{"id":8910,"date":"2014-08-21T18:16:34","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T22:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8910"},"modified":"2014-08-21T18:16:34","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T22:16:34","slug":"angels-pick-up-gordon-beckham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/08\/21\/angels-pick-up-gordon-beckham\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels pick up Gordon Beckham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/08\/gordonbeckham.jpg\" alt=\"gordonbeckham\" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8911\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/08\/gordonbeckham.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/08\/gordonbeckham-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nGordon Beckham had put together another disappointing season for the Chicago White Sox this year. On Thursday the team sent him to the Los Angles Angels for a player to be named later or cash.<\/p>\n<p>The White Sox will take whatever they can get for Beckham who has failed to live up to expectations following a strong rookie campaign in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>This season Beckham was hitting a mere .221\/.263\/.336 with seven home runs and 36 RBI and was not assured of returning to the White Sox next season.<\/p>\n<p>Beckham will play behind Howie Kendrick and David Freese on the Angels who simply want to see if there is anything in his bat.<\/p>\n<p>The White Sox are expected to promote Marcus Semien for an extended look at second base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gordon Beckham had put together another disappointing season for the Chicago White Sox this year. On Thursday the team sent him to the Los Angles Angels for a player to be named later or cash. The White Sox will take whatever they can get for Beckham who has failed to live up to expectations following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[181,503,291,114,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-8910","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-front","10":"tag-gordon-beckham","11":"tag-los-angeles-angels","12":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8910","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=8910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8912,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8910\/revisions\/8912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8910"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}