{"id":14403,"date":"2015-05-02T14:23:35","date_gmt":"2015-05-02T21:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=14403"},"modified":"2015-05-01T14:34:44","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T21:34:44","slug":"lastings-milledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2015\/05\/lastings-milledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Lastings Milledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14404\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/136_9674-RAW-yakult-swallows-lastings-milledge.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14404\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/136_9674-RAW-yakult-swallows-lastings-milledge-800x544.jpg\" alt=\"yakult swallows lastings milledge\" width=\"800\" height=\"544\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/136_9674-RAW-yakult-swallows-lastings-milledge-800x544.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/136_9674-RAW-yakult-swallows-lastings-milledge-250x170.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/136_9674-RAW-yakult-swallows-lastings-milledge.jpg 1911w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14404\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lastings Milledge of the Yakult Swallows<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The &#8220;best 16-year old player&#8221; in 2001 is currently working to come back from a couple of injury-plagued seasons in Japan. He has played in just 4 of the Swallow&#8217;s 28 games so far this year. <\/p>\n<p>Milledge&#8217;s best year as a pro came in 2012 for the Swallows when he hit .300 with 21 home runs. Today&#8217;s photo comes from 2013, the first year of a three-year $4.4 million contract for Lastings which has produced only 17 home runs so far and a batting average below .250 for <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/tag\/yakult-swallows\/>Yakult<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;best 16-year old player&#8221; in 2001 is currently working to come back from a couple of injury-plagued seasons in Japan. He has played in just 4 of the Swallow&#8217;s 28 games so far this year. Milledge&#8217;s best year as a pro came in 2012 for the Swallows when he hit .300 with 21 home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[82,419,429,423,501],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14403"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14408,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14403\/revisions\/14408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}