{"id":12,"date":"2017-02-11T21:29:45","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T21:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/brewcitybaseball\/?p=12"},"modified":"2017-02-24T23:14:29","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T23:14:29","slug":"spring-training-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/brewcitybaseball\/2017\/02\/11\/spring-training-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Training Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is almost that time of the year again, patiently waiting for the snow to melt and the umpire to yell &#8220;PLAY BALL.&#8221; \u00a0The count down calendar descending slower than dripping molasses. \u00a0The sour taste of venom is still fresh, the thought of sharing the same interstate (I-94) with the world series champion makes the commute that much worse. Hearing the &#8220;GO CUBS GO&#8221; song on repeat is like nails on the chalkboard all off season.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/brewcitybaseball\/files\/2017\/02\/download-2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/brewcitybaseball\/files\/2017\/02\/download-2.jpeg\" alt=\"download (2)\" width=\"276\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/brewcitybaseball\/files\/2017\/02\/download-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/brewcitybaseball\/files\/2017\/02\/download-1.jpeg\" alt=\"download (1)\" width=\"267\" height=\"189\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With just under two months until opening day 2017, this week the Milwaukee Brewers are headed to Phoenix, Arizona to conduct their spring training activities.\u00a0The pitchers and catchers have reported to camp embarking the unofficial kick-off to the 2017 pre-season. Familiar faces like Ryan Braun and Scooter Gennet\u00a0will be back in the blue and gold. With the absence of All-Star catcher, Johnathon Lucroy and closer Jermey Jefferess the crew will have to replace them for the upcoming season. The Young Brewers club offers a plethora of young talent across the board. Can former player and current manager Craig Counsell take these pieces and turn them into a championship caliber squad?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is almost that time of the year again, patiently waiting for the snow to melt and the umpire to yell &#8220;PLAY BALL.&#8221; \u00a0The count down calendar descending slower than dripping molasses. \u00a0The sour taste of venom is still fresh, the thought of sharing the same interstate (I-94) with the world series champion makes the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7248,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44381,366134],"tags":[496650,312836],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-milwaukee-brewers","category-spring-training","tag-preview","tag-spring-training-2017"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/brewcitybaseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/brewcitybaseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/brewcitybaseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/brewcitybaseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/brewcitybaseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/brewcitybaseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/brewcitybaseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/brewcitybaseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/brewcitybaseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/brewcitybaseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}