{"id":2516,"date":"2013-05-14T19:29:11","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T23:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=2516"},"modified":"2013-05-14T19:31:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T23:31:21","slug":"mark-reynolds-to-see-majority-of-action-at-third","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/05\/14\/mark-reynolds-to-see-majority-of-action-at-third\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Reynolds to see majority of action at third"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2517\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2517\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2517\" alt=\"markreynolds\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/markreynolds.jpg\" width=\"675\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/markreynolds.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/markreynolds-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2517\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">credit: getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Terry Francona plans to start Mark Reynolds at third base with the demotion of Lonnie Chisenhall. Reynolds is a liability at third base but one the Indians are willing to live with as long as he continues to swing a hot bat.<\/p>\n<p>Reynolds has been one of the surprise story lines to open the 2013 season as he owns a .279\/.368\/.598 line and a major league best 11 home runs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Part of what makes this team so much fun to manage is the versatility we have,&#8221; said Francona, via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/tribe\/team\/1368569761-902-982\/francona-says-mark-reynolds-will.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Plain Dealer<\/a>. &#8220;Mark has gone from first to third to DH. And he&#8217;s done it willingly and not grudgingly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think he&#8217;ll get a lot of at bats there and I think he likes it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Known as a free swinger Reynolds has struck out 32.3% of his plate appearances at the major league level but has lowered that number to just 25.7% this season.<\/p>\n<p>By moving Reynolds to third base the Indians open up additional playing time for Jason Giambi and Ryan Raburn at designated hitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terry Francona plans to start Mark Reynolds at third base with the demotion of Lonnie Chisenhall. Reynolds is a liability at third base but one the Indians are willing to live with as long as he continues to swing a hot bat. Reynolds has been one of the surprise story lines to open the 2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[156,326],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-2516","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-cleveland-indians","9":"tag-mark-reynolds"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516","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=2516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2516"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}