{"id":9153,"date":"2014-10-08T10:39:07","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T14:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9153"},"modified":"2014-10-08T10:39:07","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T14:39:07","slug":"josh-beckett-planning-to-retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/10\/08\/josh-beckett-planning-to-retire\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Beckett planning to retire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/10\/joshbeckett.jpg\" alt=\"joshbeckett\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9154\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/10\/joshbeckett.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/10\/joshbeckett-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nFree agent to be Josh Beckett is planning to retire rather than return for a 14th season in the majors.<\/p>\n<p>Following the Dodgers elimination at the hands of the Cardinals on Tuesday, the 34-year-old pitcher told reporters that he did not plan to attempt a comeback following a hip surgery which is scheduled for May.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just don&#8217;t see me going through that rehab and coming back to pitch at this point in my life,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Beckett made $15.75 million this season  while making 20 starts and going 6-6 with a 2.88 ERA and 1.17 WHIP for the Dodgers. He threw a no-hitter in late May.<\/p>\n<p>He ends his 14-year career with a 138-106 record and 3.88 ERA, having won the World Series with the Marlins in 2003 and Red Sox in 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free agent to be Josh Beckett is planning to retire rather than return for a 14th season in the majors. Following the Dodgers elimination at the hands of the Cardinals on Tuesday, the 34-year-old pitcher told reporters that he did not plan to attempt a comeback following a hip surgery which is scheduled for May. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[359,135,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-9153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-josh-beckett","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9153","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=9153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9155,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9153\/revisions\/9155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9153"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}