{"id":16746,"date":"2014-03-26T17:37:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T17:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/white-soxs-beckham-likely-landing-on-dl\/"},"modified":"2014-03-26T17:37:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T17:37:00","slug":"white-soxs-beckham-likely-landing-on-dl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/white-soxs-beckham-likely-landing-on-dl\/","title":{"rendered":"White Sox&#8217;s Beckham likely landing on DL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Glendale, AZ (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Chicago White Sox manager Robin Ventura told reporters Wednesday that second baseman Gordon Beckham will probably begin the season on the disabled list as he recovers from a strained oblique.<\/p>\n<p>Beckham has not played in a spring game since Mar. 14 due to the injury. The White Sox can backdate the DL stint to Mar. 21 and are hopeful he&#8217;ll be ready to return for the team&#8217;s fifth game of the season on Apr. 5.<\/p>\n<p>Rookie Marcus Semien, who&#8217;s batting .348 this spring, and Leury Garcia are expected to handle second-base duties for Chicago&#8217;s opening series against Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>Beckham started 100 games at second base for the White Sox last season and hit .267 with five home runs and 24 RBI.<\/p>\n<p>Infielder Jeff Keppinger, sidelined for much of the spring due to shoulder soreness related to offseason surgery, is also likely to start the season on the DL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glendale, AZ (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Chicago White Sox manager Robin Ventura told reporters Wednesday that second baseman Gordon Beckham will probably begin the season on the disabled list as he recovers from a strained oblique. Beckham has not played in a spring game since Mar. 14 due to the injury. The White Sox can backdate the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[30,112,113],"class_list":["post-16746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}