{"id":18918,"date":"2022-04-01T10:53:17","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T16:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=18918"},"modified":"2022-04-01T10:53:17","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T16:53:17","slug":"moving-on-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/moving-on-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving On"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Last July, with an eye towards the postseason, the White Sox acquired Craig Kimbrel from the Cubs for second baseman Nick Madrigal and reliever Codi Heuer.\u00a0 To put it mildly, it didn’t work out.\u00a0 Working mostly as a setup man to Liam Hendriks, Kimbril posted a 5.09 ERA in 24 appearances with the White Sox down the stretch and then gave up 2 earned runs in 2 innings against the Astros in the ALDS.<\/p>\n

The White Sox picked up Kimbrel’s $16M option for 2022, looking to trade him and recoup some of the capital they spent to acquire him.\u00a0 Then, the lockout happened.\u00a0 When spring training camps opened with Kimbrel still on the roster, things looked dire.\u00a0 But, today, the White Sox announced they have traded Kimbrel to the Dodgers for outfielder A.J. Pollock.<\/p>\n

Pollock should fill a hole in right field, though he has very little experience there.\u00a0 He also brings some needed pop against RHP, with an .802 career OPS against righties.\u00a0 Best of all, he saves the White Sox $3-6 million, which will likely come in handy come trade deadline.\u00a0 Kimbrel, hopefully, can regain his form by moving back into the closer role with the Dodgers.<\/p>\n

Kimbrel’s numbers in a White Sox uniform, both for games I attended and overall, were:<\/p>\n

Career Pitching<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/tfoot>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last July, with an eye towards the postseason, the White Sox acquired Craig Kimbrel from the Cubs for second baseman Nick Madrigal and reliever Codi Heuer.\u00a0 To put it mildly, it didn’t work out.\u00a0 Working mostly as a setup man to Liam Hendriks, Kimbril posted a 5.09 ERA in 24 appearances with the White Sox […]<\/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":[9974,4953,2180,113,9662,4042,120,116,9660,8489,49],"class_list":["post-18918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-2022-lockout","tag-a-j-pollock","tag-alds","tag-astros","tag-codi-heuer","tag-craig-kimbrel","tag-cubs","tag-dodgers","tag-liam-hendriks","tag-nick-madrigal","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18918","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=18918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18920,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18918\/revisions\/18920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

Wins<\/span><\/th>\nLosses<\/span><\/th>\nERA<\/span><\/th>\nSaves<\/span><\/th>\nIP<\/span><\/th>\nHits<\/span><\/th>\nRuns<\/span><\/th>\nER<\/span><\/th>\nWalks<\/span><\/th>\nStrike Outs<\/span><\/th>\nHR<\/span><\/th>\nHBP<\/span><\/th>\nAppearances<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
0<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n9.00<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n8<\/span><\/td>\n11<\/span><\/td>\n9<\/span><\/td>\n8<\/span><\/td>\n2<\/span><\/td>\n10<\/span><\/td>\n4<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n9<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n
2<\/span><\/td>\n2<\/span><\/td>\n5.09<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n23<\/span><\/td>\n18<\/span><\/td>\n13<\/span><\/td>\n13<\/span><\/td>\n10<\/span><\/td>\n36<\/span><\/td>\n5<\/span><\/td>\n3<\/span><\/td>\n24<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n