{"id":9289,"date":"2014-11-05T01:55:22","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T06:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9289"},"modified":"2014-11-05T01:55:22","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T06:55:22","slug":"alfonso-soriano-retires-from-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/11\/05\/alfonso-soriano-retires-from-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"Alfonso Soriano retires from baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_6456\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6456\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/alfonsosoriano.jpg\" alt=\"getty\" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6456\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/alfonsosoriano.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/alfonsosoriano-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6456\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nGiven that Alfonso Soriano was released by the Yankees in July and remained unemployed though the end of the season it should come as little surprise that the 38-year-old has decided to retire from baseball.<\/p>\n<p>Soriano had a solid career which was highlighted by a 40\/40 season in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>In a 16-year career he finishes with a .270\/.319\/.500 line with 412 home runs and 1,159 RBI while earning seven trips to the All-Star game.<\/p>\n<p>Some around Chicago may feel differently about Soriano who joined the Cubs in 2007 as his peak seasons were winding down. <\/p>\n<p>During his tenure with the Cubs he produced a .264\/.317\/.495 line while hitting 181 home runs and driving in 526 RBI during seven seasons. Aside from batting average, those numbers all were higher than the ones produced while a member of the Yankees for parts of seven years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given that Alfonso Soriano was released by the Yankees in July and remained unemployed though the end of the season it should come as little surprise that the 38-year-old has decided to retire from baseball. Soriano had a solid career which was highlighted by a 40\/40 season in 2006. In a 16-year career he finishes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[417,503,501,38],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-alfonso-soriano","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york-yankees"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9289","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=9289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9290,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9289\/revisions\/9290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9289"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}