{"id":590,"date":"2007-11-12T22:46:19","date_gmt":"2007-11-13T04:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=590"},"modified":"2007-11-12T22:46:19","modified_gmt":"2007-11-13T04:46:19","slug":"bad-fas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=590","title":{"rendered":"Bad FA&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re in baseball hot stove season, so CNNSI has a list of the <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/multimedia\/photo_gallery\/0711\/mlb.worst.free.agent.contracts\/content.1.html\">worst<\/a> free agent signings of the last ten years.<\/p>\n<p>The things is that almost all of those deals were praised by the media at the time. And, with the exception of Albert Belle, every single one was blasted by Rob Neyer, Baseball Prospectus and every other &#8220;geekboy&#8221; analyst out there.<\/p>\n<p>Gee, it&#8217;s almost like they knew what they were talking about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re in baseball hot stove season, so CNNSI has a list of the worst free agent signings of the last ten years. The things is that almost all of those deals were praised by the media at the time. And, with the exception of Albert Belle, every single one was blasted by Rob Neyer, Baseball &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=590\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bad FA&#8217;s<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-9w","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}