{"id":1894,"date":"2010-11-16T16:24:45","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T22:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=1894"},"modified":"2010-11-19T12:11:15","modified_gmt":"2010-11-19T18:11:15","slug":"justin-upton-takes-batting-practice-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1894","title":{"rendered":"Justin Upton Takes Batting Practice (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Justin-Upton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1952\" title=\"Justin Upton\" src=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Justin-Upton-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Justin-Upton-232x300.jpg 232w, http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Justin-Upton.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, <a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.fanhouse.com\/2010\/11\/16\/kevin-towers-diamondbacks-will-listen-to-offers-on-justin-upton\/?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">rumors<\/a> began to circulate regarding <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/u\/uptonju01.shtml?utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_campaign=Linker\">Justin  Upton<\/a><\/strong> and the Arizona Diamondbacks willingness to hear offers for their right fielder.\u00a0 Thus far, the teams that have expressed an interest in the 23-year old include the Boston Red Sox, Atlanta Braves, and as of a few minutes ago, the New York Yankees.\u00a0 Prior to the start of the 2010 season, Upton &#8212; who, on The Golden Sombrero, is commonly referred to as JUpton &#8212; signed a 6-year\/$50 mil deal with the Diamondbacks that will make him a free agent after the 2015 season.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, he posted a .799 OPS that included 27 doubles, 17 home runs and 69 RBI, while playing in 133 games.\u00a0 There are very few players in all of baseball who possess the strength and bat control that Upton does, and I expect that nearly every team will inquire about his availability.\u00a0 Here is a video of him taking batting practice during Spring Training in 2010:<\/p>\n<p><center><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Wt-ARu1qIt4?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Wt-ARu1qIt4?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, rumors began to circulate regarding Justin Upton and the Arizona Diamondbacks willingness to hear offers for their right fielder.\u00a0 Thus far, the teams that have expressed an interest in the 23-year old include the Boston Red Sox, Atlanta Braves, and as of a few minutes ago, the New York Yankees.\u00a0 Prior to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1300,6,16,11,13,14,775],"tags":[509,589,620,558,1297,58,1299,71,1298],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1894"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1961,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894\/revisions\/1961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}