{"id":5558,"date":"2013-12-11T22:47:31","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T03:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5558"},"modified":"2013-12-11T22:47:31","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T03:47:31","slug":"report-yankees-turn-down-brandon-phillips-offer-from-reds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/12\/11\/report-yankees-turn-down-brandon-phillips-offer-from-reds\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Yankees turn down Brandon Phillips offer from Reds"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5559\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5559\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5559\" alt=\"getty images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/brandonphillips.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/brandonphillips.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/brandonphillips-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5559\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The New York Yankees have a surplus of outfielders. Brett Gardner is the outfielder with the most trade value but the Yankees are not in a rush to trade him even as general manager Brian Cashman acknowledges calls about the 30-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>One team said to have interest in Gardner is the Cincinnati Reds who were willing to offer up second baseman Brandon Phillips in a potential deal according to CBS&#8217; Jon Heyman.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23yankees&amp;src=hash\">#yankees<\/a> turned down a brandon phillips for brett gardner offer. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23reds&amp;src=hash\">#reds<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jon Heyman (@JonHeymanCBS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonHeymanCBS\/statuses\/410969060289966080\">December 12, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees are in the market for a second baseman but appear in no hurry to trade Garnder.<\/p>\n<p>Gardner appeared in 145 games last season compiling a .273\/.344\/.416 line with eight hoe runs, 52 RBI, 81 runs scored and 24 stolen bases in 32 attempts.<\/p>\n<p>Phillips, 32, is coming off a down season in which he hit just .261\/.310\/.396 with 18 home runs, 80 runs scored and five stolen bases. Still it was not all bad as he set a career high with 103 RBI, was selected to the All-Star game and won a gold glove.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Yankees have a surplus of outfielders. Brett Gardner is the outfielder with the most trade value but the Yankees are not in a rush to trade him even as general manager Brian Cashman acknowledges calls about the 30-year-old. One team said to have interest in Gardner is the Cincinnati Reds who were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[556,557,503,501,38],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5558","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-brandon-phillips","9":"tag-brett-garnder","10":"tag-front","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-new-york-yankees"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5558","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=5558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5558"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}