{"id":9679,"date":"2014-12-13T18:48:55","date_gmt":"2014-12-13T23:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9679"},"modified":"2014-12-13T18:48:55","modified_gmt":"2014-12-13T23:48:55","slug":"phillies-attempted-to-trade-ryan-howard-to-orioles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/12\/13\/phillies-attempted-to-trade-ryan-howard-to-orioles\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies attempted to trade Ryan Howard to Orioles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_9344\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9344\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/ryanhoward.jpg\" alt=\"Getty Images\" width=\"594\" height=\"443\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/ryanhoward.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/ryanhoward-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9344\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Orioles remain interested in Phillies outfielder Marlon Byrd. They however are not as interested in first baseman Ryan Howard who the Phillies offered in a package for Byrd reports MASN.<\/p>\n<p>Howard still possesses some power in his swing with 23 home runs last season but produced juast a .223\/.310\/.380 line wit 190 strike outs across 152 games last season.<\/p>\n<p>Owed $50 million over the next two seasons (with a $10 million buyout in 2017) the Phillies would love to unload the now 35-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>After parting with Jimmy Rollins and with pitcher Cole Hamels on the trading block the Phillies are looking to blow things up heading into the 2015 season. Clearing Howard&#8217;s salary off the books would be a big step.<\/p>\n<p>Howard can block a trade to 20 teams but will not get 10-and-5 rights until May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Orioles remain interested in Phillies outfielder Marlon Byrd. They however are not as interested in first baseman Ryan Howard who the Phillies offered in a package for Byrd reports MASN. Howard still possesses some power in his swing with 23 home runs last season but produced juast a .223\/.310\/.380 line wit 190 strike outs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[895,122],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-philadelphia-phillies-baltimore-orioles","9":"tag-ryan-howard"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9679","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=9679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9680,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9679\/revisions\/9680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9679"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}