{"id":9042,"date":"2014-09-09T12:24:39","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T16:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9042"},"modified":"2014-09-09T12:24:39","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T16:24:39","slug":"son-of-vladimir-guerrero-crushes-baseballs-like-his-father-did-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/09\/09\/son-of-vladimir-guerrero-crushes-baseballs-like-his-father-did-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Son of Vladimir Guerrero crushes baseballs like his father did (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/09\/vladguerrero.jpg\" alt=\"vladguerrero\" width=\"775\" height=\"426\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9043\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/09\/vladguerrero.jpg 775w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/09\/vladguerrero-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><br \/>\nVladimir Guerrero was one of baseball&#8217;s best power hitters during his prime. Known by nicknames such as &#8220;Vlad the Impaler&#8221; the slugger had a knack for swinging at anything and finding a way to place it over the outfield wall.<\/p>\n<p>The apple does not fall far from the tree apparently as his son is also quite the slugger.<\/p>\n<p>In a video of Vladimir Guerrero Jr. posted to YouTube the 15-year-old can be seen crushing baseballs. He stands 6-feet-2 and weights in at 220 pounds.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QyidnANLS0A\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Impressive. Scouts believe that Guerrero could be in the majors as a teenager. His father made his big league debut at 21 and finished his 16-year career with a .318\/.379\/.553 line to go along with 449 home runs and 1496 RBI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vladimir Guerrero was one of baseball&#8217;s best power hitters during his prime. Known by nicknames such as &#8220;Vlad the Impaler&#8221; the slugger had a knack for swinging at anything and finding a way to place it over the outfield wall. The apple does not fall far from the tree apparently as his son is also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,501,845],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-9042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-front","tag-mlb","tag-vladimir-guerrero-jr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9042","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=9042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9044,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9042\/revisions\/9044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9042"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}