{"id":6455,"date":"2014-02-19T21:49:06","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T02:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6455"},"modified":"2014-02-19T21:49:06","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T02:49:06","slug":"alfonso-soriano-considering-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/02\/19\/alfonso-soriano-considering-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Alfonso Soriano considering retirement?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6456\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6456\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6456\" alt=\"getty\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/alfonsosoriano.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/alfonsosoriano.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/alfonsosoriano-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6456\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Coming off a year in which he swatted 34 home runs it would be surprising to hear Alfonso Soriano is considering retirement, but that appears to be the case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt depends on how I feel,\u2019\u2019 Soriano told <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2014\/02\/19\/yankees-alfonso-soriano-ponders-retirement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The New York Post<\/a>. \u201cIf I am healthy I will play [in 2015]. If not, I will let it go. It depends how I feel.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Soriano turned 38 in January and knows he is one down season away from being done. He enters the final year of a nine-year deal worth $136 million, which will pay him $18 million this season. The Yankees are on the hook for $5 million of that salary while the Chicago Cubs will pay the rest.<\/p>\n<p>More important to the Yankees and Soriano right now is finding a place for him in their lineup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know,\u2019\u2019 Soriano said when asked where he would play. \u201cThey said something about DH and left field. I want to be in the lineup, it doesn\u2019t matter where.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>With Jacoby Ellsburry signing to play center, the addition of Carlos Beltran in right and Brett Gardner moving to left there could be a lot of DH in Soriano&#8217;s future. Which may not be the worst thing when you consider Soriano&#8217;s history in the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming off a year in which he swatted 34 home runs it would be surprising to hear Alfonso Soriano is considering retirement, but that appears to be the case. \u201cIt depends on how I feel,\u2019\u2019 Soriano told The New York Post. \u201cIf I am healthy I will play [in 2015]. If not, I will let [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[417,503,501,38],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-6455","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-alfonso-soriano","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york-yankees"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6455","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=6455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6455"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}