{"id":180836,"date":"2025-07-16T15:05:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T15:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/180836\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T15:05:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T15:05:57","slug":"wednesday-morning-links-lone-star-ball-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/180836\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Morning Links &#8211; Lone Star Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"q16pwk\">Morning, all!<\/p>\n<p id=\"5Vi8S6\">This article about the MLB and MLBPA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/2025\/07\/15\/mlb-mlbpa-could-let-big-leaguers-play-in-2028-olympics-during-extended-all-star-break\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">discussing<\/a> allowing big leaguers to play in the Olympics is primarily interesting to me because Tony Clark has a righteous beard.<\/p>\n<p id=\"9s9OWB\">Are college pitchers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/2025\/07\/14\/injured-pitchers-rangers-say-mlb-draft-strategy-stems-from-trust-in-teams-support-system\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recovering<\/a> from Tommy John surgery the new market inefficiency?<\/p>\n<p id=\"1Utx0C\">Evan Grants <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/2025\/07\/15\/texas-rangers-first-half-in-review-difficult-questions-loom-for-jacob-degrom-key-bats\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">says<\/a> the two big first half storylines were the flacid offense and Jacob deGrom <\/p>\n<p id=\"mJbNwp\">The NL won the All Star <a href=\"https:\/\/go.redirectingat.com?id=66960X1516590&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mlb.com%2Frangers%2Fnews%2Fnl-wins-2025-mlb-all-star-game-decided-by-derby-like-swing-off&amp;referrer=sbnation.com&amp;sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lonestarball.com%2F2025%2F7%2F16%2F24468659%2Fwednesday-morning-news-rumors-links\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" has-subtag=\"true\" data-cdata=\"{\" rewritten_url=\"\">game<\/a> in a home run derby tie breaker, securing only their second win in twelve years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Morning, all! This article about the MLB and MLBPA discussing allowing big leaguers to play in the Olympics&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2393],"tags":[2229,5,181,7002,3243,4,3248,149,3244,1567,69,3240,1372],"class_list":{"0":"post-180836","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas-rangers","8":"tag-ball","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-front-page","11":"tag-links","12":"tag-lone","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-morning","15":"tag-rangers","16":"tag-star","17":"tag-texas","18":"tag-texas-rangers","19":"tag-texasrangers","20":"tag-wednesday"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114863537110569653","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}