{"id":516,"date":"2010-02-27T18:33:04","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T22:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/?p=516"},"modified":"2010-02-27T18:33:04","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T22:33:04","slug":"aurilia-close-to-retiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2010\/02\/27\/aurilia-close-to-retiring\/","title":{"rendered":"Aurilia close to retiring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been over<a href=\"http:\/\/view.picapp.com\/default.aspx?iid=3902710&amp;term=%5c%22rich+aurilia\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 0pt none\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.picapp.com\/ftp\/Images\/0\/5\/7\/2\/San_Francisco_Giants_884e.jpg?adImageId=10798948&amp;imageId=3902710\" border=\"0\" alt=\"San Francisco Giants Photo Day\" width=\"234\" height=\"156\" \/><\/a> ten years since Rich Aurilia was one of the best shortstops in baseball. Now 38 years of age the veteran of 15 major league seasons may retire following a season in which he hit just .213\/.256\/.279 with two homers and 16 RBI while battling an ankle injury.<\/p>\n<p>While Aurilia says he is still actively seeking work, he told Jeff Fletcher of AOL Fanhouse that he may be calling it a career as he&#8217;s yet to even receive an invite to spring training.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 15 years he&#8217;s spent in the majors 12 of them came as a member of the San Fransico Giants.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being an above average shortstop<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:right;margin-left:5px\"><\/div>\n<p>from much of his career he&#8217;s pretty much limited to playing first or third base or if a team was really desperate second base.<\/p>\n<p>If Aurilia does opt to retire I would venture to guess that the Giants would be interested in bringing him back with a role inside the organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been over ten years since Rich Aurilia was one of the best shortstops in baseball. Now 38 years of age the veteran of 15 major league seasons may retire following a season in which he hit just .213\/.256\/.279 with two homers and 16 RBI while battling an ankle injury. While Aurilia says he is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[59,531],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","tag-baseball","tag-rich-aurilia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}