{"id":4347,"date":"2012-09-21T15:47:04","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T20:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=4347"},"modified":"2012-09-21T15:47:04","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T20:47:04","slug":"melky-cabrera-requests-disqualification-from-batting-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=4347","title":{"rendered":"Melky Cabrera Requests Disqualification From Batting Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/APnatioalBluel.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1137\" title=\"APnatioalBluel\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/APnatioalBluel-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 NEW YORK (AP) &#8211; Melky Cabrera has been disqualified from the National League batting title at his own request.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Major League Baseball and the players&#8217; association said Friday that they agreed to change the rule governing the individual batting, slugging and on-base percentage champions for this season.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Serving a 50-game suspension, the San Francisco Giants slugger<br \/>\nentered Friday with a league-leading .346 average, seven points<br \/>\nahead of Pittsburgh&#8217;s Andrew McCutchen.<\/p>\n<p>Cabrera was suspended Aug. 15 for a positive test for testosterone.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 MLB could not unilaterally disqualify Cabrera, needing an<br \/>\nagreement from the union to alter the rules.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cabrera has 501 plate appearances, one fewer than the required<br \/>\namount for the batting title if the Giants play 162 games.<\/p>\n<p>But he would win the title if an extra hitless at-bat is added to his<br \/>\naverage and it remains higher than that of any other qualifying<br \/>\nplayer.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 With the rule change, that no longer applies to a player who<br \/>\nserved a drug suspension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 NEW YORK (AP) &#8211; Melky Cabrera has been disqualified from the National League batting title at his own request. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Major League Baseball and the players&#8217; association said Friday that they agreed to change the rule governing the individual batting, slugging and on-base percentage champions for this season. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4347","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=4347"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4349,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4347\/revisions\/4349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}