{"id":6146,"date":"2014-01-29T23:03:38","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T04:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6146"},"modified":"2014-01-29T23:03:38","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T04:03:38","slug":"report-dodgers-trying-to-convince-michael-young-to-play-second-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/01\/29\/report-dodgers-trying-to-convince-michael-young-to-play-second-base\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Dodgers trying to convince Michael Young to play second base"},"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 \/>\nThe Los Angeles Dodgers remain interested in Michael Young.<\/p>\n<p>In October the Dodgers signed Alexander Guerrero to a four-year deal worth $28 million but the team has concerns about his fielding ability reports <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/blog\/los-angeles\/dodger-report\/post\/_\/id\/8586\/five-questions-about-the-dodgers-infield\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">ESPN Los Angeles<\/a>. Los Angeles is reportedly concerned enough with Guerrero&#8217;s glove that they could start him in the minors this season.<\/p>\n<p>The team is expected to hold a tryout for the second base job this spring, and if Young does not sign could use Chone Figgins there.<\/p>\n<p>Young appeared in 21 games for the Dodgers last season. Overall in 2013 he played in 147 games hitting .279\/.335\/.395 with eight home runs and 46 RBI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Dodgers remain interested in Michael Young. In October the Dodgers signed Alexander Guerrero to a four-year deal worth $28 million but the team has concerns about his fielding ability reports ESPN Los Angeles. Los Angeles is reportedly concerned enough with Guerrero&#8217;s glove that they could start him in the minors this season. [&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":[135,129,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-6146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-michael-young","tag-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6146","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=6146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6146\/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=6146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6146"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}