{"id":10884,"date":"2017-11-13T12:14:44","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T17:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=10884"},"modified":"2017-11-13T12:14:44","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T17:14:44","slug":"carlos-beltran-retires-from-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2017\/11\/13\/carlos-beltran-retires-from-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Beltran retires from baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10885\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2017\/11\/carlosbeltran.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2017\/11\/carlosbeltran.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2017\/11\/carlosbeltran-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sooner or later it was going to happen. Carlos Beltran is retiring from baseball.<\/p>\n<p>Beltran served primarily as a DH for the Astros this year, earning himself a World Series ring to finish what should be a hall of fame career.\u00a0The 40-year-old Beltran had the worst season of his career for the Astros last year finishing with a .231\/.283\/.383 line with 14 home runs across 129 games.<\/p>\n<p>The official announcement came from Beltran on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theplayerstribune.com\/carlos-beltran-astros-retirement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Players Tribune<\/a> and is\u00a0a pretty good read.<\/p>\n<p>Beltran finishes his big league career with 2725 hits to go with a .279\/.350\/.486 line with 435 career home runs and 1,587 RBI. He was a 9-time All-Star, 3-time Gold Glove winner and 2 time Silver Slugger recepient. He was the 1999 AL Rookie of the Year and finished as high as fourth in the MVP voting in 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sooner or later it was going to happen. Carlos Beltran is retiring from baseball. Beltran served primarily as a DH for the Astros this year, earning himself a World Series ring to finish what should be a hall of fame career.\u00a0The 40-year-old Beltran had the worst season of his career for the Astros last year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[496,93,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-10884","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-carlos-beltran","9":"tag-houston-astros","10":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10884","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=10884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10886,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10884\/revisions\/10886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10884"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}