{"id":10939,"date":"2017-12-07T16:35:53","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T21:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=10939"},"modified":"2017-12-07T16:35:53","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T21:35:53","slug":"former-cardinals-world-series-hero-anthony-reyes-fighting-california-wildfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2017\/12\/07\/former-cardinals-world-series-hero-anthony-reyes-fighting-california-wildfire\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Cardinals World Series hero Anthony Reyes fighting California wildfire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2017\/12\/anthonyreyes-1024x687.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"416\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10940\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2017\/12\/anthonyreyes-1024x687.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2017\/12\/anthonyreyes-300x201.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2017\/12\/anthonyreyes-768x515.jpg 768w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2017\/12\/anthonyreyes.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Former Cardinals pitcher Anthony Reyes is reportedly on the front lines fighting the Thomas wildfire in California.<\/p>\n<p>Reyes, 36,\u00a0spent three and a half seasons with the Cardinals (2005-2008) before being traded to the Indians midway though the 2008 season. He would spend the 2009 season with the Indians at the big league level before spending time in the minors. Reyes later signed a minor league deal with the Padres but was out of baseball by the end of the 2012 season.<\/p>\n<p>After leaving the field he opted to follow in the footsteps of his father and become a firefighter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Please keep former <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/STLCards?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#STLCards<\/a> starter Anthony Reyes in your thoughts as he is on the front lines fighting the California wildfires. Was expecting 70mph gusts on his shift tonight.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cardinals Magazine (@CardsMagazine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CardsMagazine\/status\/938590717898821632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 7, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">2006 WS hero Anthony Reyes is officially an LA County firefighter! Here he is with his fam at weekend grad ceremony. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/congrats?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#congrats<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/STLCards?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#STLCards<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IS9dT92QET\">pic.twitter.com\/IS9dT92QET<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Cardinals Magazine (@CardsMagazine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CardsMagazine\/status\/846149000927567872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 26, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Reyes was 13-26 with a 5.12 ERA during his big league career. He never really seemed to live up to the expectations of fans with the exception of Game 1 of the 2006 World Series where he out-dueled Justin Verlander for a win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Cardinals pitcher Anthony Reyes is reportedly on the front lines fighting the Thomas wildfire in California. Reyes, 36,\u00a0spent three and a half seasons with the Cardinals (2005-2008) before being traded to the Indians midway though the 2008 season. He would spend the 2009 season with the Indians at the big league level before spending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[1018,503,501,29],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-10939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-anthony-reyes","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-st-louis-cardinals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10939","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=10939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10942,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10939\/revisions\/10942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10939"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}