{"id":11817,"date":"2019-11-27T16:21:35","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T02:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=11817"},"modified":"2019-11-27T21:21:37","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T02:21:37","slug":"greg-bird-yolmer-sanchez-become-free-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2019\/11\/27\/greg-bird-yolmer-sanchez-become-free-agents\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg Bird, Yolmer Sanchez become free agents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/11\/img_6540.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11816\" width=\"753\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/11\/img_6540.jpg 753w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/11\/img_6540-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/11\/img_6540-696x392.jpg 696w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/11\/img_6540-746x420.jpg 746w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 753px) 100vw, 753px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Even a gold glove was not enough to keep Yolmer Sanchez in Chicago as the White Sox designated him for assignment last week. On Tuesday Sanche became a free agent.<\/p>\n<p>The White Sox had played Sanchez throughout the infield during their rebuilding seasons but his bat again proved to be a liability in 2019 as he hit .252\/.318\/.321 across 149 games.<\/p>\n<p>There figure to be plenty of teams who have interest in Sanchez in free agency but expecting to see a salary near the $4.6 million he made last season is going to be a stretch.<\/p>\n<p>Greg Bird also became a free agent after he cleared waivers from the a Yankees.<\/p>\n<p>Bird has shown to have power in the pst but his ability to stay healthy has proven to be a concern which ultimately led to his departure from the Yankees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even a gold glove was not enough to keep Yolmer Sanchez in Chicago as the White Sox designated him for assignment last week. On Tuesday Sanche became a free agent. The White Sox had played Sanchez throughout the infield during their rebuilding seasons but his bat again proved to be a liability in 2019 as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[181,503,1157,501,38,1156],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-11817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-front","tag-greg-bird","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-yolmer-sanchez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11817","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=11817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11818,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11817\/revisions\/11818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11817"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}