{"id":16731,"date":"2020-12-09T02:13:34","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T08:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=16731"},"modified":"2020-12-08T13:41:11","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T19:41:11","slug":"bringing-in-reinforcements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/bringing-in-reinforcements\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing In Reinforcements"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Four years and 2 days ago, the White Sox jumpstarted their rebuild by trading Adam Eaton\u00a0to the Nationals for pitchers Lucas\u00a0Giolito, Dane Dunning and Reynaldo Lopez.\u00a0 Yesterday, the White Sox tried to put that rebuild over the top by trading Dunning to the Rangers for Lance Lynn and signing Eaton to a one year deal to fill the hole in right field.<\/p>\n

Lynn, who will turn 34 before Opening Day, was linked to the White Sox at the trade deadline last year and should join Lucas Giolito and Dallas Keuchel in giving the team veteran leadership on the mound.\u00a0 He has finished in the top 10 in Cy Young voting each of the last 2 seasons.\u00a0 He will be a free agent following the 2021 season.\u00a0 Dunning, meanwhile, made his major league debut last year, starting 7 games as he worked his way back from Tommy John surgery.\u00a0 He started the decisive game 3 of the AL Wild Card series against the A’s, going only 2\/3 of an inning before getting pulled as the White Sox lost in their first post-season appearance since 2008.<\/p>\n

Eaton, 32, was a gold glove finalist in right field for the White Sox in 2015, but things went south the following year when he was\u00a0a vocal critic of the front office following the Drake LaRoche debacle during spring training.\u00a0 He blew out his knee in 2017 and missed most of that and the 2018 seasons.\u00a0 In 2019, he was a key part in the Nationals capturing their first World Series title, putting up an OPS of .993 during the series.<\/p>\n

Last week, the White Sox introduced their new coaching staff and the mantra coming out of that was World Series or bust.\u00a0 While giving up 6 years of control for Dunning for a single year of Lynn is a steep price, he at least should push the team in the right direction.\u00a0 Eaton, however, seems to be a throwback to the days of buying low and hoping for a breakout season.\u00a0 With better, but more expensive, options still available, this move does not announce to the world that the White Sox are all in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Four years and 2 days ago, the White Sox jumpstarted their rebuild by trading Adam Eaton\u00a0to the Nationals for pitchers Lucas\u00a0Giolito, Dane Dunning and Reynaldo Lopez.\u00a0 Yesterday, the White Sox tried to put that rebuild over the top by trading Dunning to the Rangers for Lance Lynn and signing Eaton to a one year deal […]<\/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":[123,2473,1672,6023,7033,7031,9100,7032,117,111,8035,2433,49,5569,3417],"class_list":["post-16731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-as","tag-adam-eaton","tag-cy-young-award","tag-dallas-keuchel","tag-dane-dunning","tag-drake-laroche","tag-lance-lynn","tag-lucas-giolito","tag-nationals","tag-rangers","tag-reynaldo-lopez","tag-tommy-john","tag-white-sox","tag-wild-card","tag-world-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16731","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=16731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16732,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16731\/revisions\/16732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}