{"id":6761,"date":"2014-03-18T09:44:36","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T13:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6761"},"modified":"2014-03-18T09:44:36","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T13:44:36","slug":"phillies-trying-to-unload-jimmy-rollins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/03\/18\/phillies-trying-to-unload-jimmy-rollins\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies trying to unload Jimmy Rollins?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/03\/jimmyrollins.jpg\" alt=\"jimmyrollins\" width=\"594\" height=\"390\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6762\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/03\/jimmyrollins.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/03\/jimmyrollins-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nSome within the Philadelphia Phillies believe they could be better off without shortstop Jimmy Rollins.<\/p>\n<p>According to ESPN&#8217;s Buster Olney there is a &#8220;strong sentiment&#8221; within the organization that the team would be better off without the 35-year-old on their roster.<\/p>\n<p>Owed $11 million this season with a contract which includes a vesting option for $11 million next season the Phillies may find it hard to unload Rollins.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Sources: There is strong sentiment within PHI organization right now that the team would be better off trading shortstop Jimmy Rollins ASAP.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Buster Olney (@Buster_ESPN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Buster_ESPN\/statuses\/445857410444701696\">March 18, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>To complicate matters is that Rollins owns rights as a 10-and-5 player and could reject any trade.<\/p>\n<p>The question remains to be seen as whether this is the fallout from a recent issue with manager Ryne Sandberg or just a change in direction in the front office.<\/p>\n<p>Rollins appeared in 160 games last season hitting .252\/.318\/.348 with six home runs, 65 runs scored while stealing 22 bases on 28 attempts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some within the Philadelphia Phillies believe they could be better off without shortstop Jimmy Rollins. According to ESPN&#8217;s Buster Olney there is a &#8220;strong sentiment&#8221; within the organization that the team would be better off without the 35-year-old on their roster. Owed $11 million this season with a contract which includes a vesting option for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,678,501,109],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-6761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-jimmy-rollins","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-philadelphia-phillies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6761","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=6761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6763,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6761\/revisions\/6763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6761"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}