{"id":2440,"date":"2011-01-02T21:12:30","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T03:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=2440"},"modified":"2011-01-03T12:47:08","modified_gmt":"2011-01-03T18:47:08","slug":"the-golden-sombreros-top-50-prospects-49-j-p-arencibia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2440","title":{"rendered":"The Golden Sombrero&#8217;s Top 50 Prospects: #49 &#8211; J.P. Arencibia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/jparencibia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2441\" title=\"jparencibia\" src=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/jparencibia-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"377\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/jparencibia-300x193.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/jparencibia.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 377px) 100vw, 377px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">#49 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/a\/arencjp01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">J.P. Arencibia<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 Toronto Blue Jays<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">C\/DH<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">DOB: 1\/5\/1986<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">ETA: 2011<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Arencibia has unusual power for a backstop, as evidenced by his 32 jacks and 69 hits for extra bases in only 412 AAA at-bats in 2010.\u00a0 While it is a safe bet that Arencibia never walks enough to become a truly elite hitter, that kind of thump can play well all over the field.\u00a0 It will have to because no one, including the Jays, thinks he can stick behind the plate as a primary catcher at the Major League level.\u00a0 Nevertheless, the Jays seem at least open to the idea of utilizing him primarily as a DH with the versatility to get behind the dish occasionally.\u00a0 In another organization he might have value as a corner infielder as well.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#49 J.P. Arencibia \u2013 Toronto Blue Jays C\/DH DOB: 1\/5\/1986 ETA: 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,1300,6,9,11,13,10,14,1616],"tags":[1617,3463,454],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2440"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2460,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440\/revisions\/2460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}