{"id":5507,"date":"2013-12-09T11:29:05","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T16:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5507"},"modified":"2013-12-09T11:29:05","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T16:29:05","slug":"teams-still-trying-to-pry-chris-sale-away-from-white-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/12\/09\/teams-still-trying-to-pry-chris-sale-away-from-white-sox\/","title":{"rendered":"Teams still trying to pry Chris Sale away from White Sox"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5508\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5508\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5508\" alt=\"chrissale\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/chrissale.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/chrissale.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/chrissale-300x183.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5508\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Chicago White Sox are not interested in trading left handed starting pitcher Chris Sale but that has not stopped teams from asking.<\/p>\n<p>Sale, 24, is coming off a stellar season for the White Sox which saw him compile a\u00a03.07 ERA and 1.07 WHIP in 214 1\/3 innings of work. Sale&#8217;s 226\/46 K\/BB ratio and four complete games have him on a short list of baseball&#8217;s best at pitcher right now.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Asked GM about Sale this morning. Said, &quot;Think teams are pushing Chicago to consider.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonmorosi\">@jonmorosi<\/a> said <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23WhiteSox&amp;src=hash\">#WhiteSox<\/a> will listen.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ken_Rosenthal\/statuses\/410035056099737601\">December 9, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Under team control though 2019 the White Sox only reason for trading Sale would be a package which included multiple prospects which could quicken their current rebuilding phase.<\/p>\n<p>However the White Sox have rarely shown a desire to rebuild with Kenny Williams and Rick Hahn. The current contract status of manager Robin Ventura also complicates the White Sox plans going forward.<\/p>\n<p>We do not see Sale going anywhere but stranger things have happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago White Sox are not interested in trading left handed starting pitcher Chris Sale but that has not stopped teams from asking. Sale, 24, is coming off a stellar season for the White Sox which saw him compile a\u00a03.07 ERA and 1.07 WHIP in 214 1\/3 innings of work. Sale&#8217;s 226\/46 K\/BB ratio and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[181,229],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-5507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-chris-sale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5507","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=5507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5507"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}