{"id":10098,"date":"2015-03-05T15:20:10","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T20:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=10098"},"modified":"2015-03-05T15:20:10","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T20:20:10","slug":"chris-sale-not-expected-to-be-ready-for-opening-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2015\/03\/05\/chris-sale-not-expected-to-be-ready-for-opening-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Sale not expected to be ready for Opening Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_8618\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8618\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/07\/chrissale.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"429\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8618\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/07\/chrissale.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/07\/chrissale-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8618\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Chicago White Sox are not expected to have left hander Chris Sale on the mound come Opening Day.<\/p>\n<p>Sale suffered a fracture in his right foot back on Feb. 27 while at his home and is expected to be shut down for another two weeks. CBS Sports&#8217; Jon Heyman reports that there has been no indication that Sale will be ready for the start of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old Sale is a Cy Young candidate when healthy and his absence would be a blow to the White Sox early.<\/p>\n<p>In 26 starts last season Sale was 12-4 with a 2.17 ERA and a 0.97 WHIP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago White Sox are not expected to have left hander Chris Sale on the mound come Opening Day. Sale suffered a fracture in his right foot back on Feb. 27 while at his home and is expected to be shut down for another two weeks. CBS Sports&#8217; Jon Heyman reports that there has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[181,229,503,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-10098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-chris-sale","tag-front","tag-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10098","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=10098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10099,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10098\/revisions\/10099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10098"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}