{"id":2321,"date":"2016-12-03T16:35:58","date_gmt":"2016-12-03T21:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonbaseball.com\/?p=2321"},"modified":"2016-12-03T16:35:58","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T21:35:58","slug":"white-sox-re-sign-avisail-garcia-brett-lawrie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2016\/12\/03\/white-sox-re-sign-avisail-garcia-brett-lawrie\/","title":{"rendered":"White Sox Re-sign Avisail Garcia, Brett Lawrie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As rumors continue to swirl around possible trades for starting pitcher <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/salech01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chris Sale<\/a><\/b>, the <b>Chicago White Sox<\/b> re-signed a couple of their own free agents on Friday. The White Sox agreed to terms on one-year deals for infielder <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/l\/lawribr01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brett Lawrie<\/a><\/b> and outfielder <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/garciav01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Avisail Garcia<\/a><\/b>. Lawrie signed for $3.5 million, while Garcia will return on a $3 million contract.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">White Sox agree on one-year, $3.5-million contract with 2B Brett Lawrie and a one-year, $3.0-million contract with OF Avisail Garcia.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Scott Merkin (@scottmerkin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/scottmerkin\/status\/804838596800815104\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 3, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><b>White Sox Re-sign Avisail Garcia, Brett Lawrie<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>The 26-year-old Lawrie missed large chunks of the 2016 season thanks to a variety of leg injuries, and did not perform well when he did take the field. In 94 games, he hit a forgettable .248 with 12 home runs, 36 RBI, and 35 runs scored. He went on the disables list on July 27, and did not play again after that.<\/p>\n<p>The six-year veteran played the best season of his career for the <b>Oakland A&#8217;s<\/b> in 2016, when he set personal bests in games played, at-bats, home runs, RBI, doubles, and slugging percentage. He also recorded his second best single-season batting average that year. Lawrie is a career .261 hitter, so there is a chance his performance will take an uptick next season if he can stay healthy.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia, 25, was once thought of as a key piece to the future of the White Sox. Garcia got his career off to a fantastic start with the <b>Detroit Tigers<\/b>, he first came to the Southside of Chicago as part of the three-team trade for <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/p\/peavyja01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jake Peavy<\/a><\/b> in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, however, Garcia has been nothing but a disappointment. He hasn&#8217;t hit better than .257 in his three full seasons with the White Sox, and hit just .245 in 120 games last season. If Garcia can&#8217;t figure things out in 2017, his time in Chicago will likely come to an end.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the White Sox decided to non-tender right-handed pitcher\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?results=smithbl01,smith-005bla&amp;search=Blake+Smith&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blake Smith<\/a><\/strong>. Smith pitched just 4.1 innings for Chicago, and allowed three runs.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/602251196\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/602251196?et=yJHxG_EbTTleu7oZHBMzlg&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=Wq0fv-qDZ6gmA9PC1nLUA9c5wurmnvsf5H4yQw2LJoE=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As rumors continue to swirl around possible trades for starting pitcher Chris Sale, the Chicago White Sox re-signed a couple of their own free agents on Friday. The White Sox agreed to terms on one-year deals for infielder Brett Lawrie and outfielder Avisail Garcia. Lawrie signed for $3.5 million, while Garcia will return on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":807,"featured_media":2322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,35],"tags":[587,68,758,69],"class_list":["post-2321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whitesox","category-news","tag-avisail-garcia","tag-baseball","tag-brett-lawrie","tag-mlb"],"modified_by":"Josh Greenberg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/807"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}