{"id":4711,"date":"2013-09-18T21:15:31","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T01:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=4711"},"modified":"2013-09-18T21:15:31","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T01:15:31","slug":"mark-derosa-still-uncertain-of-2014-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/09\/18\/mark-derosa-still-uncertain-of-2014-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark DeRosa still uncertain of 2014 plans"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Toronto Blue Jays \u00a0hold a $750,000 option on infielder Mark DeRosa for 2014. While the Blue Jays are expected to pick up the option it all appears depended on whether or not the 38-year-old wants to return.<\/p>\n

“To be honest with you, this season has been fun, it’s been a grind. \u2026 But I really just want to get away for a minute, reestablish myself as a husband and father, and then kind of decide whether I want to keep going,” DeRosa said<\/a>. “Obviously, they have much bigger fish to fry than me, and I understand that. Once I hear what direction they kind of want to go with, then it’s a decision to be made by me and my wife.”<\/p>\n

DeRosa, a 16 year veteran,\u00a0is hitting .228\/.322\/.413 with seven home runs and 32 RBI in 81 games this season.<\/p>\n

“I feel like I’ve had to be a very selfish person in this profession. I feel you got to commit 100 percent if you’re going to hang around here and be great, or be good,” DeRosa said. “A lot of people have had to take a back seat to it. I never felt like that was fair, but I thought it was the best way to approach it for me. I think the nicest thing to do, when I am done playing, is be the least selfish person in my family. Let other people do what they’ve always wanted to do.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Toronto Blue Jays \u00a0hold a $750,000 option on infielder Mark DeRosa for 2014. While the Blue Jays are expected to pick up the option it all appears depended on whether or not the 38-year-old wants to return. “To be honest with you, this season has been fun, it’s been a grind. \u2026 But I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[474,95],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-4711","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-mark-derosa","9":"tag-toronto-blue-jays"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4711","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=4711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4711"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}