{"id":9104,"date":"2014-10-01T11:01:13","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T15:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9104"},"modified":"2014-10-01T11:01:13","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T15:01:13","slug":"adam-dunn-still-planning-to-retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/10\/01\/adam-dunn-still-planning-to-retire\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Dunn still planning to retire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_9105\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9105\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/10\/adamdunn.jpg\" alt=\"Getty Images\" width=\"594\" height=\"401\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9105\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/10\/adamdunn.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/10\/adamdunn-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9105\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nAdam Dunn had said that he planned to retire at the end of this season. With the elimination of the Athletics in a one-game playoff against the Royals the 14-year veteran&#8217;s career is set to be over.<\/p>\n<p>Dunn talked after the game saying &#8220;That&#8217;s probably it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s not make a bigger deal out of it. I love Bob [Melvin].&#8221; added Dunn following the loss to the Royals in which Dunn did not play. &#8220;He&#8217;s one of the best managers I&#8217;ve ever played for. He&#8217;s as good as there is out there. You wish the best for a guy like that. He&#8217;s awesome. Awesome.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dunn waited 14 years and 2,001 games to appear on a post season roster and never got to play in the game. One of baseball&#8217;s more consistent power threats early in his career, Dunn will finish with 462 career home runs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Dunn had said that he planned to retire at the end of this season. With the elimination of the Athletics in a one-game playoff against the Royals the 14-year veteran&#8217;s career is set to be over. Dunn talked after the game saying &#8220;That&#8217;s probably it.&#8221; &#8220;Let&#8217;s not make a bigger deal out of it. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[656,503,501,272],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9104","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-adam-dunn","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-oakland-athletics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9104","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=9104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9106,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9104\/revisions\/9106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9104"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}