{"id":6404,"date":"2014-02-16T09:52:29","date_gmt":"2014-02-16T14:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6404"},"modified":"2014-02-16T09:52:29","modified_gmt":"2014-02-16T14:52:29","slug":"red-sox-ready-to-move-on-from-stephen-drew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/02\/16\/red-sox-ready-to-move-on-from-stephen-drew\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox ready to move on from Stephen Drew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6267\" alt=\"MLB: Boston Red Sox at Detroit Tigers\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/stephendrew.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/stephendrew.jpg 640w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/stephendrew-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/stephendrew-85x54.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Boston Red Sox are ready to move on from Stephen Drew. While the 30-year-old shortstop remains on the open market, the Red Sox do not appear willing to improve their one year offer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the one thing that we don\u2019t want is a lingering what-if if Stephen is still out there,\u201d said manager John Farrell said, via the <a href=\"http:\/\/bostonherald.com\/sports\/red_sox_mlb\/boston_red_sox\/2014\/02\/notebook_no_sign_of_stephen_drew_deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Boston Herald<\/a>. \u201cI think in all fairness to our guys, our clubhouse, guys that would be affected if he were to be brought in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The longer Drew remains on the market the less likely he is to get the three year contract he reportedly desires.\u00a0Rookie Xander Bogaerts is giving the Red Sox the ability to move on from Drew\u00a0who hit .253\/.333\/.443 with 13 homeruns and 67 RBI across 124 games last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Red Sox are ready to move on from Stephen Drew. While the 30-year-old shortstop remains on the open market, the Red Sox do not appear willing to improve their one year offer. \u201cI think the one thing that we don\u2019t want is a lingering what-if if Stephen is still out there,\u201d said manager [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[27,503,501,335],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-6404","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-boston-red-sox","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-stephen-drew"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6404","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=6404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6404"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}