{"id":10516,"date":"2015-12-15T22:23:37","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T03:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=10516"},"modified":"2015-12-15T22:23:37","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T03:23:37","slug":"jeff-francis-retires-from-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2015\/12\/15\/jeff-francis-retires-from-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Francis retires from baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10517\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/12\/jefffrancis.jpg\" alt=\"jefffrancis\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/12\/jefffrancis.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/12\/jefffrancis-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jeff Francis has retired from baseball after 11 seasons at the big league level.<\/p>\n<p>Francis, 34, is best remembered for his time as a member of the Rockies as the end of his career saw him bounce around.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a special place,&#8221; said Francis about his time in Colorado. &#8220;I spent the bulk of my time there. It was at times an up-and-down career, but to have the time in Denver playing in the World Series, and playing for a team that grew up together, that&#8217;s pretty satisfying.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Francis retires with a 72-82 record and a 4.97 career ERA. Much of his career was spent in hitter friendly Coors Field.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What I was able to do, what Aaron Cook did, what Jorge De La Rosa is doing and what Jason Jennings did before us, it&#8217;s hard to do. Not many have done it more than two years in a row, including me. I don&#8217;t know if there is an answer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"info\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Francis has retired from baseball after 11 seasons at the big league level. Francis, 34, is best remembered for his time as a member of the Rockies as the end of his career saw him bounce around. &#8220;It&#8217;s a special place,&#8221; said Francis about his time in Colorado. &#8220;I spent the bulk of my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[190,372,501,95],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-10516","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-colorado-rockies","9":"tag-jeff-francis","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-toronto-blue-jays"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10518,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10516\/revisions\/10518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10516"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}