eloy (Jimenez) and (center fielder) Luis Robert for a very long time, and that\u2019s going to be a key for the success of this team.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moncada will receive a $4 million signing bonus, $1 million in 2020, $6 million in 2021, $13 million in 2022, $17 million in 2023 and $24 million in 2024. The Sox hold an option for $25 million in 2025, with a $5 million buyout.\u00a0 If the option gets executed, it will make this the largest contract in White Sox history.<\/p>\n

With Moncada locked up, the White Sox have most of the core of their rebuild under team control through the early part of this decade.\u00a0 Newly acquired right fielder Nomar Mazara and oft-injured pitcher Carlos Rodon are under control through the 2021 season.\u00a0 First baseman Jose Abreu is signed through 2022.\u00a0 Yasmani Grandal and pitchers Lucas Giolito and Reynaldo Lopez should be here through 2023.\u00a0 Tim Anderson and Michael Kopech are locked up through 2024.\u00a0 Moncada and Dylan Cease are under team control through 2025.\u00a0 Eloy Jimenez and Aaron Bummer are signed through 2026, and Luis Robert is on board through 2027.\u00a0 This doesn’t even include Nick Madrigal and Andrew Vaughn, the team’s last two top draft picks, who have yet to make their debut and start their clocks.<\/p>\n

After quite a few years of bad baseball, the future looks very bright on the south side of Chicago.\u00a0 Rick Hahn has put the pieces in place to turn the team into contenders.\u00a0 It’s time to see if the plan comes together and winning baseball can return to Guaranteed Rate Field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The White Sox announced today that they had signed Yoan Moncada to a 5 year, $70 million extension, with a team option that could keep him on the south side through 2025. \u00a0“I wanted to be with this team,” Moncada said through an interpreter.\u00a0 “With all this happening, I can say I\u2019m going to play […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[7626,8838,5574,7512,7511,6917,4187,7032,8123,7028,8489,8496,8035,3251,5985,49,8483,7027],"class_list":["post-15830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-aaron-bummer","tag-andrew-vaughn","tag-carlos-rodon","tag-dylan-cease","tag-eloy-jimenez","tag-guaranteed-rate-field","tag-jose-abreu","tag-lucas-giolito","tag-luis-robert","tag-michael-kopech","tag-nick-madrigal","tag-nomar-mazara","tag-reynaldo-lopez","tag-rick-hahn","tag-tim-anderson","tag-white-sox","tag-yasmani-grandal","tag-yoan-moncada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15832,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15830\/revisions\/15832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}