{"id":9881,"date":"2015-01-08T22:10:50","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T03:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9881"},"modified":"2015-01-08T22:10:50","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T03:10:50","slug":"talks-between-orioles-and-colby-rasmus-ongoing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2015\/01\/08\/talks-between-orioles-and-colby-rasmus-ongoing\/","title":{"rendered":"Talks between Orioles and Colby Rasmus ongoing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_8102\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8102\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/06\/colbyrasmus.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"458\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8102\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/06\/colbyrasmus.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/06\/colbyrasmus-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8102\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Orioles continue to pursue free agent outfielder Colby Rasmus.<\/p>\n<p>According to Jim Bowden of ESPN, talks between teh two sides are &#8220;gaining steam.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Orioles are one of a few teams who have been linked to Rasmus who seems certain to land a one-year prove it deal regardless of where he signs.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Orioles talks with Colby Rasmus are gaining steam according to source<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jim Bowden (@JimBowden_ESPN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBowden_ESPN\/status\/553338669386313728\">January 8, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Rasmus has shown a power stroke in the past but is coming off a poor 2014 season in which he hit a mere .225\/.287\/.448 with 18 home runs in 104 games for the Blue Jays.<\/p>\n<p>Orioles manager Buck Showalter recently flew to Alabama to meet Rasmus and given what one-year in Baltimore did for Nelson Cruz it would be assumed that Rasmus has genuine interest in playing for the Orioles this coming season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Orioles continue to pursue free agent outfielder Colby Rasmus. According to Jim Bowden of ESPN, talks between teh two sides are &#8220;gaining steam.&#8221; The Orioles are one of a few teams who have been linked to Rasmus who seems certain to land a one-year prove it deal regardless of where he signs. Orioles talks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[9,777,501,95],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-baltimore-orioles","9":"tag-colby-rasmus","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-toronto-blue-jays"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9881","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=9881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9882,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9881\/revisions\/9882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9881"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}