{"id":2320,"date":"2010-12-18T20:01:11","date_gmt":"2010-12-19T02:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=2320"},"modified":"2010-12-18T20:04:31","modified_gmt":"2010-12-19T02:04:31","slug":"jayson-werth-the-greatest-prep-player-in-illinois-history-prep-baseball-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2320","title":{"rendered":"Jayson Werth: the greatest prep player in Illinois history? (Prep Baseball Report)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/jayson-werth2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2321\" title=\"jayson-werth2\" src=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/jayson-werth2-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/jayson-werth2-300x185.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/jayson-werth2.jpg 615w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just over a week ago, the Washington Nationals and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/w\/werthja01.shtml?utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_campaign=Linker\">Jayson  Werth<\/a><\/strong> reached an agreement on a seven-year\/$126 million contract, making him one of the highest paid outfielders in baseball history.\u00a0 Even before the 2010 Major League regular season began, rumors were swirling regarding where the soon-to-be free agent might call home in 2011.\u00a0 In addition to an outstanding four-year career in Philadelphia that included a .885 OPS, 99 doubles, 120 home runs, 406 RBI, and 60 stolen bases, Werth\u2019s abundance of postseason experience made him one the most sought after free agent this off-season.\u00a0 Still, many forget that Werth is actually a product of Illinois, and frankly, I can understand why.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/prepbaseballreport.com\/Blogs\/TheGoldenSombrero\/tabid\/1135\/articleType\/ArticleView\/articleId\/1585\/Jayson-Werth-the-greatest-prep-player-in-Illinois-history.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading &#8216;Jayson Werth: the greatest prep player in Illinois history?&#8217; &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just over a week ago, the Washington Nationals and Jayson Werth reached an agreement on a seven-year\/$126 million contract, making him one of the highest paid outfielders in baseball history.\u00a0 Even before the 2010 Major League regular season began, rumors were swirling regarding where the soon-to-be free agent might call home in 2011.\u00a0 In addition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1300,8,6,16,9,11,13,14],"tags":[1529,1530,496,297,151],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2320"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2323,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320\/revisions\/2323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}