{"id":5907,"date":"2014-01-11T17:48:34","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T22:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5907"},"modified":"2014-01-11T17:48:34","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T22:48:34","slug":"jason-bay-unofficially-retiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/01\/11\/jason-bay-unofficially-retiring\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Bay unofficially retiring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/jasonbay.jpg\" alt=\"jasonbay\" width=\"594\" height=\"424\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5908\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/jasonbay.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/jasonbay-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nJason Bay has not filed any paperwork with MLB but the outfielder says it&#8217;s unlikely that he will play in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Bay, 35, appeared in 68 games with Seattle last season finishing with a .204\/.298\/.393 line, 11 home runs and 20 RBI.<\/p>\n<p>The latest report came from Shi Davidi who says that Bay is unlikely to accept a previous contract from a Japanese team. No MLB teams are known to have contacted Bay.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Bay was intrigued by offer to play in Japan, but ultimately feels it&#39;s time for him to focus on family. Congrats to a Canadian great<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Shi Davidi (@ShiDavidi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShiDavidi\/statuses\/422112865416675329\">January 11, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nIf this is the end of the road for Bay he will end his career with a .266\/.\/360\/.481 line, 222 home runs and 754 RBI. He was a three time All-Star winning the NL Rookie of the Year award in 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Bay has not filed any paperwork with MLB but the outfielder says it&#8217;s unlikely that he will play in 2014. Bay, 35, appeared in 68 games with Seattle last season finishing with a .204\/.298\/.393 line, 11 home runs and 20 RBI. The latest report came from Shi Davidi who says that Bay is unlikely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[75,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-jason-bay","9":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5907","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=5907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5907"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}