{"id":5912,"date":"2014-01-13T11:44:08","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T16:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5912"},"modified":"2014-01-13T11:51:36","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T16:51:36","slug":"orioles-were-concerned-about-balfours-wrist-and-knee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/01\/13\/orioles-were-concerned-about-balfours-wrist-and-knee\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles were concerned about Balfour&#8217;s wrist and knee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5913\" alt=\"grantbalfour\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/grantbalfour.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/grantbalfour.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/grantbalfour-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Baltimore Orioles backed out of a two-year deal with reliever Grant Balfour earlier this offseason.<\/p>\n<p>It was initially believed that the Orioles backed out of the deal over concerns with Balfour&#8217;s shoulder. Buster Onley hears from sources that the Orioles were concerned about the right handers wrist and knee.<\/p>\n<p>Balfour has received only scant interest since the deal fell about and the Orioles appear willing to try in house options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Baltimore Orioles backed out of a two-year deal with reliever Grant Balfour earlier this offseason. It was initially believed that the Orioles backed out of the deal over concerns with Balfour&#8217;s shoulder. Buster Onley hears from sources that the Orioles were concerned about the right handers wrist and knee. Balfour has received only scant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[9,570,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-baltimore-orioles","9":"tag-grant-balfour","10":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5912","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=5912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5912"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}