{"id":10562,"date":"2016-01-01T14:13:06","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T19:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=10562"},"modified":"2016-01-01T14:13:06","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T19:13:06","slug":"clay-rapada-to-retire-at-end-of-world-baseball-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2016\/01\/01\/clay-rapada-to-retire-at-end-of-world-baseball-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"Clay Rapada to retire at end of World Baseball Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10563\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2016\/01\/clayrapada.jpg\" alt=\"clayrapada\" width=\"594\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2016\/01\/clayrapada.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2016\/01\/clayrapada-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Relief pitcher Clay Rapada will retire after the World Baseball Classic. The 35-year-old has not pitched at the big league level since 2013.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Clay Rapada (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pada5something\">@pada5something<\/a>) will retire after pitching for Filipino national team in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WBC?src=hash\">#WBC<\/a> to accept a scouting\/coaching job in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLB\">@MLB<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jon Morosi (@jonmorosi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonmorosi\/status\/682967994247581696\">January 1, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Last year Rapada spent the entire year at Triple-A compiling a 2.84 in 46 relief appearances.\u00a0The left hander&#8217;s best season came in 2012 as a member of the Yankees when he pitched in 70 games posting a 2.82 ERA and a 1.20 WHIP in 38 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Rapada apparently has a MLB job lined up somewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relief pitcher Clay Rapada will retire after the World Baseball Classic. The 35-year-old has not pitched at the big league level since 2013. Clay Rapada (@pada5something) will retire after pitching for Filipino national team in #WBC to accept a scouting\/coaching job in @MLB. \u2014 Jon Morosi (@jonmorosi) January 1, 2016 Last year Rapada spent the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[788,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-10562","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-clay-rapada","9":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10562","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=10562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10564,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10562\/revisions\/10564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10562"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}