{"id":5539,"date":"2013-12-10T21:38:24","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T02:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5539"},"modified":"2013-12-10T21:38:24","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T02:38:24","slug":"mark-prior-retires-from-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/12\/10\/mark-prior-retires-from-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Prior retires from baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5540\" alt=\"Starting pitcher Mark Prior\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/markprior.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/markprior.jpg 640w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/markprior-300x187.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/markprior-85x54.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mark Prior has retired from baseball.<\/p>\n<p>Once a star pitcher of the Chicago Cubs, Prior had not pitched in the major leagues since 2006 even as he attempted a comeback each season. Last year it was the Cincinnati Reds who gave Prior a chance, they let him go in June.<\/p>\n<p>Prior is expected to pursue a front office job, possibility with San Diego. He finishes his career\u00a0with a 42-29 record, a 3.51 ERA and 757 strikeouts.<\/p>\n<p>There are numerous words that could be used to describe Prior. You&#8217;re welcome to share yours below in our comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Prior has retired from baseball. Once a star pitcher of the Chicago Cubs, Prior had not pitched in the major leagues since 2006 even as he attempted a comeback each season. Last year it was the Cincinnati Reds who gave Prior a chance, they let him go in June. Prior is expected to pursue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[214],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-mark-prior"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5539","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=5539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5539"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}