{"id":6484,"date":"2014-02-22T16:27:55","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T21:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6484"},"modified":"2014-02-22T16:27:55","modified_gmt":"2014-02-22T21:27:55","slug":"tyler-flowers-enters-spring-as-top-catcher-for-white-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/02\/22\/tyler-flowers-enters-spring-as-top-catcher-for-white-sox\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyler Flowers enters spring as top catcher for White Sox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/tylerflowers.jpg\" alt=\"tylerflowers\" width=\"594\" height=\"429\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6485\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/tylerflowers.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/tylerflowers-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Chicago White Sox will enter spring training with Tyler Flowers atop the depth chart at catcher.<\/p>\n<p>White Sox manager Robin Ventura told MLB.com&#8217;s Scott Merkin that Flowers was the team&#8217;s No. 1 catcher but stopped short of saying the job was his to lose.<\/p>\n<p>this point. He&#8217;s always possessed impressive power, but struggled mightily to the tune of .195\/.247\/.355 with 10 homers and 24 RBI in 84 g<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Ventura said today that Flowers will be starting first Cactus League game. He didn&#39;t say it was Flowers&#39; job to lose, but he&#39;s No. 1 now<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Scott Merkin (@scottmerkin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/scottmerkin\/statuses\/437301621937025024\">February 22, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The White Sox have been banking on Flowers power swing for years. Last season he hit 10 home runs in 84 games but did little else finishing with a .195\/.247\/.355 line. <\/p>\n<p>Josh Phegley is currently the No. 2 catcher for the White Sox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago White Sox will enter spring training with Tyler Flowers atop the depth chart at catcher. White Sox manager Robin Ventura told MLB.com&#8217;s Scott Merkin that Flowers was the team&#8217;s No. 1 catcher but stopped short of saying the job was his to lose. this point. He&#8217;s always possessed impressive power, but struggled mightily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[181,264],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-6484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-tyler-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6484","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=6484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6484"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}