{"id":9277,"date":"2014-11-01T16:05:11","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T20:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9277"},"modified":"2014-11-01T16:05:11","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T20:05:11","slug":"mike-hessman-returns-to-tigers-on-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/11\/01\/mike-hessman-returns-to-tigers-on-minor-league-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Hessman returns to Tigers on minor league deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/mikehessman.jpg\" alt=\"mikehessman\" width=\"600\" height=\"420\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9278\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/mikehessman.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/mikehessman-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Detroit Tigers will keep Mike Hessman around at the minor league level next season.<\/p>\n<p>Hessman, 36, has proven to be a slugger at the Triple-A level hitting 272 homers in the International league for a total of 417 minor league homers.<\/p>\n<p>Even with those impressive numbers, Hessman has not appeared in a game at the big league level since 2010. His chances of appearing in a game during the 2015 season are not exactly high either though he figures to be invited to spring training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Detroit Tigers will keep Mike Hessman around at the minor league level next season. Hessman, 36, has proven to be a slugger at the Triple-A level hitting 272 homers in the International league for a total of 417 minor league homers. Even with those impressive numbers, Hessman has not appeared in a game at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9277","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9277","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=9277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9279,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9277\/revisions\/9279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9277"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}