{"id":8280,"date":"2014-06-20T15:58:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T19:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8280"},"modified":"2014-06-20T15:58:48","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T19:58:48","slug":"phillies-reach-out-to-recently-released-grady-sizemore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/06\/20\/phillies-reach-out-to-recently-released-grady-sizemore\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies reach out to recently released Grady Sizemore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_8281\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8281\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/06\/gradysizemore.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"427\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8281\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/06\/gradysizemore.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/06\/gradysizemore-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8281\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nGrady Sizemore is currently looking for offers after the Boston Red Sox cut him loose this week.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently Sizemore, 31, has the interest of multiple teams including the Philadelphia Phillies.<\/p>\n<p>Considering Sizemore was hitting just .216\/.288\/.324 with two hoime runs and 15 RBI in 52 games this season, he will almost surely have to settle for a minor league contract.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>heard phillies are a team that&#39;s reached out to grady sizemore. but there are others, as well. seems like a low-risk play.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jon Heyman (@JonHeymanCBS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonHeymanCBS\/statuses\/480062673166409729\">June 20, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Entering play on Friday the Phillies are five games under .500 but are just four games out of first place. That they even have interest in Sizemore suggests that they are not ready to give up on the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grady Sizemore is currently looking for offers after the Boston Red Sox cut him loose this week. Apparently Sizemore, 31, has the interest of multiple teams including the Philadelphia Phillies. Considering Sizemore was hitting just .216\/.288\/.324 with two hoime runs and 15 RBI in 52 games this season, he will almost surely have to settle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[518,501,109],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-8280","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-grady-sizemore","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-philadelphia-phillies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8280","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=8280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8282,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8280\/revisions\/8282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8280"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}