{"id":16367,"date":"2020-07-10T18:53:47","date_gmt":"2020-07-11T00:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=16367"},"modified":"2020-07-10T18:53:47","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T00:53:47","slug":"opting-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/opting-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Opting Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/happy-michael-kopech-day\/kopech\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13756\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13756\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/kopech.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"756\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/kopech.jpg 756w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/kopech-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 756px) 100vw, 756px\" \/><\/a>The White Sox announced tonight that pitcher Michael Kopech, who had yet to report to camp due to personal issues, has decided to opt out of the 2020 season.\u00a0 Kopech, who missed the 2019 season while recovering from Tommy John surgery, will not accrue service time and will not be paid for the season.\u00a0 Assuming the 2021 season starts on time, opening day will be\u00a0939 days since his last outing in September of 2018,<\/p>\n<p>Kopech becomes the first Chicago player to opt out and the first major league player to opt out for whom the missed service time would make a discernible difference.\u00a0 I doubt he will be the last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White Sox announced tonight that pitcher Michael Kopech, who had yet to report to camp due to personal issues, has decided to opt out of the 2020 season.\u00a0 Kopech, who missed the 2019 season while recovering from Tommy John surgery, will not accrue service time and will not be paid for the season.\u00a0 Assuming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[7028,2433,49],"class_list":["post-16367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-michael-kopech","tag-tommy-john","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16367","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16368,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16367\/revisions\/16368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}