{"id":10544,"date":"2015-12-22T12:59:04","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T17:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=10544"},"modified":"2015-12-22T12:59:04","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T17:59:04","slug":"white-sox-among-suitors-for-alex-gordon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2015\/12\/22\/white-sox-among-suitors-for-alex-gordon\/","title":{"rendered":"White Sox among suitors for Alex Gordon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10545\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/12\/alexgordon.jpg\" alt=\"alexgordon\" width=\"600\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/12\/alexgordon.jpg 600w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/12\/alexgordon-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alex Gordon has been a key part of the Kansas City Royals outfield as the team has gone from doormat to World Series championships. While Gordon and the team would welcome a continuation of their relationship they have struggled to find common ground on a new contract.<\/p>\n<p>Gordon is believed to be angling for a five-year deal worth an estimated $20 million a season.<\/p>\n<p>One team who does have interest in Gordon is the Chicago White Sox reports Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sources: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WhiteSox?src=hash\">#WhiteSox<\/a> showing interest in Alex Gordon, among others. Gordon appeals for several reasons: Knows division, LHH, defense, makeup.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ken_Rosenthal\/status\/679344296647131140\">December 22, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nThe 31-year-old would offer the team a Gold Glover in left field and a capable bat. Rosenthal believes the team would try and trade Adam LaRoche or Melky Cabrera if they are able to land Gordon.<\/p>\n<p>Of course the team should be trying to trade LaRoche regardless as he has offered little to nothing since arriving. Any trade of LaRoche would be a salary dump with the White Sox being left to pay the majority of his deal or an equally bad contract coming back in return.<\/p>\n<p>In 104 games last season Gordon hit .271\/.377\/.432 with 13 home runs and 48 RBI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Gordon has been a key part of the Kansas City Royals outfield as the team has gone from doormat to World Series championships. While Gordon and the team would welcome a continuation of their relationship they have struggled to find common ground on a new contract. Gordon is believed to be angling for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[914,181,503,137,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-10544","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-alex-gordon","9":"tag-chicago-white-sox","10":"tag-front","11":"tag-kansas-city-royals","12":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10546,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10544\/revisions\/10546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10544"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}