{"id":674767,"date":"2026-04-13T12:36:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T12:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/674767\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T12:36:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T12:36:37","slug":"mlb-news-ichiro-suzuki-statue-mason-miller-phil-garner-jo-adell-white-sox-pope-promo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/674767\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB News: Ichiro Suzuki statue, Mason Miller, Phil Garner, Jo Adell, White Sox Pope promo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It feels unbelievable to say, but we are already almost halfway through April, and what\u2019s more, we are almost three weeks into this season. We\u2019ve been seeing a lot of injuries, which is nothing new, and also still the case this week. We\u2019re also seeing baseball teams having a very short leash with struggling players.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In our news bites today, we look at some big stories from over the weekend. First, the unveiling of an Ichiro Suzuki statue in Seattle went terribly wrong. Then Shohei Ohtani continues to build his legacy, of course. And in an \u201cit can only happen in baseball\u201d story, the White Sox announced they would be honoring their most famous fan with a Pope-themed promo night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">All that and more below, so let\u2019s get right into it!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">And tomorrow will be a better day than today, Buster. Make it so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It feels unbelievable to say, but we are already almost halfway through April, and what\u2019s more, we are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2379],"tags":[5,138,49,2561,4,3537,396,2562],"class_list":{"0":"post-674767","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-white-sox","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-white-sox","11":"tag-chicagowhitesox","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-mlb-news","14":"tag-white-sox","15":"tag-whitesox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116397434382371061","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674767","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=674767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}