{"id":9343,"date":"2014-11-10T22:50:20","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T03:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9343"},"modified":"2014-11-10T22:50:20","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T03:50:20","slug":"royals-have-talked-about-acquiring-ryan-howard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/11\/10\/royals-have-talked-about-acquiring-ryan-howard\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals have talked about acquiring Ryan Howard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_9344\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9344\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/ryanhoward.jpg\" alt=\"Getty Images\" width=\"594\" height=\"443\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9344\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/ryanhoward.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/ryanhoward-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9344\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nBilly Butler is now a free agent and the Kansas City Royals will need to find a replacement for him in their lineup.<\/p>\n<p>One internal option the Royals have talked about is Philadelphia Phillies first baseman Ryan Howard according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/mlb\/2014\/11\/10\/mlb-offseason-free-agents-gm-meetings-ryan-howard-royals\/18829791\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bob Nightengale<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Howard has a staggering $60 million left on his contract but the Royals would consider adding him if the Phillies ate enough of it.<\/p>\n<p>He appeared in 153 games hitting .223\/.310\/.30 with 23 home runs and 95 RBI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billy Butler is now a free agent and the Kansas City Royals will need to find a replacement for him in their lineup. One internal option the Royals have talked about is Philadelphia Phillies first baseman Ryan Howard according to Bob Nightengale. Howard has a staggering $60 million left on his contract but the Royals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[137,501,122],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-kansas-city-royals","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-ryan-howard"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9343","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=9343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9345,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9343\/revisions\/9345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9343"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}