{"id":10028,"date":"2015-02-01T17:47:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T22:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=10028"},"modified":"2015-02-01T17:47:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T22:47:00","slug":"jeff-samardzija-open-to-extension-with-white-sox-andruw-jones-seems-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2015\/02\/01\/jeff-samardzija-open-to-extension-with-white-sox-andruw-jones-seems-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Samardzija open to extension with White Sox, Andruw Jones seems return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9537\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/jeffsamardzija.jpg\" alt=\"jeffsamardzija\" width=\"594\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/jeffsamardzija.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/jeffsamardzija-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jeff Samardzija has yet to throw a pitch for the White Sox but would be open to signing an extension with the team.<\/p>\n<p>Samardzija will become a free agent at the end of the season and reportedly will see &#8220;how it is&#8221; with the White Sox before making a decision on whether or not he will hit free agency. Previously the right hander had suggested that he preferred to hit free agency and test the market.<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not the White Sox will be able to lock up Samardzija remains to be seen. The White Sox at-least have the fact that Samardzija grew up in Merrillville, Indiana and his connection to Notre Dame going for them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Andruw Jones seeks return to MLB<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Outfielder Andruw Jones seeks to return to the major leagues in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Jones has spent the last two seasons playing in Japan hitting 50 home runs over the span but posting just .243 and .221 batting averages.<\/p>\n<p>If Jones wants to return he will have to do so on a minor league deal and surely will be nothing more than a platoon player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Samardzija has yet to throw a pitch for the White Sox but would be open to signing an extension with the team. Samardzija will become a free agent at the end of the season and reportedly will see &#8220;how it is&#8221; with the White Sox before making a decision on whether or not he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-10028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10029,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10028\/revisions\/10029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10028"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}