{"id":209942,"date":"2010-01-21T19:01:36","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T00:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/?p=12182"},"modified":"2010-01-21T19:01:36","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T00:01:36","slug":"cubs-courting-gomes-as-fourth-outfielder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/209942","title":{"rendered":"Cubs courting Gomes as fourth outfielder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cubs are talking to free-agent outfielder Jonny Gomes, according to major-league sources.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old corner outfielder is a right-handed hitter who would serve as the team&#8217;s fourth outfielder, platooning with Kosuke Fukudome in right field. <span id=\"more-12182\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>He hit 20 home runs and drove in 51 runs in only 281 at-bats last year, and had a .307 average against left-handed pitchers.<\/p>\n<p>Gomes was non-tendered by Cincinnati last December and spent most of his career with Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n<p>The Cubs also are talking to Jermaine Dye and Xavier Nady, as previously reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:psullivan@tribune.com\" rel='nofollow'><em>By Paul Sullivan<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read the original article from <a title=\"Cubs courting Gomes as fourth outfielder\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagobreakingsports.com\/2010\/01\/cubs-courting-gomes-as-fourth-outfielder.html\"  rel='nofollow'>Tribune News Services<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/oF8KU1yTQXWbo4ueGz_-5sPQeR4\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/oF8KU1yTQXWbo4ueGz_-5sPQeR4\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/oF8KU1yTQXWbo4ueGz_-5sPQeR4\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/oF8KU1yTQXWbo4ueGz_-5sPQeR4\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=cynEJk_xzyY:LJiC4c6u6TU: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=cynEJk_xzyY:LJiC4c6u6TU: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=cynEJk_xzyY:LJiC4c6u6TU:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?i=cynEJk_xzyY:LJiC4c6u6TU:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/windycitynews\/~4\/cynEJk_xzyY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cubs are talking to free-agent outfielder Jonny Gomes, according to major-league sources. The 29-year-old corner outfielder is a right-handed hitter who would serve as the team&#8217;s fourth outfielder, platooning with Kosuke Fukudome in right field. He hit 20 home runs and drove in 51 runs in only 281 at-bats last year, and had a [&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-209942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209942","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=209942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}