{"id":15231,"date":"2019-11-23T15:18:41","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T21:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=15231"},"modified":"2019-11-23T15:18:41","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T21:18:41","slug":"the-white-sox-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/the-white-sox-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"The White Sox Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The hot stove warmed up a bit this past week as the White Sox\u00a0signed former Brewers catcher Yasmani Grandal\u00a0to a four-year, $73 million contract, the largest deal in franchise history.\u00a0 Grandal improves the White Sox both behind the plate, where he ranked second in framing metrics according to FanGraphs, and at the plate, where his 2019 OPS would have ranked third on the White Sox, behind Yoan Moncada and Tim Anderson.<\/p>\n

Grandal also adds some much needed patience in the batter’s box, finishing second in the major leagues with a 17.2% walk rate.\u00a0 His total of 109 bases on balls was 25 more than the top 2 White Sox leaders in the category, Moncada and Yolmer Sanchez, who combined for 84 walks.\u00a0 As a switch hitter, Grandal also gives the south siders some much needed pop from the left hand side.<\/p>\n

For the time being, Grandal, James McCann, and Zack Collins look to be splitting time between catcher and DH, with some backup work at first base thrown in for good measure.\u00a0 The addition of a 26th man to the active roster makes keeping 3 catchers feasible.\u00a0 But. the offseason is still young and, one would hope, there are plenty of additional moves to make before the White Sox report to spring training.<\/p>\n

To make room for Grandal on the roster, the White Sox designated Daniel Palka for assignment.\u00a0 After a surprising rookie year in 2018, Palka crashed spectacularly last year.\u00a0 He’s likely to catch on with another rebuilding team in the hopes of regaining some of his mojo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The hot stove warmed up a bit this past week as the White Sox\u00a0signed former Brewers catcher Yasmani Grandal\u00a0to a four-year, $73 million contract, the largest deal in franchise history.\u00a0 Grandal improves the White Sox both behind the plate, where he ranked second in framing metrics according to FanGraphs, and at the plate, where his […]<\/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":[121,8031,8484,8120,5985,49,8483,7027,7491,8125],"class_list":["post-15231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-brewers","tag-daniel-palka","tag-fangraphs","tag-james-mccann","tag-tim-anderson","tag-white-sox","tag-yasmani-grandal","tag-yoan-moncada","tag-yolmer-sanchez","tag-zack-collins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15233,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15231\/revisions\/15233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}