{"id":105332,"date":"2016-08-05T14:00:36","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T19:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=105332"},"modified":"2016-08-05T14:54:22","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T19:54:22","slug":"yanks-tex-to-retire-end-of-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=105332","title":{"rendered":"Yanks &#8220;Tex&#8221; to retire, end of this season"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-105333\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/250px-Mark_Teixeira_basepaths_2011-244x300.jpg\" alt=\"250px-Mark_Teixeira_basepaths_2011\" width=\"244\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/250px-Mark_Teixeira_basepaths_2011-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/250px-Mark_Teixeira_basepaths_2011-143x175.jpg 143w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/250px-Mark_Teixeira_basepaths_2011.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/>NEW YORK (AP) \u0080\u0094 Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira says he plans to retire at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Slowed by injuries, the 36-year-old switch-hitting first baseman is batting .198 with 10 homers and 27 RBIs. A three-time All-Star and five-time Gold Glove winner, he is in the final season of a $180 million, eight-year contract. His 404 home runs are fifth among switch-hitters, trailing only Mickey Mantle (536), Eddie Murray (504), Chipper Jones (468) and Carlos Beltran (415).<\/p>\n<p>Greg Bird, a 23-year-old who missed this season following shoulder surgery, is projected by the Yankees as Teixeira&#8217;s successor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u0080\u0094 Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira says he plans to retire at the end of the season. Slowed by injuries, the 36-year-old switch-hitting first baseman is batting .198 with 10 homers and 27 RBIs. A three-time All-Star and five-time Gold Glove winner, he is in the final [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":105334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105335,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105332\/revisions\/105335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/105334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}