{"id":19784,"date":"2022-12-20T09:01:49","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T15:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=19784"},"modified":"2022-12-19T09:24:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T15:24:07","slug":"the-cubs-get-their-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/the-cubs-get-their-man\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cubs Get Their Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/dansby-swanson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19785\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/dansby-swanson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/dansby-swanson.jpg 720w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/dansby-swanson-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a>After being linked to nearly all four of the star free agent shortstops this winter, the Cubs nabbed the last one on the table, getting Dansby Swanson on a seven-year, $177 million deal.\u00a0 The deal is expected to include a full no-trade clause.\u00a0 Since the Braves had given Swanson a qualifying offer, the Cubs will lose their second-round draft pick and $500,000 in international free agent allocation.<\/p>\n<p>Swanson, who will turn 29 prior to the start of the 2023 season, put together the best offensive season of his career last year.\u00a0 He will push Nico Hoerner to second base, giving the Cubs a solid defense in the middle of the infield.\u00a0 It also leaves Nick Madrigal, acquired from the White Sox in 2021, on the outside looking in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After being linked to nearly all four of the star free agent shortstops this winter, the Cubs nabbed the last one on the table, getting Dansby Swanson on a seven-year, $177 million deal.\u00a0 The deal is expected to include a full no-trade clause.\u00a0 Since the Braves had given Swanson a qualifying offer, the Cubs will [&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":[125,120,10258,8489,10145,49],"class_list":["post-19784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-braves","tag-cubs","tag-dansby-swanson","tag-nick-madrigal","tag-nico-hoerner","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19784","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=19784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19786,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19784\/revisions\/19786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}