{"id":5769,"date":"2013-12-23T11:00:54","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T16:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5769"},"modified":"2013-12-23T11:00:54","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T16:00:54","slug":"thome-still-not-retired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/12\/23\/thome-still-not-retired\/","title":{"rendered":"Thome still not retired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/jimthome.jpg\" alt=\"jimthome\" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-779\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/jimthome.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/jimthome-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nStill wondering about Jim Thome? Well we can pass along that the former All-Star is not retired.<\/p>\n<p>Thome failed to land a contract last offseason and later accepted a role in the front office of the Chicago White Sox. Lost in all that was that Thome never retired.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unlikely that Thome, now 43, will ever play on a major league field again but&#8230;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Jim Thome said today on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23MLBNHotStove&amp;src=hash\">#MLBNHotStove<\/a> that he is not officially retired. Did not rule out possibility of comeback, unlikely as it might be.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ken_Rosenthal\/statuses\/415135699047030785\">December 23, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Oh who are we kidding. We&#8217;d love to see Thome come back. For those who like to read stats here are Thome&#8217;s: In a 22 year career Thome has a .276\/.402\/.554 line with 612 home runs and 1699 RBI. He was also a five time All-Star.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still wondering about Jim Thome? Well we can pass along that the former All-Star is not retired. Thome failed to land a contract last offseason and later accepted a role in the front office of the Chicago White Sox. Lost in all that was that Thome never retired. It&#8217;s unlikely that Thome, now 43, will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[132,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-5769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-jim-thome","tag-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5769","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=5769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5769"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}