{"id":456,"date":"2012-11-08T19:04:56","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T00:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=456"},"modified":"2012-11-08T19:04:56","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T00:04:56","slug":"mets-seeking-to-trade-r-a-dickey-as-contract-talks-stall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2012\/11\/08\/mets-seeking-to-trade-r-a-dickey-as-contract-talks-stall\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets seeking to trade R.A. Dickey as contract talks stall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-457\" title=\"radickey\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/11\/radickey.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/11\/radickey.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/11\/radickey-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>R.A. Dickey had been talking with the New York Mets about a contract extension. Now it appears the New York Mets are fielding offers for the 38-year-old\u00a0 knuckleballer.<\/p>\n<p>It was assumed that the Mets would make an extension with Dickey a top priority this off season. Dickey is under contract for the 2013 season afor just $5 million but wants a multi-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>However, today Fox Sports&#8217; Ken Rosenthal <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ken_Rosenthal\/status\/266592723119788032\">said<\/a> that the Mets are &#8220;showing little interest in signing Dickey to extension, discussing him in trades.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dickey had another strong season with the Mets in 2012. He posted a 2.73 ERA, 1.05 WHIp and a 230\/54 K\/BB ratio in 233 2\/3 innings. The strike out and innings pitched numbers were tops in the NL. Dickey was selected to his first all star team this season.<\/p>\n<p>Since joining the Mets Dickey owns a 39-28 record and a 2.95 ERA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R.A. Dickey had been talking with the New York Mets about a contract extension. Now it appears the New York Mets are fielding offers for the 38-year-old\u00a0 knuckleballer. It was assumed that the Mets would make an extension with Dickey a top priority this off season. Dickey is under contract for the 2013 season afor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[76,32],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-new-york-mets","9":"tag-ra-dickey"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456","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=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}