{"id":10920,"date":"2017-12-04T13:24:11","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T18:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=10920"},"modified":"2017-12-04T13:24:11","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T18:24:11","slug":"white-sox-hire-omar-vizquel-to-coach-class-a-winston-salem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2017\/12\/04\/white-sox-hire-omar-vizquel-to-coach-class-a-winston-salem\/","title":{"rendered":"White Sox hire Omar Vizquel to coach Class A Winston-Salem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10921\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2017\/12\/omarvizquel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2017\/12\/omarvizquel.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2017\/12\/omarvizquel-300x238.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The White Sox have hired Omar Vizquel as their new manager for Class A Winston-Salem.<\/p>\n<p>Last season Vizquel served as the first base coach for the Tigers. He interviewed for the teams manager&#8217;s job after Brad Ausmus was fired but lost out on the gig to former Twins manager Ron Gardenhire.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WhiteSox?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WhiteSox<\/a> have named former major-league infielder Omar Vizquel as the new manager at Class A Winston-Salem. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xgOe9RFAz2\">pic.twitter.com\/xgOe9RFAz2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chicago White Sox (@whitesox) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/whitesox\/status\/937734761522581504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 4, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Vizquel, 50, spent the 2010 and 2011 seasons with the White Sox and will use the opportunity to add to his resume as he seeks a big league job next time. A star during his playing days, Vizquel appears on the Hall of Fame ballot for the first time this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White Sox have hired Omar Vizquel as their new manager for Class A Winston-Salem. Last season Vizquel served as the first base coach for the Tigers. He interviewed for the teams manager&#8217;s job after Brad Ausmus was fired but lost out on the gig to former Twins manager Ron Gardenhire. The #WhiteSox have named [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[181,503,501,1016],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-10920","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-chicago-white-sox","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-omar-vizquel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10920","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=10920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10922,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10920\/revisions\/10922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10920"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}