{"id":19218,"date":"2022-08-04T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T12:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=19218"},"modified":"2022-08-03T16:30:34","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T22:30:34","slug":"a-deafening-thud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/a-deafening-thud\/","title":{"rendered":"A Deafening Thud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=19221\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19221\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19221\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/contreras_happ_hug.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/contreras_happ_hug.jpg 540w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/contreras_happ_hug-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/contreras_happ_hug-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a>Last year, the Cubs and the White Sox made a lot of noise at the trade deadline, making six deals involving stars like <a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/a-flurry-of-activity\/\">Craig Kimbrel<\/a>, Javy Baez, <a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/end-of-the-road-3\/\">Anthony Rizzo<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/end-of-an-era-2\/\">Kris Bryant<\/a>.\u00a0 With the White Sox looking to make a move to overtake the Twins and Guardians in the AL Central and the Cubs looking to further divest themselves of championship pieces like Willson Contreras and Ian Happ, this year&#8217;s deadline was sure to be a wild and crazy time.\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, each time made some small moves, with the Cubs emptying out their bullpen of anyone with a pulse and the White Sox adding a bullpen arm, but those expected big moves didn&#8217;t happen.\u00a0 Willson Contreras, a free agent at year&#8217;s end, is still a Cub.\u00a0 It is safe to say nobody had this on their bingo card.<\/p>\n<p>So where do we go from here?\u00a0 For the White Sox, Rick Hahn and company have to hope that getting their stars healthy provides enough of a boost to sneak into the postseason for a third consecutive year.\u00a0 On the north side of town, things are a little stickier.\u00a0 By not trading Contreras, he will play out the year and will likely be given a qualifying offer heading into free agency, which, at best, will cost him money and, at worst, could leave him sitting at home well into the start of the 2023 season.\u00a0 Ian Happ is under team control for another year, so, short of an offseason deal, he will go through this same dance next July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, the Cubs and the White Sox made a lot of noise at the trade deadline, making six deals involving stars like Craig Kimbrel, Javy Baez, Anthony Rizzo, and Kris Bryant.\u00a0 With the White Sox looking to make a move to overtake the Twins and Guardians in the AL Central and the Cubs looking [&hellip;]<\/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":[2363,4042,120,9687,7623,4947,5046,118,49,7454],"class_list":["post-19218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-anthony-rizzo","tag-craig-kimbrel","tag-cubs","tag-guardians","tag-ian-happ","tag-javier-baez","tag-kris-bryant","tag-twins","tag-white-sox","tag-willson-contreras"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19218","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=19218"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19222,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19218\/revisions\/19222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}