{"id":6626,"date":"2014-03-05T14:44:10","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T19:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6626"},"modified":"2014-03-05T14:57:08","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T19:57:08","slug":"rick-ankiel-has-retired-from-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/03\/05\/rick-ankiel-has-retired-from-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Ankiel has retired from baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rick Ankiel is done with baseball. The former pitcher turned outfielder did not sign with a team this winter.<\/p>\n

Ankiel, 34, was believed to be seeking a contract to play in 2014.<\/p>\n

Initially, Ankiel came up as a pitcher making 51 appearances – 41 starts. He finished that portion of his career with a 3.90 ERA and 1.36 WHIP from 1999-2004.<\/p>\n

After injuries forced him to give up pitching he became an outfielder. He returned to the majors in 2007 and finished his time as a hitter with a .240\/.302\/.422 line with 76 home runs and 251 RBI. His best season came in 2008 when he hit .264 with 25 home runs and a career best 71 RBI.<\/p>\n

@DannyMacTV<\/a> shared on #stlcards<\/a> TV broadcast that OF Rick Ankiel has officially retired and hopes to join team front office.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Brian Walton (@B_Walton) March 5, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Ankiel is believed to be seeking a job in someone’s front office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rick Ankiel is done with baseball. The former pitcher turned outfielder did not sign with a team this winter. Ankiel, 34, was believed to be seeking a contract to play in 2014. Initially, Ankiel came up as a pitcher making 51 appearances – 41 starts. He finished that portion of his career with a 3.90 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[501,665,29],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-6626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-rick-ankiel","10":"tag-st-louis-cardinals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6626","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=6626"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6629,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6626\/revisions\/6629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6626"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}