{"id":8708,"date":"2014-08-04T17:27:30","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T21:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8708"},"modified":"2014-08-04T17:27:30","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T21:27:30","slug":"mets-designate-bobby-abreu-for-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/08\/04\/mets-designate-bobby-abreu-for-assignment\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets designate Bobby Abreu for assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_8709\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8709\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/08\/bobbyabreu.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8709\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/08\/bobbyabreu.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/08\/bobbyabreu-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8709\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nAfter a nice start to the season, outfielder Bobby Abreu has run into a slump. On Monday the New York Mets designated the 40-year-old for assignment.<\/p>\n<p>Given Abreu&#8217;s age and recent struggles it is possible that his career could be coming to an end.<\/p>\n<p>Abreu sat out the entire 2013 season after failing to land a contract. He was hitting .238\/.331\/.336 with a home run and 14 RBI in 66 games for the Mets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a nice start to the season, outfielder Bobby Abreu has run into a slump. On Monday the New York Mets designated the 40-year-old for assignment. Given Abreu&#8217;s age and recent struggles it is possible that his career could be coming to an end. Abreu sat out the entire 2013 season after failing to land [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[611,501,76],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-8708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-bobby-abreu","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-mets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8708","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=8708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8710,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8708\/revisions\/8710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8708"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}