{"id":3633,"date":"2011-04-19T15:15:48","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T20:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=3633"},"modified":"2011-04-19T15:19:04","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T20:19:04","slug":"poll-which-speedsters-slow-start-is-the-most-concerning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/3633","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Which speedster&#8217;s slow start is more concerning?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/CrawfordBoSoxStruggles.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3634\" title=\"CrawfordBoSoxStruggles\" src=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/CrawfordBoSoxStruggles-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"355\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For as many hot starts as there have been across Major League Baseball, there have also been an alarming number of terrible starts.\u00a0 Considering that we are now two and a half weeks into the season, it may be time to borderline-panic with some players, or if you are big league or fantasy manager, at least begin to consider an alternative.\u00a0 For some players that may mean a trip to the minor leagues, while for others it may mean more days off and a possible platoon scenario.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I\u2019ve noticed thus far: several players known for their wheels simply aren\u2019t hitting, and more significantly, aren&#8217;t getting on base.\u00a0 So, I thought I\u2019d poll our readers to find out which speedster\u2019s slow start has been the most concerning: <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/gardnbr01.shtml?utm_source=direct&#038;utm_medium=linker&#038;utm_campaign=Linker\">Brett  Gardner<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/f\/figgich01.shtml?utm_source=direct&#038;utm_medium=linker&#038;utm_campaign=Linker\">Chone  Figgins<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/j\/jacksau01.shtml?utm_source=direct&#038;utm_medium=linker&#038;utm_campaign=Linker\">Austin  Jackson<\/a><\/strong>, or <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/crawfca02.shtml?utm_source=direct&#038;utm_medium=linker&#038;utm_campaign=Linker\">Carl  Crawford<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[poll id=&#8221;6&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For as many hot starts as there have been across Major League Baseball, there have also been an alarming number of terrible starts.\u00a0 Considering that we are now two and a half weeks into the season, it may be time to borderline-panic with some players, or if you are big league or fantasy manager, at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1300,6,16,11,13,1999,14],"tags":[174,2110,558,1928,147,1482,638,2134,71,574,2135],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3633"}],"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=3633"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3641,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3633\/revisions\/3641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}