{"id":134,"date":"2005-04-05T15:01:14","date_gmt":"2005-04-05T22:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stardel.com\/eg\/?p=134"},"modified":"2005-04-05T15:01:14","modified_gmt":"2005-04-05T22:01:14","slug":"the-season-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2005\/04\/the-season-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"The Season Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, I started OK on Sunday with Randy Johnson winning.<\/p>\n

I replaced Quiroz with Josh Bard<\/a>, a back-up catcher for Cleveland, and Ken Harvey with Travis Lee<\/a>, starting first baseman for Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n

Why is a starting firstbaseman still available after the draft, you ask? Because he plays for Tampa Bay. And he was out for most of 2004 with a bad shoulder and it is always questionable whether an average player can make it back after sitting out for a season. (People always seem to make allowances for the really good players to come back after an injured season. People are still making allowances for Ken Griffey Jr<\/a>, even after 4-5 years of injured seasons. Sometimes you just can’t come back from an injury without aggravating it even more. )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, I started OK on Sunday with Randy Johnson winning. I replaced Quiroz with Josh Bard, a back-up catcher for Cleveland, and Ken Harvey with Travis Lee, starting first baseman for Tampa Bay. Why is a starting firstbaseman still available after the draft, you ask? Because he plays for Tampa Bay. And he was out … Continue reading The Season Begins<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NpF-2a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}