{"id":8534,"date":"2014-07-14T12:32:34","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T16:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8534"},"modified":"2014-07-14T12:32:34","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T16:32:34","slug":"royals-interested-in-red-sox-outfielder-jonny-gomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/07\/14\/royals-interested-in-red-sox-outfielder-jonny-gomes\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals interested in Red Sox outfielder Jonny Gomes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/jonnygomes.jpg\" alt=\"jonnygomes\" width=\"594\" height=\"414\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/jonnygomes.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/jonnygomes-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Kansas City Royal are looking to add a few pieces as the trade deadline approaches. One player the Royals are showing interst in is Boston outfielder Jonny Gomez reports ESPN&#8217;s Jerry Crasnick.<\/p>\n<p>Gomes, 33, is hitting just .234 with five home runs and 30 RBI this season in 67 games.<\/p>\n<p>Known for his ability to hit against left handers, the Royals could add Gomes as a valuable platoon piece. He owns a .266\/.351\/.461 line against left-handed pitchers in his career.<\/p>\n<p>At 48-46 the Royals are 6.5 games behind Detroit in the AL Central but see themselves as a contender for one of the AL&#8217;s Wild Card spots. Boston is nine games under .500 on the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kansas City Royal are looking to add a few pieces as the trade deadline approaches. One player the Royals are showing interst in is Boston outfielder Jonny Gomez reports ESPN&#8217;s Jerry Crasnick. Gomes, 33, is hitting just .234 with five home runs and 30 RBI this season in 67 games. Known for his ability [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[27,503,634,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-8534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-front","tag-jonny-gomes","tag-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8534","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=8534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8535,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8534\/revisions\/8535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8534"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}