{"id":9159,"date":"2014-10-10T00:42:24","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T04:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9159"},"modified":"2014-10-10T00:42:24","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T04:42:24","slug":"john-buck-elects-to-become-free-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/10\/10\/john-buck-elects-to-become-free-agent\/","title":{"rendered":"John Buck elects to become free agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/10\/johnbuck.jpg\" alt=\"johnbuck\" width=\"594\" height=\"401\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9160\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/10\/johnbuck.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/10\/johnbuck-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nAfter being designated for assignment earlier this week, John Buck has elected to become a free agent.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old Buck hit just .225\/.289\/.281 with a home run and six RBI in 32 games between the Seattle Mariners and Los Angeles Angles.<\/p>\n<p>Signs point to the veteran of 11 big league seasons having to settle for a minor league contract. Buck has shown some power in the past but has never really hit for much average or gotten on bases enough to be a reliable contributor. Someone will give him a contract this winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After being designated for assignment earlier this week, John Buck has elected to become a free agent. The 34-year-old Buck hit just .225\/.289\/.281 with a home run and six RBI in 32 games between the Seattle Mariners and Los Angeles Angles. Signs point to the veteran of 11 big league seasons having to settle for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[852,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9159","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-john-buck","9":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9159","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=9159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9161,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9159\/revisions\/9161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9159"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}