{"id":6923,"date":"2014-10-23T18:43:27","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T00:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=6923"},"modified":"2014-10-23T18:43:27","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T00:43:27","slug":"picking-up-some-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/picking-up-some-hardware\/","title":{"rendered":"Picking Up Some Hardware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/abreu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6924\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/abreu.jpg\" alt=\"abreu\" width=\"819\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/abreu.jpg 819w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/abreu-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s been a busy week for White Sox first baseman Jose Abreu, first picking up the Sporting News AL Rookie of the Year award on Monday and then being named the first baseman for the AL All Star team announced yesterday, also from Sporting News. \u00a0Abreu is the first White Sox player to win the Rookie of the Year award since Gordon Beckham in 2009 and the first AL All Star selected by Sporting News voters since Alexei Ramirez in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Abreu should bring home another award next month when the BBWAA announces their Rookie of the Year award. \u00a0Hopefully, it&#8217;s just the start of a long and prosperous career that sees him get many awards, and maybe even a ring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a busy week for White Sox first baseman Jose Abreu, first picking up the Sporting News AL Rookie of the Year award on Monday and then being named the first baseman for the AL All Star team announced yesterday, also from Sporting News. \u00a0Abreu is the first White Sox player to win the [&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":[268,2933,138,4187,2429,49],"class_list":["post-6923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-alexei-ramirez","tag-bbwaa","tag-gordon-beckham","tag-jose-abreu","tag-the-sporting-news","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6923","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=6923"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6927,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6923\/revisions\/6927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}