Surprise, AZ (SportsNetwork.com) – Veteran reliever Guillermo Mota announced his retirement on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Mota hadn’t pitched in the majors since 2012, but the right-hander signed a minor-league contract with the Kansas City Royals in January.<\/p>\n
“I’ve always admired Guillermo as a person and a player. I’d like to thank him,” Royals general manager Dayton Moore said in a statement. “However, in talking with him, he indicated that he wanted to spend more time with his family.”<\/p>\n
The 40-year-old played for seven major league teams during his 14-year career. He was 39-45 with a 3.94 earned run average in 743 relief appearances for the Montreal Expos, Los Angeles Dodgers, Florida Marlins, Cleveland Indians, New York Mets, Milwaukee Brewers and San Francisco Giants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Surprise, AZ (SportsNetwork.com) – Veteran reliever Guillermo Mota announced his retirement on Sunday. Mota hadn’t pitched in the majors since 2012, but the right-hander signed a minor-league contract with the Kansas City Royals in January. “I’ve always admired Guillermo as a person and a player. I’d like to thank him,” Royals general manager Dayton Moore […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[110,216,217],"class_list":["post-15286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-royals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}