{"id":144,"date":"2009-10-31T13:45:08","date_gmt":"2009-10-31T17:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/?p=144"},"modified":"2009-10-31T13:45:08","modified_gmt":"2009-10-31T17:45:08","slug":"geoff-blum-keeps-job-in-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2009\/10\/31\/geoff-blum-keeps-job-in-houston\/","title":{"rendered":"Geoff Blum keeps job in Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/view.picapp.com\/default.aspx?term=geoff blum&amp;iid=3624512\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 0pt none\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.picapp.com\/ftp\/Images\/5\/f\/1\/d\/Geoff_Blum_bdb2.jpg?adImageId=7048866&amp;imageId=3624512\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Geoff Blum\" width=\"234\" height=\"344\" \/><\/a>Geoff Blum will return to the Houston Astros for the 2010 season after inking a one year deal worth $1.5 million with an option for 2011 valued at $1.65 million.<\/p>\n<p>Last season Blum was cast into the role as the teams starting third basemen after they let Ty Wiggington go and Aaron Boone was forced to undergo open heart surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Blum responded much the way he has though the course of his career. Hitting .247\/.314\/.367 with 10 homers and 49 RBI in 381 at-bats.<\/p>\n<p>The feeling in Houston is that the team will at-least attempt to find a fixture at third base. Last season Blum was signed to a $1.2 million deal in an attempt to ease Chris Johnson into regular playing time. Johnson however struggled at Triple-A and was unproductive at the big league level as well.<\/p>\n<p>Idealy Blum is the type of player a team likes to have on the bench. Though stretched at second and short at this point in his career he&#8217;s still able to be penciled in at those positions and should the situation arise he&#8217;s got experience in the outfield.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geoff Blum will return to the Houston Astros for the 2010 season after inking a one year deal worth $1.5 million with an option for 2011 valued at $1.65 million. Last season Blum was cast into the role as the teams starting third basemen after they let Ty Wiggington go and Aaron Boone was forced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[59,235,261],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","tag-baseball","tag-geoff-blum","tag-houston-astros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}