{"id":1248,"date":"2013-01-27T16:08:27","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T21:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=1248"},"modified":"2013-01-27T16:08:27","modified_gmt":"2013-01-27T21:08:27","slug":"mattingly-courting-rolen-to-join-dodgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/01\/27\/mattingly-courting-rolen-to-join-dodgers\/","title":{"rendered":"Mattingly courting Rolen to join Dodgers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1249\" alt=\"scottrolen\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/01\/scottrolen.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/01\/scottrolen.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/01\/scottrolen-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles Dodgers manager Don Mattingly has spoken with free-agent third baseman Scott Rolen about joining the team for the 2013 season. Rolen has not made a decision about whether he will continue his playing career.<\/p>\n<p>The Cincinnati Reds, where he has played the last four seasons, are also waiting for an answer from Rolen in regards to 2013.<\/p>\n<p>At 38 it is unclear how much Rolen would benefit any team on the field. He has played just 157 games the last two seasons and underwent surgery on his left shoulder in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Rolen has taken a dip at the plate and in the field over the last two years.<\/p>\n<p>Mattingly sees Rolen as an option at third base in case Luis Cruz struggles as well as an option behind Adrian Gonzalez at first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Dodgers manager Don Mattingly has spoken with free-agent third baseman Scott Rolen about joining the team for the 2013 season. Rolen has not made a decision about whether he will continue his playing career. The Cincinnati Reds, where he has played the last four seasons, are also waiting for an answer from Rolen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[99],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-1248","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-scott-rolen"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248","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=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}