{"id":6153,"date":"2014-01-30T20:15:06","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T01:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6153"},"modified":"2014-01-30T20:15:06","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T01:15:06","slug":"michael-young-retires-from-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/01\/30\/michael-young-retires-from-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Young retires from baseball"},"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 chosen to retire from baseball rather then return for the 2014 season.<\/p>\n<p>Young, 37, had drawn interest from a few teams and was reportedly <a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/01\/29\/report-dodgers-trying-to-convince-michael-young-to-play-second-base\/\" title=\"Report: Dodgers trying to convince Michael Young to play second base\">being courted<\/a> by the Los Angeles Dodgers to play second base.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Sources: Michael Young to retire. Had three good offers, including from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Dodgers&amp;src=hash\">#Dodgers<\/a>, but wanted to be with his family.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ken_Rosenthal\/statuses\/429010442455748608\">January 30, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Last season Young appeared in 147 games between the Philadelphia Phillies and Los Angeles Dodgers finishing with a .279\/.335\/.395 line with eight home runs and 46 RBI.  A seven-time All-Star, Young was the MVP of the 2006 All-Star game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Young has chosen to retire from baseball rather then return for the 2014 season. Young, 37, had drawn interest from a few teams and was reportedly being courted by the Los Angeles Dodgers to play second base. Sources: Michael Young to retire. Had three good offers, including from #Dodgers, but wanted to be with [&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":{"0":"post-6153","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","10":"tag-michael-young","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6153","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=6153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6153\/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=6153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6153"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}