{"id":953,"date":"2012-12-21T11:08:47","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T16:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=953"},"modified":"2012-12-21T11:08:47","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T16:08:47","slug":"orioles-sign-adam-greenberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2012\/12\/21\/orioles-sign-adam-greenberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles sign Adam Greenberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-52\" alt=\"adamgreenberg\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/10\/adamgreenberg.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/10\/adamgreenberg.jpg 480w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/10\/adamgreenberg-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Adam Greenberg may get another big league at-bat after all. The Baltimore Orioles have <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.courant.com\/2012-12-20\/sports\/hc-adam-greenberg-orioles-1221-20121220_1_adam-greenberg-years-in-independent-baseball-matt-liston\">signed<\/a> Greenberg to a minor league contract.<\/p>\n<p>In 2005 Greenberg was hit in the head by Florida Marlins pitcher Valerio De Los Santos in his first big league at-bat. Greenberg never returned to the Cubs and eventually flamed out in the minors.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41 alignright\" alt=\"adam-greenberg\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/10\/adam-greenberg.jpeg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>Last year an online petition was started in order to give Greenberg another chance to bat. He was signed by the Florida Marlins to a contract and got his chance to swing against R.A. Dickey. Dickey struck out Greenberg on three pitches.<\/p>\n<p>Greenberg, 32,\u00a0 visited with teams during the winter meetings and spoke with Orioles manager Buck Showalter for a chance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t want a handout, I don&#8217;t want a gift. All I want is the opportunity, and I&#8217;ve always proven, if you give me that shot, I will make the most of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Greenberg will not be invited to spring training but that does not mean that he will not have a chance to make it to the majors with the Orioles. Late last season Lew Ford returned to the big leagues with the Orioles after missing five seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Greenberg may get another big league at-bat after all. The Baltimore Orioles have signed Greenberg to a minor league contract. In 2005 Greenberg was hit in the head by Florida Marlins pitcher Valerio De Los Santos in his first big league at-bat. Greenberg never returned to the Cubs and eventually flamed out in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[16],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-953","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-adam-greenberg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953","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=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}