{"id":198286,"date":"2010-01-19T10:23:05","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T15:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/?p=11216"},"modified":"2010-01-19T10:23:05","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T15:23:05","slug":"little-competition-for-white-sox%e2%80%99s-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/198286","title":{"rendered":"Little competition for White Sox\u2019s Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11234\" title=\"Chicago+White+Sox+v+Randy+Williams\" src=\"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Chicago+White+Sox+v+Randy+Williams-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>Randy Williams started the 2009 season as a non-roster invitee, but finished the final two months with the White Sox despite a rocky August.<\/p>\n<p>It appears Williams is a lock as the second left-handed reliever to Matt Thornton unless non-roster invitee Erick Threets harnesses the wildness and overcomes the injuries that have stunted his development with the San Francisco Giants&#8217; and the Los Angeles Dodgers&#8217; organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Threets, 29, was throwing as hard as 97 mph in 1997 and made 10 appearances with the Giants in 2007-08. He struck out seven, but walked 12 in 12 1\/3 innings. <span id=\"more-11216\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Last year, Threets struck out 28 but walked 16 in 41 1\/3 innings for Triple-A Albuquerque. He could be one of pitching coach Don Cooper&#8217;s prime spring-training projects.<\/p>\n<p>Threets missed all of 2004 because of an arm injury.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:mgonzales@tribune.com\" rel='nofollow'><em>By Mark Gonzales<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read the original article from <a title=\"Little competition for White Sox's Williams\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagobreakingsports.com\/2010\/01\/little-competition-for-white-soxs-williams.html\"  rel='nofollow'>Tribune News Services<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/awLxs1r7x27Uj6INwfzbSa6ux6E\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/awLxs1r7x27Uj6INwfzbSa6ux6E\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/awLxs1r7x27Uj6INwfzbSa6ux6E\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/awLxs1r7x27Uj6INwfzbSa6ux6E\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=G0Vh6rKOsGM:xlp6360dzZA:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=G0Vh6rKOsGM:xlp6360dzZA:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=G0Vh6rKOsGM:xlp6360dzZA:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?i=G0Vh6rKOsGM:xlp6360dzZA:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/windycitynews\/~4\/G0Vh6rKOsGM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Randy Williams started the 2009 season as a non-roster invitee, but finished the final two months with the White Sox despite a rocky August. It appears Williams is a lock as the second left-handed reliever to Matt Thornton unless non-roster invitee Erick Threets harnesses the wildness and overcomes the injuries that have stunted his development [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}