{"id":10587,"date":"2016-01-07T19:47:13","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T00:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=10587"},"modified":"2016-01-07T19:47:13","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T00:47:13","slug":"ken-griffey-jr-to-wear-mariners-hat-mike-piazza-chooses-mets-for-hall-plaques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2016\/01\/07\/ken-griffey-jr-to-wear-mariners-hat-mike-piazza-chooses-mets-for-hall-plaques\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Griffey Jr to wear Mariners hat, Mike Piazza chooses Mets for hall plaques"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10588\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2016\/01\/griffeypiazza-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"griffeypiazza\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2016\/01\/griffeypiazza-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2016\/01\/griffeypiazza-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2016\/01\/griffeypiazza-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2016\/01\/griffeypiazza.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The decision was simple. Ken Griffey Jr. will wear a Mariners hat on his Hall of Fame plaque. After being drafted by the Mariners, Griffey Jr. spent the first 11 seasons of his Major league career in Seattle before a trade sent him to the Reds.<\/p>\n<p>Griffey also had a brief stint with the White Sox before retiring after a year-plus run with the Mariners. He will enter the hall as the first player with a Mariners logo on his hat.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Piazza on the other hand will enter the hall of fame as a member of the Mets. He joins Tom Seaver as the only players to enter the hall as a member of the Mets.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-body\">\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately we do have to choose one,&#8221; Piazza said. &#8220;For me, I always sort of enjoyed reconnecting here in New York.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<footer class=\"article-footer\">\n<div class=\"sponsored-links\"><\/div>\n<\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decision was simple. Ken Griffey Jr. will wear a Mariners hat on his Hall of Fame plaque. After being drafted by the Mariners, Griffey Jr. spent the first 11 seasons of his Major league career in Seattle before a trade sent him to the Reds. Griffey also had a brief stint with the White [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-10587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10587","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=10587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10589,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10587\/revisions\/10589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10587"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}