{"id":5319,"date":"2013-11-26T21:41:59","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T02:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5319"},"modified":"2013-11-26T21:41:59","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T02:41:59","slug":"report-as-have-genuine-interest-in-nelson-cruz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/11\/26\/report-as-have-genuine-interest-in-nelson-cruz\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: A&#8217;s have genuine interest in Nelson Cruz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5320\" alt=\"nelsoncruz\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/11\/nelsoncruz.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/11\/nelsoncruz.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/11\/nelsoncruz-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Oakland Athletics remain interested in adding outfielder Nelson Cruz to their roster.<\/p>\n<p>As Susan Slusser of the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sfgate.com\/athletics\/2013\/11\/26\/offseaon-could-be-heating-up-for-as-nelson-cruz-a-possibility\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">San Francisco Chronicle<\/a> reports the A&#8217;s have &#8220;meaningful interest&#8221; in Cruz who reportedly is seeking a four-year deal worth $75 million.<\/p>\n<p>A match between the A&#8217;s and Cruz seems hard to believe as they currently have Yoenis Cespedes, Coco Crisp and Josh Reddick on the roster. Cruz&#8217;s salary demands also do not fit in well with the A&#8217;s projected payroll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oakland Athletics remain interested in adding outfielder Nelson Cruz to their roster. As Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle reports the A&#8217;s have &#8220;meaningful interest&#8221; in Cruz who reportedly is seeking a four-year deal worth $75 million. A match between the A&#8217;s and Cruz seems hard to believe as they currently have Yoenis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[523,272],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-nelson-cruz","9":"tag-oakland-athletics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5319","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=5319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5319"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}