{"id":9856,"date":"2015-01-06T00:11:27","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T05:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9856"},"modified":"2015-01-06T00:11:27","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T05:11:27","slug":"mets-interested-in-stephen-drew-if-price-drops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2015\/01\/06\/mets-interested-in-stephen-drew-if-price-drops\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets interested in Stephen Drew if price drops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/01\/stephendrew.jpg\" alt=\"stephendrew\" width=\"594\" height=\"406\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9857\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/01\/stephendrew.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/01\/stephendrew-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Mets are interested in infielder Stephen Drew, if his price tag drops.<\/p>\n<p>If this story sounds like it was from last year that&#8217;s because the Mets had the same thinking back then.<\/p>\n<p>Coming off a season in which Drew hit just .162\/.237\/.299 while playing 85 games for the Red Sox and Yankees you can see why the Mets want him to lower his price from the reported $7-10 million he has been seeking.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Stephen Drew is seeking upwards of $7 million for 2015; Mets could be interested if the price drops significantly, but not holding vigil.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mike Puma (@NYPost_Mets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYPost_Mets\/status\/552294144895627264\">January 6, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>How low the Mets want Drew to go remains to be seen. Wherever he signs he will be taking a one-year prove it deal in hopes of cashing in big next season.<\/p>\n<p>Wilmer Flores is currently slated to start the season at shortstop for the Mets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets are interested in infielder Stephen Drew, if his price tag drops. If this story sounds like it was from last year that&#8217;s because the Mets had the same thinking back then. Coming off a season in which Drew hit just .162\/.237\/.299 while playing 85 games for the Red Sox and Yankees you can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,501,76,335],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-new-york-mets","11":"tag-stephen-drew"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9856","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=9856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9858,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9856\/revisions\/9858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9856"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}