{"id":11121,"date":"2018-02-18T17:55:47","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T22:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=11121"},"modified":"2018-02-18T17:55:47","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T22:55:47","slug":"covey-off-white-sox-40-man-roster-garcia-has-hand-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2018\/02\/18\/covey-off-white-sox-40-man-roster-garcia-has-hand-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Covey off White Sox 40-man roster, Garcia has hand injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11122\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2018\/02\/dylancovey.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2018\/02\/dylancovey.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2018\/02\/dylancovey-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The White Sox have outrighted right hander Dylan Covey off their 40-man roster sending the former Rule 5 pick to Triple-A Charlotte.<\/p>\n<p>Covey, 26, appeared in 18 games for the White Sox last season including 12 starts but was 0-7 with a 7.71 ERA and a 1.67 WHIP to go with a 41\/34 K\/BB ratio.<\/p>\n<p>Getting Covey off their 40-man roster was something the White Sox could not due last season since they had claimed him in the Rule 5 draft from the Athletics in December of 2016.<\/p>\n<p>A former first round pick of the Brewers, Covey opted for college and ended up being drafted by the Athletics in the fourth round in 2013.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Garcia dealing with hand injury<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Willy Garcia injured his hand during winter ball in the Dominican Republic and apparently that is an issue that is still giving the 25-year-old trouble.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Wily Garcia limited with hand Issue which developed during winter ball, Leury Garcia expected in camp tomorrow Renteria said<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Daryl Van Schouwen (@CST_soxvan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CST_soxvan\/status\/965327310617366528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 18, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Garcia dealt with a concussion and hamstring issues down the stretch for the White Sox. He appeared in 44 games hitting .238\/.305\/.400 with two home runs and 12 RBI.<\/p>\n<p>With the ability to play all three outfield positions there is a good chance that Garcia sees at-bats this season but he&#8217;s not an option currently as an everyday player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White Sox have outrighted right hander Dylan Covey off their 40-man roster sending the former Rule 5 pick to Triple-A Charlotte. Covey, 26, appeared in 18 games for the White Sox last season including 12 starts but was 0-7 with a 7.71 ERA and a 1.67 WHIP to go with a 41\/34 K\/BB ratio. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[181,1047,501,1048],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-11121","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-dylan-covey","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-willy-garcia"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11121","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=11121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11123,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11121\/revisions\/11123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11121"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}