{"id":8700,"date":"2014-08-02T22:22:18","date_gmt":"2014-08-03T02:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8700"},"modified":"2014-08-02T22:22:18","modified_gmt":"2014-08-03T02:22:18","slug":"jim-thome-retires-from-baseball-signs-honorary-deal-with-indians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/08\/02\/jim-thome-retires-from-baseball-signs-honorary-deal-with-indians\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Thome retires from baseball, signs honorary deal with Indians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/08\/jimthome.jpg\" alt=\"jimthome\" width=\"594\" height=\"401\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8701\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/08\/jimthome.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/08\/jimthome-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jim Thome has not appeared in a baseball game since the 2012 season. On Saturday he signed an honorary one-day deal with the Indians retiring with the team that he made his big league debut with in 1991.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came on the day that a statue of Thome was unveiled in Cleveland&#8217;s Progressive Field.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Thome and family in front of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ThomeStatue?src=hash\">#ThomeStatue<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/J7yvkf4eFh\">pic.twitter.com\/J7yvkf4eFh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Cleveland Indians (@Indians) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Indians\/statuses\/495682185504890880\">August 2, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Thoem played with the Indians from 1991-2002 before returning in 2011. He also made stops with the Phillies, White Sox, Dodgers, Twins and Orioles.<\/p>\n<p>Thome finishes his 22-year career with a .276\/.402\/.554 line to go with 612 home runs and 1699 RBI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Thome has not appeared in a baseball game since the 2012 season. On Saturday he signed an honorary one-day deal with the Indians retiring with the team that he made his big league debut with in 1991. The announcement came on the day that a statue of Thome was unveiled in Cleveland&#8217;s Progressive Field. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[156,503,132,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-8700","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-cleveland-indians","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-jim-thome","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8700","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=8700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8702,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8700\/revisions\/8702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8700"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}