{"id":21334,"date":"2024-04-13T05:52:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-13T11:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=21334"},"modified":"2024-04-14T10:17:45","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T16:17:45","slug":"end-of-the-road-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/end-of-the-road-4\/","title":{"rendered":"End Of The Road?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Five years ago, expectations were high as the fruits of the White Sox rebuild were starting to pay dividends and the team, looking to contend for years to come, inked third baseman Yoan Moncada to a five-year extension<\/a>.\u00a0 Through an interpreter, Moncada said, \u201cWith all this happening, I can say I\u2019m going to play alongside (left fielder) Eloy (Jimenez) and (center fielder) Luis Robert for a very long time, and that\u2019s going to be a key for the success of this team.\u201d\u00a0 Since that time, the White Sox have played 557 games.\u00a0 Jimenez, Robert, and Moncada have played together in just 161 of them.<\/p>\n

Eloy Jimenez and Luis Robert were already on the IL with leg injuries when Yoan Moncada came up lame while running to first base during the second inning of Tuesday’s contest against the Guardians.\u00a0 He was diagnosed with a left abductor strain, which is expected to keep him on the shelf for 3-6 months, likely ending his White Sox career.\u00a0 That contract extension, signed days before the global pandemic shut down spring training in 2020, is up after this season and the White Sox seem unlikely to exercise the $25 million option for 2025.<\/p>\n

Moncada, who was part of the haul received from the Red Sox in the Chris Sale<\/a> deal that kicked off the last rebuild, was ranked as the #1 prospect in all of baseball.\u00a0 After some initial struggles, he seemed to turn the corner in 2019, hitting .315 with 25 home runs and 79 RBIs, but that has been the high point of his career.\u00a0 A bout with COVID knocked his 2020 season off course, and injuries have been a constant concern ever since.\u00a0 Will he ever take the field in a White Sox uniform again?\u00a0 If he does, it will be to play out the string in what was going to be a long, arduous season even if everything went right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Five years ago, expectations were high as the fruits of the White Sox rebuild were starting to pay dividends and the team, looking to contend for years to come, inked third baseman Yoan Moncada to a five-year extension.\u00a0 Through an interpreter, Moncada said, \u201cWith all this happening, I can say I\u2019m going to play alongside […]<\/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":[574,8844,7511,9687,8123,258,49,7027],"class_list":["post-21334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-chris-sale","tag-corona-virus","tag-eloy-jimenez","tag-guardians","tag-luis-robert","tag-red-sox","tag-white-sox","tag-yoan-moncada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21334","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=21334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21335,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21334\/revisions\/21335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}