{"id":6333,"date":"2014-06-27T08:48:17","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T14:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=6333"},"modified":"2014-06-26T19:01:05","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T01:01:05","slug":"good-riddance-scott-downs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/good-riddance-scott-downs\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Riddance, Scott Downs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/940x.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6334\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/940x.jpg\" alt=\"Scott Downs\" width=\"512\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/940x.jpg 512w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/940x-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a>After a week that saw the White Sox drop 6 out of 7 games, all of which they had an opportunity to win if their bullpen wasn&#8217;t made out of swiss cheese, the team started to purge itself of the dead weight by designating Scott Downs for assignment.\u00a0 Downs, who signed a one year deal for $4 million during the offseason with an option for 2015, displayed no actual pitching talent this season beyond coming in to walk the one left handed batter he was brought in to face.<\/p>\n<p>His last appearance on a mound for the White Sox came Wednesday night, when he\u00a0sported a giant smirk on his face after being brought in to face Chris Davis and walking him to load the bases before a grand slam tied the game.\u00a0 He finishes\u00a0his White Sox career\u00a0with a 6.08 ERA and 15 walks in 23 2\/3 innings, but, because he is left handed, he will likely be given additional chances to blow games for someone else this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a week that saw the White Sox drop 6 out of 7 games, all of which they had an opportunity to win if their bullpen wasn&#8217;t made out of swiss cheese, the team started to purge itself of the dead weight by designating Scott Downs for assignment.\u00a0 Downs, who signed a one year deal [&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":[4106,4913,49],"class_list":["post-6333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-chris-davis","tag-scott-downs","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6333","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=6333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6335,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6333\/revisions\/6335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}