{"id":6481,"date":"2014-02-22T16:01:47","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T21:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6481"},"modified":"2014-02-22T16:01:47","modified_gmt":"2014-02-22T21:01:47","slug":"rockies-keeping-carlos-gonzalez-in-left-field-holding-tryout-for-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/02\/22\/rockies-keeping-carlos-gonzalez-in-left-field-holding-tryout-for-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockies keeping Carlos Gonzalez in left field, holding tryout for center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6482\" alt=\"carlosgonzalez\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/carlosgonzalez.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/carlosgonzalez.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/carlosgonzalez-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nCarlos Gonzalez will not make the move to center field this season. Speaking to reporters on Saturday, Rockies manager Walt Weiss said that the team would hold a tryout for the position while Gonzalez would remain in left.<\/p>\n<p>The Rockies will allow Drew Stubbs, Brandon Barnes and Corey Dickerson to compete for the starting job in center this spring.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Rockies&amp;src=hash\">#Rockies<\/a> manager Walt Weiss says <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CarGoMedia5\">@CarGoMedia5<\/a> will stay in LF instead of moving to CF. Competition will be in CF: Stubbs, Dickerson, Barnes<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Thomas Harding (@harding_at_mlb) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/harding_at_mlb\/statuses\/437323463854788608\">February 22, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez appeared in 110 games last season. The Rockies are hoping he can be on the field more this coming season. He finished 2013 with a .302\/.367\/.591 line with 26 home runs and 70 RBI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Gonzalez will not make the move to center field this season. Speaking to reporters on Saturday, Rockies manager Walt Weiss said that the team would hold a tryout for the position while Gonzalez would remain in left. The Rockies will allow Drew Stubbs, Brandon Barnes and Corey Dickerson to compete for the starting job [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[653,190],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-6481","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-carlos-gonzalez","9":"tag-colorado-rockies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6481","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=6481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6481"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}