{"id":5922,"date":"2014-01-14T14:50:58","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T19:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5922"},"modified":"2014-01-14T14:50:58","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T19:50:58","slug":"report-michael-young-considering-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/01\/14\/report-michael-young-considering-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Michael Young considering retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/michaelyoung.jpg\" alt=\"michaelyoung\" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5610\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/michaelyoung.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/michaelyoung-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nMichael Young has been receiving interest as a free agent this winter but the 37-year-old could opt for retirement.<\/p>\n<p>Young finished the 2013 season with a .279\/.335\/.395 line with eight home runs and 46 RBI in 147 games split between the Philadelphia Phillies and Los Angeles Dodgers.<\/p>\n<p>Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports reports that Young has is considering the idea of staying at home with his family.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Sources: Michael Young has interest from four teams, decent offers, but is strongly considering retirement. MORE<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ken_Rosenthal\/statuses\/423159000600158209\">January 14, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Young is a seven time All-Star who has played a variety of positions in the infield. <\/p>\n<p>If this is the end of the road for Young he would finish his career with 14 seasons and a .300\/.346\/.441 line with 185 home runs and 1030 RBI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Young has been receiving interest as a free agent this winter but the 37-year-old could opt for retirement. Young finished the 2013 season with a .279\/.335\/.395 line with eight home runs and 46 RBI in 147 games split between the Philadelphia Phillies and Los Angeles Dodgers. Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports reports that Young [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,135,129,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-5922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-front","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-michael-young","tag-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5922","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=5922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5922"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}