{"id":6493,"date":"2014-02-22T23:15:31","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T04:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6493"},"modified":"2014-02-22T23:15:31","modified_gmt":"2014-02-23T04:15:31","slug":"zack-greinke-not-excited-for-games-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/02\/22\/zack-greinke-not-excited-for-games-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Zack Greinke not excited for games in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6494\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6494\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6494\" alt=\"zackgreinke\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/zackgreinke.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/zackgreinke.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/zackgreinke-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6494\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Major League Baseball season begins in Australia this season. One player not excited about this is Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Zack Greinke.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would say there is absolutely zero excitement for it,&#8221; Greinke told <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/los-angeles\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/10502362\/zack-greinke-los-angeles-dodgers-not-excited-potential-start-australia\">ESPNLosAngeles.com<\/a>. &#8220;There just isn&#8217;t any excitement to it. I can&#8217;t think of one reason to be excited for it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One of the biggest problems players have expressed in games held overseas is the schedule. The Dodgers in an effort to hold ace Clayton Kershaw&#8217;s innings down are considering keeping him off the mound in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a baseball thing. It&#8217;s an ownership thing, spreading stuff around,&#8221; Greinke said. &#8220;That&#8217;s what it&#8217;s for and it&#8217;s for the greater good of baseball.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks will break from spring training on March 16 and play two games in Australia on March 22 and 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Major League Baseball season begins in Australia this season. One player not excited about this is Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Zack Greinke. &#8220;I would say there is absolutely zero excitement for it,&#8221; Greinke told ESPNLosAngeles.com. &#8220;There just isn&#8217;t any excitement to it. I can&#8217;t think of one reason to be excited for it.&#8221; One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,135,501,213],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-6493","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-zack-greinke"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6493","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=6493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6493"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}