{"id":5300,"date":"2013-11-26T08:45:45","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T13:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5300"},"modified":"2013-11-26T08:45:45","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T13:45:45","slug":"mariners-seeking-to-add-outfielder-in-cruz-or-beltran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/11\/26\/mariners-seeking-to-add-outfielder-in-cruz-or-beltran\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariners seeking to add outfielder in Cruz or Beltran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_5301\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5301\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/11\/carlosbeltran.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5301\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/11\/carlosbeltran.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/11\/carlosbeltran-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5301\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Seattle Mariners are hoping that a big free agent splash will return them to contention in the American League West.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Beltran and Nelson Cruz are both at the top of the Mariners list of available free agents reports Buster Onley.<\/p>\n<p>There is no shortage of teams interested in the pair of outfielders so the Mariners likely would have to overpay to land one.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Mariners are said to be targeting Nelson Cruz and Carlos Beltran. A major question looms: Will elite free agents seriously consider Seattle?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Buster Olney (@Buster_ESPN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Buster_ESPN\/statuses\/405277280512917504\">November 26, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Mariners finished 71-91 last season and have not had a winning record since 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle Mariners are hoping that a big free agent splash will return them to contention in the American League West. Carlos Beltran and Nelson Cruz are both at the top of the Mariners list of available free agents reports Buster Onley. There is no shortage of teams interested in the pair of outfielders so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[496,503,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5300","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-carlos-beltran","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5300","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=5300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5300"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}