{"id":1390,"date":"2013-02-14T20:31:15","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T01:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=1390"},"modified":"2013-02-14T20:31:15","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T01:31:15","slug":"white-sox-to-try-brent-morel-around-infield-in-spring-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/02\/14\/white-sox-to-try-brent-morel-around-infield-in-spring-training\/","title":{"rendered":"White Sox to try Brent Morel around infield in Spring Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1391 aligncenter\" alt=\"brentmorel\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/02\/brentmorel.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/02\/brentmorel.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/02\/brentmorel-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Robin Ventura plans to give Brent Morel repetitions around the infield in spring training. Morel has previously played third base for the White Sox but the signing of Jeff Keppinger has moved him to the bench.<\/p>\n<p>Morel played in just 35 games last season while dealing with a back injury but he is healthy now and Ventura sees a different player.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA slight injury, it just makes guys look different in the way they move around and for him he\u2019s swinging the bat free and easy,\u201d Ventura said. \u201cIt\u2019s different when you get some spikes on and when you\u2019re running around and doing stuff. His [injury situation] is more of longevity of being able to stay and play nice and loose.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In parts of three big league seasons Morel is a career .230\/.273\/.338 hitter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robin Ventura plans to give Brent Morel repetitions around the infield in spring training. Morel has previously played third base for the White Sox but the signing of Jeff Keppinger has moved him to the bench. Morel played in just 35 games last season while dealing with a back injury but he is healthy now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[203],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-1390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-brent-morel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390","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=1390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1390"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}