{"id":9505,"date":"2014-11-24T15:01:59","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T20:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9505"},"modified":"2014-11-24T15:01:59","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T20:01:59","slug":"josh-willingham-retires-from-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/11\/24\/josh-willingham-retires-from-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Willingham retires from baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_9506\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9506\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/joshwillingham.jpg\" alt=\"Getty Images\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9506\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/joshwillingham.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/joshwillingham-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9506\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nJosh Willingham had contributed little at the major league level over the last two seasons. On Monday the 35-year-old outfielder announced that he was retiring from baseball.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After praying on my decision many times and talking to my wife, my father and ex-players who have gone through the same process toward the end of their careers, I have decided to retire,&#8221; Willingham said. &#8220;I&#8217;m honored to have played for as many years as I have, and I feel even luckier to walk away on my own terms instead of having the decision made for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Coming off a ho-hum 2014 season in which he hit .215\/.346\/.397 with 14 home runs and 40 RBI in 92 games, Willingham finally made the decision which he had been wrestling with since September.<\/p>\n<p>In 11 seasons at the big league level, Willingham finishes with a career .253\/.358\/.465 with 195 home runs and 632 RBI. His best season came in 2010 as a member of the Twins when he set creer highs with 35 home runs and 110 RBI &#8211; his lone season with 100 or more RBI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Willingham had contributed little at the major league level over the last two seasons. On Monday the 35-year-old outfielder announced that he was retiring from baseball. &#8220;After praying on my decision many times and talking to my wife, my father and ex-players who have gone through the same process toward the end of their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,456,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-josh-willingham","10":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9505","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=9505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9507,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9505\/revisions\/9507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9505"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}