{"id":2456,"date":"2011-01-04T10:24:14","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T16:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=2456"},"modified":"2011-01-04T10:24:14","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T16:24:14","slug":"the-golden-sombreros-top-50-prospects-48-aaron-hicks-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2456","title":{"rendered":"The Golden Sombrero&#8217;s Top 50 Prospects: #48 &#8211; Aaron Hicks (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/aaronhicks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2457\" title=\"aaronhicks\" src=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/aaronhicks-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"361\" height=\"259\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">#48 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/minors\/player.cgi?id=hicks-001aar\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Hicks<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 Minnesota Twins<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">OF<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">DOB: 10-2-89<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">ETA: 2013<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<!--more-->\n<\/p>\n<p>Hicks is an athletic outfielder with excellent plate discipline considering his age.  As a 20-year old in the Midwest League (A) the switch-hitter slashed .279\/.401\/.428 while stealing over 20 bases.  His 41 hits for extra bases are evidence of some power potential, and his arm plays at a plus, providing him the flexibility to slide from center to right as he climbs in the organization despite also possessing the speed and glove to man center.  Hicks has a chance to be a real 5-tooler with the plate discipline necessary to stay in the game for a decade or more if health permits.<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lKex7FoDfIY?fs=1&#038;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lKex7FoDfIY?fs=1&#038;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#48 Aaron Hicks \u2013 Minnesota Twins OF DOB: 10-2-89 ETA: 2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,1300,6,9,11,13,10,14,1616],"tags":[1621,688,1623,1622,3463],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2456"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2475,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456\/revisions\/2475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}