{"id":6402,"date":"2014-02-15T20:24:01","date_gmt":"2014-02-16T01:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6402"},"modified":"2014-02-15T20:24:01","modified_gmt":"2014-02-16T01:24:01","slug":"carl-crawford-seeking-to-steal-more-stolen-bases-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/02\/15\/carl-crawford-seeking-to-steal-more-stolen-bases-in-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Carl Crawford seeking to steal more stolen bases in 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2979\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2979\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/06\/crawford.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Dustin Bradford\/Getty Images\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2979\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/06\/crawford.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/06\/crawford-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2979\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Dustin Bradford\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Carl Crawford called his stolen base total from a year ago &#8220;frustrating&#8221; on Saturday and after an offseason of strengthening his core is ready to improve on those numbers<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I went head-first all the time when I was younger,&#8221; Crawford said, via <a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/news\/article.jsp?ymd=20140215&#038;content_id=67822796&#038;notebook_id=67822490&#038;vkey=notebook_la&#038;c_id=la&#038;utm_source=twitterfeed&#038;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">MLB.com<\/a>. &#8220;Generally, that&#8217;s not the safest way. But either I do that or I stand still at first base all year. I&#8217;ll try something different and get that doubt out of my head.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As for his 15 stolen bases on 19 attempts?<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s what&#8217;s frustrating,&#8221; Crawford said. &#8220;I got my triples, went from first to third, why am I not stealing more? It&#8217;s all mental and I just have to get over the hump.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Crawford stole 46 or more bases in seven of eight seasons from 2003-2010 while with the Tampa Bay Rays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carl Crawford called his stolen base total from a year ago &#8220;frustrating&#8221; on Saturday and after an offseason of strengthening his core is ready to improve on those numbers &#8220;I went head-first all the time when I was younger,&#8221; Crawford said, via MLB.com. &#8220;Generally, that&#8217;s not the safest way. But either I do that or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[357,135,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-6402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-carl-crawford","9":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","10":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6402","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=6402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6402"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}