{"id":566,"date":"2012-11-21T19:03:08","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T00:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=566"},"modified":"2012-11-21T19:03:08","modified_gmt":"2012-11-22T00:03:08","slug":"scott-rolen-may-return-to-reds-in-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2012\/11\/21\/scott-rolen-may-return-to-reds-in-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Rolen may return to Reds in 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www2.pictures.zimbio.com\/gi\/Scott+Rolen+Cincinnati+Reds+v+Pittsburgh+Pirates+QHXL0TdeUGxl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"405\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Scott Rolen is unsure if he will attempt to continue his baseball career. Rolen, a 17 year veteran, will turn 38 in early April. Jason Stark <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jaysonst\/status\/271393218178973697\">reports<\/a> that Rolen has spoken to the Cincinnati Reds about 2013 but is\u00a0 &#8220;not ready to make a decision.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>If Rolen has interest in playing for the Reds again next season it would have to be as a bat off the bench as Todd Frazier has to be considered the regular Reds third basemen.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Last year Rolen appeared in 92 games hitting .245\/.318\/.398 with 8 home runs and 39 RBI. Rolen has also played for Philadelphia, St Louis and Toronto in his career.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Bob Nightengale of USA Today reported last month that Rolen was expected to retire.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Rolen is unsure if he will attempt to continue his baseball career. Rolen, a 17 year veteran, will turn 38 in early April. Jason Stark reports that Rolen has spoken to the Cincinnati Reds about 2013 but is\u00a0 &#8220;not ready to make a decision.&#8221; If Rolen has interest in playing for the Reds again [&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":[99],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-scott-rolen"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566","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=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}