{"id":1407,"date":"2013-02-18T20:26:10","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T01:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=1407"},"modified":"2013-02-18T20:26:10","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T01:26:10","slug":"russell-martin-to-play-shortstop-during-wbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/02\/18\/russell-martin-to-play-shortstop-during-wbc\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell Martin to play shortstop during WBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1408\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1408\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1408\" alt=\"Getty Image\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/02\/russellmartin.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/02\/russellmartin.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/02\/russellmartin-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1408\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It has been a while since Russell Martin played thirdbase or second base yet he will try to play shortstop during the upcoming World Baseball Classic.<\/p>\n<p>Martin, 30, has never played a game at shortstop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not an easy decision,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/msn.foxsports.com\/mlb\/story\/pittsburgh-pirates-catcher-russell-martin-shortstop-canada-world-baseball-classic-021813\" target=\"_blank\">Martin said<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m doing it because I feel I owe it to the Canadian people to compete for my country, even if I have more of a world citizen-type attitude where I feel like we\u2019re all in it together overall. It\u2019s fun to compete. It makes for good baseball. People play for the passion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Martin says the Pirates have been supportive of him playing in the WBC even as the catcher attempts to play shortstop.<\/p>\n<p>On team Canada&#8217;s roster he will join Justin Morneau, Brett Lawrie, Michael Saunders, John Axford, Jesse Crain and Jameson Taillon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a while since Russell Martin played thirdbase or second base yet he will try to play shortstop during the upcoming World Baseball Classic. Martin, 30, has never played a game at shortstop. \u201cIt\u2019s not an easy decision,\u201d Martin said. \u201cI\u2019m doing it because I feel I owe it to the Canadian people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[107],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-1407","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-russell-martin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1407"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}