{"id":8574,"date":"2014-07-16T09:59:28","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T13:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8574"},"modified":"2014-07-16T09:59:28","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T13:59:28","slug":"korean-team-releases-luke-scott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/07\/16\/korean-team-releases-luke-scott\/","title":{"rendered":"Korean team releases Luke Scott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/07\/lukescott.jpg\" alt=\"lukescott\" width=\"594\" height=\"433\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8575\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/07\/lukescott.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/07\/lukescott-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe SK Wyverns of the Korean Baseball Organization has released former major league outfielder Luke Scott.<\/p>\n<p>Scott, 36, made what the team called &#8220;disrespectful&#8221; behavior towards coach Lee Man-soon calling him a &#8220;liar.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The fracas began over Scott&#8217;s most recent injury. He is dealing with plantar fasciitis. Scott was not happy with the way the team had been handling the situation.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/leeinks.weei.com\/sports\/2014\/07\/16\/former-mlb-player-luke-scott-fired-from-korean-team-after-confrontation-with-coach?utm_source=dlvr.it&#038;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">WEEI<\/a>, Scott told reporters the team did not respect his way of handling his physical condition.<\/p>\n<p>In 33 games this season for the Wyners Scott was hitting .267 with six home runs.<\/p>\n<p>Scott has seen nine seasons in MLB playing for Houston, Baltimore and Tampa Bay. He is a career .258\/.340\/.481 hitter with 135 career home runs and 436 RBI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SK Wyverns of the Korean Baseball Organization has released former major league outfielder Luke Scott. Scott, 36, made what the team called &#8220;disrespectful&#8221; behavior towards coach Lee Man-soon calling him a &#8220;liar.&#8221; The fracas began over Scott&#8217;s most recent injury. He is dealing with plantar fasciitis. Scott was not happy with the way the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[257,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-8574","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-luke-scott","9":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8574","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=8574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8576,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8574\/revisions\/8576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8574"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}