{"id":8306,"date":"2014-06-23T11:40:51","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T15:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8306"},"modified":"2014-06-23T11:42:39","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T15:42:39","slug":"mets-deny-reports-that-chris-young-will-be-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/06\/23\/mets-deny-reports-that-chris-young-will-be-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets deny reports that Chris Young will be released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/06\/chrisyoung.jpg\" alt=\"chrisyoung\" width=\"594\" height=\"453\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/06\/chrisyoung.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/06\/chrisyoung-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe New York Mets are not planning to release outfielder Chris Young reports Mike Puma of the New York Post.<\/p>\n<p>Young, 30, is playing on a one-year deal worth $7.25 million this season but is hitting just .201\/.284\/.313 in 58 games.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Mets official answered a blunt &quot;no&quot; when I asked if dumping Chris Young was a possibility.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mike Puma (@NYPost_Mets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYPost_Mets\/statuses\/481094021402480640\">June 23, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Previously it had been reported that Young would be cut to make room for a returning Juan Lagares.<\/p>\n<p>Even if Young stays on the roster for the time being its clear his days with the Mets are numbered unless he starts to produce in a hurry. It has been a sharp decline for Young who was an All-Star in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Mets are not planning to release outfielder Chris Young reports Mike Puma of the New York Post. Young, 30, is playing on a one-year deal worth $7.25 million this season but is hitting just .201\/.284\/.313 in 58 games. Mets official answered a blunt &quot;no&quot; when I asked if dumping Chris Young was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-8306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8306","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=8306"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8310,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8306\/revisions\/8310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8306"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}