{"id":889,"date":"2012-12-17T12:49:51","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T17:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=889"},"modified":"2012-12-17T12:49:51","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T17:49:51","slug":"reds-prospect-stable-after-one-car-crash-that-killed-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2012\/12\/17\/reds-prospect-stable-after-one-car-crash-that-killed-father\/","title":{"rendered":"Reds prospect stable after one car crash that killed father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-890 alignright\" alt=\"masonfelt\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/masonfelt.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/masonfelt.jpg 250w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/masonfelt-208x300.jpg 208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>The 2012 fifth-round pick of the Cincinnati Reds is in stable condition after a single vehicle accident claimed the life of his father.<\/p>\n<p>Mason Felt, 18, was driving his Ford F-150 when he began to drift off the road. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gosanangelo.com\/news\/2012\/dec\/15\/crash-near-ozona-kills-georgia-man-injures\/\">According<\/a> to police, Mason Felt attempted to overcorrect and then went through both lanes of traffic into the center median before overturning his truck.<\/p>\n<p>Felt&#8217;s father, Richard, was pronounced dead at the scene. The elder Felt was 51-years old and not wearing his seatbelt. He spent time in the Los Angeles Dodgers organization from 1980-1985.<\/p>\n<p>The accident occurred in Texas on Interstate 10, sometime after 10 a.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Reds signed Mason Felt after selecting him with the 172nd overall pick. He signed with the team for $317,800 instead of attending Oregon State which had offered him a baseball scholarship.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-3, 200-pound southpaw earned first-team all-state honors as a junior after going 11-1 with a 1.50 earned run average which at Hebron Christian Academy high school. He pitched in 13 games and 70 innings, tallying 122 strikeouts and tossed 10 complete games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2012 fifth-round pick of the Cincinnati Reds is in stable condition after a single vehicle accident claimed the life of his father. Mason Felt, 18, was driving his Ford F-150 when he began to drift off the road. According to police, Mason Felt attempted to overcorrect and then went through both lanes of traffic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889","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=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}