{"id":4156,"date":"2013-08-01T13:36:36","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T17:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=4156"},"modified":"2013-08-01T13:36:36","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T17:36:36","slug":"lance-berkman-not-planning-to-retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/08\/01\/lance-berkman-not-planning-to-retire\/","title":{"rendered":"Lance Berkman not planning to retire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3463\" alt=\"lanceberkman\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/lanceberkman.jpg\" width=\"679\" height=\"608\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/lanceberkman.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/lanceberkman-300x268.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lance Berkman has not played in a game since July 6 and may not do so for the rest of the season but that does not mean he is retiring.<\/p>\n<p>Rumors began circulating ahead of yesterday&#8217;s MLB trade deadline that Berkman, 37, was considering retirement forgetting roughly $4 million in salary remaining on his one-year deal with the Texas Rangers<\/p>\n<p>Those rumors are untrue reports FOX Sports&#8217; Ken Rosenthal.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Source: Lance Berkman is NOT retiring.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ken_Rosenthal\/statuses\/362969953487421441\">August 1, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Berkman has a .254\/.355\/.377 line this season with six home runs and 34 RBI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lance Berkman has not played in a game since July 6 and may not do so for the rest of the season but that does not mean he is retiring. Rumors began circulating ahead of yesterday&#8217;s MLB trade deadline that Berkman, 37, was considering retirement forgetting roughly $4 million in salary remaining on his one-year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[60,12],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-4156","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-lance-berkman","9":"tag-texas-rangers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156","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=4156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4156"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}