{"id":5731,"date":"2013-12-19T21:27:59","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T02:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5731"},"modified":"2013-12-19T21:28:21","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T02:28:21","slug":"report-orioles-deal-with-grant-balfour-in-danger-of-falling-though","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/12\/19\/report-orioles-deal-with-grant-balfour-in-danger-of-falling-though\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Orioles deal with Grant Balfour in danger of falling though"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_5631\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5631\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/grantbalfour.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"432\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5631\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/grantbalfour.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/grantbalfour-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5631\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nA deal between Grant Balfour and the Baltimore Orioles is in danger of falling though.<\/p>\n<p>Balfour, 35, and the Orioles were said to have reached agreement on a two-year deal worth $15 million but concerns about his right shoulder could kill the deal.<\/p>\n<p>The Orioles were hoping the addition of Balfour would make up for Jim Johnson who was traded to Oakland in a cost cutting move.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Acrdng to sources, issue w Balfour concerns right shoulder. Had surgery for rotator cuff\/labrum tear in Sept 2005. No shoulder probs since<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dan Connolly (@danconnollysun) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danconnollysun\/statuses\/413847518779174912\">December 20, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Balfour has not had any problems since undergoing surgery on his rotator cuff in 2005. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear if the concerns about Balfour&#8217;s shoulder will cause the Orioles to pull their offer or simply add some added protection for themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A deal between Grant Balfour and the Baltimore Orioles is in danger of falling though. Balfour, 35, and the Orioles were said to have reached agreement on a two-year deal worth $15 million but concerns about his right shoulder could kill the deal. The Orioles were hoping the addition of Balfour would make up for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[9,503,570,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-baltimore-orioles","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-grant-balfour","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5731","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=5731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5731"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}