{"id":8856,"date":"2014-08-17T22:33:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T02:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8856"},"modified":"2014-08-17T22:33:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T02:33:00","slug":"alex-rodriguez-prepping-for-2015-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/08\/17\/alex-rodriguez-prepping-for-2015-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Rodriguez prepping for 2015 return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_4753\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4753\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/09\/alexrodriguezgs.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Elsa\/Getty Images North America\" width=\"594\" height=\"486\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4753\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/09\/alexrodriguezgs.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/09\/alexrodriguezgs-300x245.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4753\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Elsa\/Getty Images North America<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nSuspended New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez is working out as he aims for his return to baseball in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez, 39, has been working out at both the University of Miami and at UCLA according to George A. King of the <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2014\/08\/16\/a-rod-prepping-for-2015-return\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">New York Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously Rodriguez is not about to just walk away from the game. He has three years and $61 million owed to him by the Yankees. Even Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner has already <a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/08\/14\/yankees-expecting-alex-rodriguez-back-in-lineup-in-2015\/\" title=\"Yankees expecting Alex Rodriguez back in lineup in 2015\">talked about a return<\/a> of Rodriguez to the lineup.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez has been taking ground balls at third base and even took swings off a tee.<\/p>\n<p>In 44 games last season Rodriguez hit .244\/.348\/.423 with seven home runs and 19 RBI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suspended New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez is working out as he aims for his return to baseball in 2015. Rodriguez, 39, has been working out at both the University of Miami and at UCLA according to George A. King of the New York Post. Obviously Rodriguez is not about to just walk away [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[48,501,38],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-8856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-alex-rodriguez","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-new-york-yankees"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8856","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=8856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8857,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8856\/revisions\/8857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8856"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}