{"id":7872,"date":"2013-11-12T17:09:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T17:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/blue-jays-announce-derosa-retirement\/"},"modified":"2013-11-12T17:09:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T17:09:00","slug":"blue-jays-announce-derosa-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/blue-jays-announce-derosa-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays announce DeRosa retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto, ON (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Toronto Blue Jays announced on Tuesday that infielder Mark DeRosa has decided to retire after 16 major-league seasons.<\/p>\n<p>DeRosa came to the Jays thanks to a one-year, $750,000 contract, with a club option for 2014, signed this past January. He contributed a .235 average, seven home runs, 12 doubles and 36 RBI to the AL East&#8217;s last-place club in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>In 1,241 career games with the Braves (1998-2004), Rangers (2005-06), Cubs (2007-08), Indians (2009), Cardinals (2009), Giants (2010-11), Nationals (2012) and Blue Jays, the New Jersey native and Penn product posted a .268 average with 100 home runs, 196 doubles and 494 RBI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto, ON (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Toronto Blue Jays announced on Tuesday that infielder Mark DeRosa has decided to retire after 16 major-league seasons. DeRosa came to the Jays thanks to a one-year, $750,000 contract, with a club option for 2014, signed this past January. He contributed a .235 average, seven home runs, 12 doubles and [&hellip;]<\/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":[116,115,114],"class_list":["post-7872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-blue-jays","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-blue-jays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7872","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=7872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}