{"id":7955,"date":"2014-05-26T13:50:28","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T17:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=7955"},"modified":"2014-05-26T13:51:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T17:51:00","slug":"jose-abreu-hits-and-fields-grounders-return-slated-for-june-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/05\/26\/jose-abreu-hits-and-fields-grounders-return-slated-for-june-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Jose Abreu hits and fields grounders, return slated for June 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/05\/joseabreu.jpg\" alt=\"joseabreu\" width=\"594\" height=\"403\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7803\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/05\/joseabreu.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/05\/joseabreu-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nChicago White Sox first baseman Jose Abreu took ground balls and hit off a a tee on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Abreu had been wearing a walking boot prior to Monday&#8217;s practice but White Sox manager Robin Ventura says that the Cuban&#8217;s ankle has gotten better with the time off.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s progressing, it&#8217;s getting better,&#8221; Ventura said. &#8220;I know he&#8217;s not happy sitting on the bench. Even if he had been in a cast, he still wouldn&#8217;t be happy (just because) he&#8217;s out of it. It&#8217;s getting better though. The timeline right now is still the same.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe src='http:\/\/m.mlb.com\/shared\/video\/embed\/embed.html?content_id=32877383&#038;topic_id=47079118&#038;width=600&#038;height=336&#038;property=mlb' width='600' height='336' frameborder='0'>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old rookie had been dealing with a nagging ankle injury which forced him to the disabled list. He took 25 ground balls before taking part in a game of catch. He is on track to return when he becomes eligible, June 2.<\/p>\n<p>In 44 games before going on the DL Abreu was hitting .260\/.312\/.595 with 15 home runs and 42 RBI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago White Sox first baseman Jose Abreu took ground balls and hit off a a tee on Monday morning. Abreu had been wearing a walking boot prior to Monday&#8217;s practice but White Sox manager Robin Ventura says that the Cuban&#8217;s ankle has gotten better with the time off. &#8220;It&#8217;s progressing, it&#8217;s getting better,&#8221; Ventura said. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[181,442,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-7955","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-jose-abreu","10":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7955","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=7955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7956,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7955\/revisions\/7956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7955"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}