{"id":1284,"date":"2016-05-04T19:30:50","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T00:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=1284"},"modified":"2016-05-04T19:30:50","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T00:30:50","slug":"a-good-tough-rookie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=1284","title":{"rendered":"A Good Tough Rookie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I received a baseball signed by Andrew\u00a0Benintendi. \u00a0Andrew is tearing up the minor leagues but what makes this baseball special is Andrew RARELY signs for anyone and says his agent told him not to sign on the sweetspot. \u00a0I paid more than normal for the baseball because of that. \u00a0I kept thinking that if I had the opportunity to get Bryce Harper at this price when he was in the same level of the minors as Andrew I would jump on it. \u00a0At least I can mark off Benintendi from my baseball want list now. \u00a0I purchased it from Brian M (morells86 on SCN) who had a half dozen signed via some special relationship with Andrew. \u00a0I am very pleased.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I received a baseball signed by Andrew\u00a0Benintendi. \u00a0Andrew is tearing up the minor leagues but what makes this baseball special is Andrew RARELY signs for anyone and says his agent told him not to sign on the sweetspot. \u00a0I paid more than normal for the baseball because of that. \u00a0I kept thinking that if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=1284\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Good Tough Rookie&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseballs","category-bought"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}