{"id":6190,"date":"2014-02-02T10:28:57","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T15:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6190"},"modified":"2014-02-02T10:28:57","modified_gmt":"2014-02-02T15:28:57","slug":"multiple-teams-still-in-on-nelson-cruz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/02\/02\/multiple-teams-still-in-on-nelson-cruz\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple teams still in on Nelson Cruz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/nelsoncruz.jpg\" alt=\"nelsoncruz\" width=\"594\" height=\"437\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6191\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/nelsoncruz.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/nelsoncruz-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nFour or five teams could end up signing outfielder Nelson Cruz to a multi-year contract according to one major league source.<\/p>\n<p>The Boston Globe&#8217;s Nick Cafardo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/sports\/2014\/02\/02\/sunball\/qbZR3rJEoLrIHTAQj1t7cO\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">said<\/a> that &#8220;momentum is starting to build in Cruz\u2019s favor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cruz has remained on the market in part because of his 50 game suspension for the use of performance enhancing drugs.<\/p>\n<p>The Seattle Mariners and Baltimore Orioles have been the two teams most hotly linked to Cruz this winter. Cruz&#8217;s former team, the Texas Rangers, have said they were doubtful to bring him back and later gave his number to Shin-Soo Choo.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz, 33, hit .266\/.327\/.506 in 2013 with 27 home runs and 76 RBI in 109 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four or five teams could end up signing outfielder Nelson Cruz to a multi-year contract according to one major league source. The Boston Globe&#8217;s Nick Cafardo said that &#8220;momentum is starting to build in Cruz\u2019s favor.&#8221; Cruz has remained on the market in part because of his 50 game suspension for the use of performance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[501,523,12],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-6190","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-nelson-cruz","10":"tag-texas-rangers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6190","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=6190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6190"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}