{"id":337,"date":"2012-10-19T13:29:58","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T17:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=337"},"modified":"2012-10-19T13:29:58","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T17:29:58","slug":"buster-posey-named-comeback-player-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2012\/10\/19\/buster-posey-named-comeback-player-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Buster Posey named Comeback Player of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www2.pictures.zimbio.com\/gi\/Buster+Posey+NLCS+St+Louis+Cardinals+v+San+h7COaWV5Aejl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"301\" height=\"200\" \/>Major League Baseball has announced that Buster Posey of the San Fransisco Giants is the National Leagues Comeback Player of the Year. The Giants catcher returned from a broken ankle in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Posey hit .336\/.408\/.549 with 24 homers and 103 RBI this season for the Giants while proving to be a valuable face behind home plate.<\/p>\n<p>This may not be the only award for Posey. He is viewed by some to be the National Leagues MVP.<\/p>\n<p>The Giants are down three games to one in the National League Championship Series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major League Baseball has announced that Buster Posey of the San Fransisco Giants is the National Leagues Comeback Player of the Year. The Giants catcher returned from a broken ankle in 2011. Posey hit .336\/.408\/.549 with 24 homers and 103 RBI this season for the Giants while proving to be a valuable face behind home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[53],"coauthors":[11],"class_list":{"0":"post-337","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-buster-posey"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}