{"id":6439,"date":"2014-02-18T05:59:32","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T10:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6439"},"modified":"2014-02-18T05:59:32","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T10:59:32","slug":"barry-zito-is-taking-time-off-but-is-not-retiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/02\/18\/barry-zito-is-taking-time-off-but-is-not-retiring\/","title":{"rendered":"Barry Zito is taking time off but is not retiring?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2284\" alt=\"barryzito\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/barryzito.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"691\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/barryzito.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/barryzito-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Barry Zito plans to take some time off <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/writer\/jon-heyman\/24446958\/veteran-lefthander-barry-zito-is-taking-a-break-he-isnt-retiring\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">according<\/a> to CBS Sports&#8217; Jon Heyman. That is not meant to be read as retiring.<\/p>\n<p>Zito, 35, is not planning to pitch this season after posting a 5.74 ERA across 133 1\/3 innings of work last season for the San Francisco Giants.<\/p>\n<p>While older players have come back it&#8217;s hard to imagine that Zito will be better off in a year.<\/p>\n<p>The Giants declined an $18-million option for him in 2014 but he still made $126 million on that seven-year deal with San Francisco. It was not all bad as the Giants won two World Series, including in 2012 which was partly based on his post season success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barry Zito plans to take some time off according to CBS Sports&#8217; Jon Heyman. That is not meant to be read as retiring. Zito, 35, is not planning to pitch this season after posting a 5.74 ERA across 133 1\/3 innings of work last season for the San Francisco Giants. While older players have come [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[269,501,139],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-6439","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-barry-zito","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-san-francisco-giants"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6439","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=6439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6439"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}