{"id":8870,"date":"2015-10-02T19:06:38","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T01:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=8870"},"modified":"2015-10-02T19:06:38","modified_gmt":"2015-10-03T01:06:38","slug":"small-shakeup-for-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/small-shakeup-for-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Shakeup For 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/EP-701249829.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8871\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/EP-701249829.jpg\" alt=\"EP-701249829\" width=\"520\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/EP-701249829.jpg 520w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/EP-701249829-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a>The White Sox officially announced the disappointing, but not totally unexpected news that Robin Ventura will return as manager for 2016. \u00a0Bench coach Mark Parent has been let go, and has decided to skip the final 3 games of this season. \u00a0Assistant hitting coach Harold Baines has decided to transition into a team ambassador role. \u00a0The rest of the coaching staff is expected to return in their current roles.<\/p>\n<p>Given the disappointment that was this season, one would have expected heads to roll. \u00a0But Jerry Reinsdorf never follows expectations, and he has his favorites. \u00a0Ventura will be given another chance, but I don&#8217;t see him surviving a fourth straight losing season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White Sox officially announced the disappointing, but not totally unexpected news that Robin Ventura will return as manager for 2016. \u00a0Bench coach Mark Parent has been let go, and has decided to skip the final 3 games of this season. \u00a0Assistant hitting coach Harold Baines has decided to transition into a team ambassador role. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[47,1670,5913,45,49],"class_list":["post-8870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-harold-baines","tag-jerry-reinsdorf","tag-mark-parent","tag-robin-ventura","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8870","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8872,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8870\/revisions\/8872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}