{"id":463127,"date":"2025-12-06T01:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T01:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/463127\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T01:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T01:34:11","slug":"spencer-jones-still-waiting-for-yankees-chance-thats-only-a-matter-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/463127\/","title":{"rendered":"Spencer Jones still waiting for Yankees chance that&#8217;s only a &#8216;matter of time&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Machado has known Spencer Jones since well before he became a top prospect and even before he coached him as a freshman at La Costa Canyon High School in Carlsbad, Calif.<\/p>\n<p>Machado\u2019s son, Austin, is a minor leaguer in the Braves system and played in Little League with Jones when they were 8 years old.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPretty soon, he was taller than all the coaches,\u2019\u2019 the coach said by phone recently. \u201cHe was always bigger and stronger than everyone else. He just had to put it all together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a process that\u2019s still going on, as the Yankees enter the heart of an offseason in which they <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/04\/sports\/yankees-still-trying-hard-for-cody-bellinger-as-stout-competition-emerges\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">are trying to keep Cody Bellinger<\/a> in pinstripes or perhaps add Kyle Tucker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Justin Machado has known Spencer Jones since well before he became a top prospect and even before he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,3967,4,62,185,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-463127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-minor-leagues","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york-yankees","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115670054735715405","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}