{"id":455,"date":"2008-06-08T21:16:54","date_gmt":"2008-06-08T20:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=455"},"modified":"2009-09-26T11:46:38","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T10:46:38","slug":"free-agency-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=455","title":{"rendered":"Free agency plans?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting little <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2008\/06\/ellis-still-wan.html#trackback\" target=\"_blank\">piece of news <\/a>picked up by MLB Trade Rumours.\u00c2\u00a0 The A&#8217;s Mark Ellis is quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle as saying that he would consider staying with Oakland rather than testing the lucrative free agent market.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure A&#8217;s fans all remember Barry Zito&#8217;s &#8220;it&#8217;s not the money, I want to join a winner&#8221; comments before he decided that it <em>was<\/em> mostly about the money after all and signed on with the Giants.\u00c2\u00a0 One to keep an eye on, at least, as it illustrates the point that each player ultimately has to make up his own mind on what&#8217;s best for him and his family.\u00c2\u00a0 Much as\u00c2\u00a0I joke about Zito&#8217;s contract, you can hardly\u00c2\u00a0blame him for signing it.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0He weighed up his options and did what he thought was best at the time.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe he regrets it now?\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe he doesn&#8217;t?\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>EDIT:<\/strong> Ellis hit a walk-off grand slam against the Angels last night.\u00c2\u00a0 Sign him up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting little piece of news picked up by MLB Trade Rumours.\u00c2\u00a0 The A&#8217;s Mark Ellis is quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle as saying that he would consider staying with Oakland rather than testing the lucrative free agent market.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure A&#8217;s fans all remember Barry Zito&#8217;s &#8220;it&#8217;s not the money, I want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[553],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb-2","tag-mlb-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4592,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions\/4592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}