{"id":6464,"date":"2014-02-21T00:43:53","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T05:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6464"},"modified":"2014-02-21T00:43:53","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T05:43:53","slug":"mark-teixeira-weeks-away-from-game-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/02\/21\/mark-teixeira-weeks-away-from-game-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Teixeira weeks away from game action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1912\" alt=\"markteixeira\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/markteixeira.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/markteixeira.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/markteixeira-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Spring Training is underway but one player who will not be hitting the field is New York Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira.<\/p>\n<p>Teixeira will be out until March 3 with his surgically repaired right wrist according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2014\/02\/20\/teixeira-still-at-least-a-couple-weeks-from-return\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">New York Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear when Teixeira will even be ready to swing at live batting practice, though he has been taking swings off a tee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProbably a week to 10 days,\u2019\u2019 said Teixeira.<\/p>\n<p>It goes without saying, Teixeira is a player to avoid in fantasy baseball.\u00a0Set to turn 34 in April he hit just .151\/.270\/.340 with three home runs and 12 RBI in 15 games last season. He will make roughly $22.5 million in each of the next three seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring Training is underway but one player who will not be hitting the field is New York Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira. Teixeira will be out until March 3 with his surgically repaired right wrist according to the New York Post. It&#8217;s unclear when Teixeira will even be ready to swing at live batting practice, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[267,501,38],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-6464","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-mark-teixeira","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-new-york-yankees"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6464","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=6464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6464"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}