{"id":77,"date":"2010-12-09T13:38:19","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T20:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theloungeisback.wordpress.com\/?p=77"},"modified":"2010-12-09T13:38:19","modified_gmt":"2010-12-09T20:38:19","slug":"boston-red-sox-getting-carl-crawford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"Boston Red Sox getting Carl Crawford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theloungeisback.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/carl-crawford-ap2.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/theloungeisback.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/carl-crawford-ap2.jpg?w=234&#038;resize=234%2C300\" alt=\"\" title=\"carl-crawford-ap2\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-78\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWoo, hoo, what an amazing offseason for the Red Sox, maybe their best offseason since they got Josh Beckett and Mike Lowell. Now the Red Sox, after looking like they were out of the running, got <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2010\/writers\/tom_verducci\/12\/09\/five.cuts.thursday\/index.html?eref=sihp\">Carl Crawford<\/a> from the Tampa Bay Evil Rays for 7 years, $142 million.<br \/>\nCarl Crawford is a career .296 hitter (he hit .307 last year) and has <em>averaged<\/em> 50 stolen bases a year over the last eight years. He even hits 15 to 20 home runs a year. An awesome player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woo, hoo, what an amazing offseason for the Red Sox, maybe their best offseason since they got Josh Beckett and Mike Lowell. Now the Red Sox, after looking like they were out of the running, got Carl Crawford from the Tampa Bay Evil Rays for 7 years, $142 million. Carl Crawford is a career .296 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=77\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Boston Red Sox getting Carl Crawford<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hpEa-1f","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":932,"url":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=932","url_meta":{"origin":77,"position":0},"title":"Biggest trade in history? 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