{"id":6891,"date":"2014-03-27T11:39:19","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T15:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6891"},"modified":"2014-03-27T11:39:19","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T15:39:19","slug":"bobby-abreu-given-release-after-failing-to-win-roster-spot-with-phillies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/03\/27\/bobby-abreu-given-release-after-failing-to-win-roster-spot-with-phillies\/","title":{"rendered":"Bobby Abreu given release after failing to win roster spot with Phillies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6013\" alt=\"bobbyabreu\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/bobbyabreu.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/bobbyabreu.jpg 600w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/bobbyabreu-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Philadelphia Phillies have given outfielder Bobby Abreu his release after he failed to win a roster spot with the team for Opening Day.<\/p>\n<p>Abreu, 40, signed on with the Phillies in January hoping to compete for a spot on the teams bench after not playing during the 2013 season.<\/p>\n<p>Recently Abreu had dealt with some shoulder soreness this spring. For the spring he hit .244\/.404\/.366 in 17 games.<\/p>\n<p>With Abreu unable to play the field his chances to return to the majors are slim. He will presumably look for a job in the American League but that does not figure to be an easy task.<\/p>\n<p>A two-time All-Star, Abreu is a career .292\/.396\/.477 hitter with 287 home runs, 1349 RBI, 1441 runs scored and 399 stolen bases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philadelphia Phillies have given outfielder Bobby Abreu his release after he failed to win a roster spot with the team for Opening Day. Abreu, 40, signed on with the Phillies in January hoping to compete for a spot on the teams bench after not playing during the 2013 season. Recently Abreu had dealt with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[611,501,109],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-6891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-bobby-abreu","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-philadelphia-phillies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6891","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=6891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6892,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6891\/revisions\/6892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6891"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}