{"id":20530,"date":"2023-08-01T15:30:46","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T21:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=20530"},"modified":"2023-08-01T15:30:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T21:30:46","slug":"one-burger-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/one-burger-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"One Burger To Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20531\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/burger.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/burger.jpg 900w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/burger-300x157.jpg 300w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/burger-768x402.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/>With a little more than an hour left before the trade deadline, word came down that the White Sox had traded Jake Burger to the Marlins for Jake Eder, the team&#8217;s fourth-ranked prospect.\u00a0 Burger, selected by the White Sox in the first round of the 2018 draft, missed three minor league seasons between 2018 and 2020 due to two torn Achilles tendons and the pandemic before making his major league debut in 2021.\u00a0 He has broken out as an offensive force this season, hitting 25 home runs, which puts him in a tie for third place in the American League.\u00a0 Defensively, he is probably fated to be a designated hitter unless he makes major improvements.<\/p>\n<p>Eder, a 24-year-old left-handed starter, had Tommy John surgery in 2021 and missed all of the 2022 season.\u00a0 In nine starts across two levels this year, he has a 4.12 ERA.\u00a0 If he can cut down on his walks, he should compete for a spot in the big league rotation in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a little more than an hour left before the trade deadline, word came down that the White Sox had traded Jake Burger to the Marlins for Jake Eder, the team&#8217;s fourth-ranked prospect.\u00a0 Burger, selected by the White Sox in the first round of the 2018 draft, missed three minor league seasons between 2018 and [&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":[2501,9686,10741,114,49],"class_list":["post-20530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-draft","tag-jake-burger","tag-jake-eder","tag-marlins","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20530","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=20530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20532,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20530\/revisions\/20532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}