{"id":7982,"date":"2015-04-22T19:23:28","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T01:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=7982"},"modified":"2015-04-22T19:23:28","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T01:23:28","slug":"you-get-a-prospect-and-you-get-a-prospect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/you-get-a-prospect-and-you-get-a-prospect\/","title":{"rendered":"You Get A Prospect!  And You Get A Prospect!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/chi-russell.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7984\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/chi-russell.jpg\" alt=\"chi-russell\" width=\"575\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/chi-russell.jpg 575w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/chi-russell-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/a>Apparently, the joy of calling up Kris Bryant on Friday wore off for Cub nation, so they decided to dip in to the well one more time on Monday when they decided to call up Addison Russell, the stud shortstop prospect they acquired from the A&#8217;s in the Jeff Samadzija trade. \u00a0Russell, who had been moved to second base last week, replaces Arismendy Alcantara, who kicked off the prospect parade <a title=\"The Future Is Now?\" href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/the-future-is-now\/\">last summer<\/a>\u00a0but had struggled in limited playing time this year, on the roster. \u00a0Like Bryant, Russell struggled in his major league debut, going hitless in 5 at bats and garnering 3 strike outs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/carlosrodon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7986\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/carlosrodon.jpg\" alt=\"AP INDIANS WHITE SOX BASEBALL S BBA USA IL\" width=\"500\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/carlosrodon.jpg 500w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/carlosrodon-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>Not to be outdone, the White Sox also decided to call up their top prospect on Monday. \u00a0Carlos Rodon, the team&#8217;s first round draft pick last summer, was slated to join the starting rotation at some point this season, but instead was brought up to head to the bullpen. \u00a0He also made his debut Tuesday night, and it was also a rocky one. \u00a0He gave up 2 runs on 3 hits and 3 walks in 2 and a third innings.<\/p>\n<p>Chances are both will bounce back and help their respective teams this summer and for years to come. \u00a0The hopes of an entire city lie on their shoulders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, the joy of calling up Kris Bryant on Friday wore off for Cub nation, so they decided to dip in to the well one more time on Monday when they decided to call up Addison Russell, the stud shortstop prospect they acquired from the A&#8217;s in the Jeff Samadzija trade. \u00a0Russell, who had been [&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":[123,4944,5033,5574,120,2501,626,5046,49],"class_list":["post-7982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-as","tag-addison-russell","tag-arismendy-alcantara","tag-carlos-rodon","tag-cubs","tag-draft","tag-jeff-samardzija","tag-kris-bryant","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7982","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=7982"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7987,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7982\/revisions\/7987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}