{"id":6228,"date":"2014-02-05T11:07:34","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T16:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6228"},"modified":"2014-02-05T11:07:34","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T16:07:34","slug":"matt-diaz-retires-from-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/02\/05\/matt-diaz-retires-from-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Diaz retires from baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_993\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-993\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-993\" alt=\"mattdiaz\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/mattdiaz.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/mattdiaz.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/mattdiaz-300x255.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-993\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Tuesday veteran outfielder Matt Diaz announced his retirement from baseball.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released by Diaz on his blog he wrote about his decision to retire.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is a blog that I&#8217;ve known for a while I was going to write. \u00a0I just didn&#8217;t officially decide to write it until last night. \u00a0I&#8217;m moving on in my life from playing baseball. \u00a0Notice, I didn&#8217;t say, I was done with baseball! \u00a0How could anyone who loves the game ever &#8220;be done.&#8221; \u00a0And certainly I love the game! \u00a0I love the way it taught me to fail and get over it. \u00a0I love the way it helped me become the man I am today. \u00a0I love the way it&#8217;s provided for me and my family. \u00a0There&#8217;s so much to love about this game. \u00a0I just don&#8217;t love playing it anymore, and that&#8217;s how I know it&#8217;s time to not pursue a job playing this year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Diaz carved out a pretty nice career as a bench and platoon player, mainly with Atlanta. He will finish his career with a .290\/.338\/.429 line with 45 home runs and 225 RBI in 736 career games.<\/p>\n<p>Of course the best part of Diaz&#8217;s game was his ability to hit left handers. He ends his career with a .322\/.363\/.495 line against southpaws.<\/p>\n<p>Diaz will be 36 in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday veteran outfielder Matt Diaz announced his retirement from baseball. In a statement released by Diaz on his blog he wrote about his decision to retire. This is a blog that I&#8217;ve known for a while I was going to write. \u00a0I just didn&#8217;t officially decide to write it until last night. \u00a0I&#8217;m moving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[28,158,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-6228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-matt-diaz","tag-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6228","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=6228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6228"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}