{"id":9110,"date":"2014-10-01T12:59:43","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T16:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9110"},"modified":"2014-10-01T12:59:43","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T16:59:43","slug":"lyle-overbay-99-9-percent-sure-he-will-retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/10\/01\/lyle-overbay-99-9-percent-sure-he-will-retire\/","title":{"rendered":"Lyle Overbay &#8220;99.9 percent sure&#8221; he will retire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/10\/lyleoverbay.jpg\" alt=\"lyleoverbay\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9111\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/10\/lyleoverbay.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/10\/lyleoverbay-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nLyle Overbay is pretty sure he is ready to call it a career. <\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old appeared on MLB Network Radio on Sirius XM Radio on Wednesday and said that he was &#8220;99.9 percent sure&#8221; that his playing days are over.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Overbay: I&#39;m 99.9 percent sure that I&#39;m going to call it a career, I&#39;m pretty close to 100 percent that I&#39;m going to retire <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Brewers?src=hash\">#Brewers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; MLB Network Radio (@MLBNetworkRadio) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLBNetworkRadio\/status\/517345003736023040\">October 1, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Given that Overay batted just .233\/.328\/.333 with four home runs and 28 RBI in 121 games this season it is hard to imagine him finding a spot on anyone&#8217;s roster in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>If this is the end of the road for Overbay he will finish his career with a .266 averge, 151 home runs and 1,355 hits over 14 big league seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lyle Overbay is pretty sure he is ready to call it a career. The 37-year-old appeared on MLB Network Radio on Sirius XM Radio on Wednesday and said that he was &#8220;99.9 percent sure&#8221; that his playing days are over. Overbay: I&#39;m 99.9 percent sure that I&#39;m going to call it a career, I&#39;m pretty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9110","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\/9110","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=9110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9112,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9110\/revisions\/9112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9110"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}