{"id":530,"date":"2012-11-16T17:13:42","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T22:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=530"},"modified":"2012-11-16T17:13:42","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T22:13:42","slug":"lance-berkman-hints-he-could-continue-playing-career-with-astros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2012\/11\/16\/lance-berkman-hints-he-could-continue-playing-career-with-astros\/","title":{"rendered":"Lance Berkman hints he could continue playing career with Astros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www4.pictures.zimbio.com\/gi\/Lance+Berkman+2011+World+Series+Game+7+Texas+OaY6iTZ67qNl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lance Berkman may play in 2013. The 36-year-old met with Jim Crane last week and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxhouston.com\/story\/20120147\/2012\/11\/16\/astros-owner-jim-crane-meets-with-lance-berkman\">according<\/a> to the new owner of the Houston Astros has &#8220;expressed some interest in maybe working a deal out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Berkman is still rehabbing from knee surgery so lets not place the cart before the horse here. Further, if a contending team was interested in Berkman they could lure him with the possibility of another World Series ring.<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;We haven&#8217;t gotten to that (discuss contract). I think his knee is still up in the air. So we got to get that all worked out. It was a get-acquainted meeting, really&#8221;\u00a0 Crane said. &#8220;I think he has an interest.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;All of that will depend on his knee and probably the price, if he get any other offers or what. If all that works out, and there are a lot of ifs there, possibly he could do some DHing (designated hitter) for us.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Berkman spent parts of 12 seasons with the Astors. Last season he appeared in 32 games with the St. Louis Cardinals before injuring his knee.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Astros move to the American League West in 2013 as inter-league play expands to last all season long.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lance Berkman may play in 2013. The 36-year-old met with Jim Crane last week and according to the new owner of the Houston Astros has &#8220;expressed some interest in maybe working a deal out.&#8221; Berkman is still rehabbing from knee surgery so lets not place the cart before the horse here. Further, if a contending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[93,60],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-houston-astros","8":"tag-lance-berkman"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530","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=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}