{"id":8357,"date":"2014-06-28T06:01:17","date_gmt":"2014-06-28T10:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8357"},"modified":"2014-06-28T06:01:17","modified_gmt":"2014-06-28T10:01:17","slug":"white-sox-making-change-at-closer-belisario-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/06\/28\/white-sox-making-change-at-closer-belisario-out\/","title":{"rendered":"White Sox making change at closer, Belisario out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/06\/jakepetricka.jpg\" alt=\"jakepetricka\" width=\"594\" height=\"389\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8358\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/06\/jakepetricka.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/06\/jakepetricka-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Chicago White Sox are making a change at the closer position.<\/p>\n<p>Ronald Belisaro is being removed from the role following another poor performance on Friday night. Belisaro converted 8-of-12 save chances owning a 5.54 ERA and a 1.34 WHIP o the season. In 37 1\/3 innings of work he holds a 28\/8 K\/BB ratio.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Belisario is done as closer. Ventura said TBD. Petricka in mix, RV will discuss with Cooper.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Daryl Van Schouwen (@CST_soxvan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CST_soxvan\/statuses\/482711875235631104\">June 28, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>White Sox manager Robin Ventura made the announcement of Belisaro&#8217;s removal from the closers role following Friday&#8217;s game in which the 31-year-old allowed two runs (one earned) on three hits while recording only one out. Fortunately for the White So Jake Petricka was able to covert the save against Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Javy Guerra and Zach Putnam are also options to see save chances for the White Sox in the near future. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago White Sox are making a change at the closer position. Ronald Belisaro is being removed from the role following another poor performance on Friday night. Belisaro converted 8-of-12 save chances owning a 5.54 ERA and a 1.34 WHIP o the season. In 37 1\/3 innings of work he holds a 28\/8 K\/BB ratio. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,797,501,541],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-8357","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-jake-petricka","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-ronald-belisario"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8357","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=8357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8359,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8357\/revisions\/8359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8357"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}