{"id":967,"date":"2012-12-23T00:17:46","date_gmt":"2012-12-23T05:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=967"},"modified":"2012-12-23T00:38:17","modified_gmt":"2012-12-23T05:38:17","slug":"former-mlb-player-ryan-freel-commits-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2012\/12\/23\/former-mlb-player-ryan-freel-commits-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Former MLB player Ryan Freel commits suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-968\" alt=\"ryanfreel\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/ryanfreel.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/ryanfreel.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/ryanfreel-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once a well known utility player, Ryan Freel has committed suicide. Freel, 36, played in the big leagues from 2001-2009 and compiled a .268 average and 143 stolen bases.<\/p>\n<p>Freel&#8217;s death was first reported late Saturday afternoon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstcoastnews.com\/topstories\/article\/288484\/483\/Former-Big-Leaguer-from-Jax-Ryan-Freel-Dead-at-36\" target=\"_blank\">by First Coast News<\/a> in Freel&#8217;s hometown, Jacksonville, Fla. Freel reportedly died of a self-inflicted shotgun blast.<\/p>\n<p>The most memorable time of Freel&#8217;s big league career came during his six seasons with the Cincinnati Reds.<\/p>\n<p>He is survived by his wife Christie and his daughter Ava.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once a well known utility player, Ryan Freel has committed suicide. Freel, 36, played in the big leagues from 2001-2009 and compiled a .268 average and 143 stolen bases. Freel&#8217;s death was first reported late Saturday afternoon by First Coast News in Freel&#8217;s hometown, Jacksonville, Fla. Freel reportedly died of a self-inflicted shotgun blast. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-967","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\/967","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=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}