{"id":6246,"date":"2014-02-06T11:11:57","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T16:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6246"},"modified":"2014-02-06T11:11:57","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T16:11:57","slug":"albert-pujols-is-having-a-normal-offseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/02\/06\/albert-pujols-is-having-a-normal-offseason\/","title":{"rendered":"Albert Pujols is having a normal offseason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_3987\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3987\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/albertpujols.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Brian Bahr\/Getty Images North America\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3987\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/albertpujols.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/albertpujols-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3987\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Brian Bahr\/Getty Images North America<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nLos Angeles Angels first baseman Albert Pujols has enjoyed a &#8220;normal offseason&#8221; according to Joel Sherman of the New York Post.<\/p>\n<p>Pujols, 34, dealt with a tear in the plantar fascia of his left foot in 2013 and was shut down before the season ended. \u00a0Pujols hit career lows in nearly every offensive statistic finishing with a .258\/.330\/.437 line with 17 home runs and just 64 RBI.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Also on Hot Stove, Pujols has had \u201cnormal\u201d offseason, hitting since Oct. Why that is so vital for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Angels&amp;src=hash\">#Angels<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Joel Sherman (@Joelsherman1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Joelsherman1\/statuses\/431422247514144768\">February 6, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Angels will be hoping that they get more out of Pujols this season and going forward as they owe him $222 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Angels first baseman Albert Pujols has enjoyed a &#8220;normal offseason&#8221; according to Joel Sherman of the New York Post. Pujols, 34, dealt with a tear in the plantar fascia of his left foot in 2013 and was shut down before the season ended. \u00a0Pujols hit career lows in nearly every offensive statistic finishing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[142,114],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-6246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-albert-pujols","9":"tag-los-angeles-angels"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6246","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=6246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6246"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}