{"id":386715,"date":"2025-10-18T06:15:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T06:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/386715\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T06:15:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T06:15:14","slug":"red-sox-legend-is-ready-to-return-to-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/386715\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox legend is ready to return to the game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"2I7KLF2J5BDSPDNVNGNBDDZ5P4\">Red Sox legend Manny Ramirez wants to return to Major League Baseball.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"Q25P4OPC5JF65AHTGTEHL5HREA\">As a hitting coach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"SPX5RPXDMZBEDA22YZGGINHHN4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jonheyman\/status\/1978893299298558072?s=46\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jonheyman\/status\/1978893299298558072?s=46\">Per New York Post MLB insider Jon Heyman<\/a> on Thursday: \u201cManny Ramirez is getting word out to all 30 teams he\u2019d love to serve as an MLB hitting coach.\u201c<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"NKA46B6LYFC23LYWAGJGYI4LR4\">\u201cHe wants to bring his greatness to teach the young guys,\u201d his agent Hector Zepeda said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"AEFTKGRTBVAWDD4IHJJUCRSEGQ\">Ramirez hit 555 career homers and posted a .312 batting average with a .996 OPS over 19 seasons. Ramirez twice tested positive for banned performance-enhancing substances, the latter in 2011, when he retired from MLB rather than serve a suspension. After his ban was later reduced, Ramirez attempted several minor league comebacks in the years that followed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"V4D6FKUC3NFMXG5OKZ5GZ4KQSI\">Ramirez, 53, is a 12-time All-Star and two-time World Series champion (with Boston).<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"KQH5SQMP5JAMRLB34KC33DJD6A\">He also played for Cleveland, the Dodgers, White Sox and Rays.<\/p>\n<p>If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Red Sox legend Manny Ramirez wants to return to Major League Baseball. As a hitting coach. Per New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2375],"tags":[5,141,48,2542,4,89,2543],"class_list":{"0":"post-386715","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-red-sox","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-boston","10":"tag-boston-red-sox","11":"tag-bostonredsox","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-red-sox","14":"tag-redsox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115393706320055603","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386715","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=386715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}