{"id":927463,"date":"2020-03-18T23:15:35","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T03:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=927463"},"modified":"2020-03-18T23:15:35","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T03:15:35","slug":"ap-sources-mlb-could-skip-draft-service-time-big-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=927463","title":{"rendered":"AP sources: MLB could skip draft; service time big issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/ap-sources-mlb-could-skip-draft-service-time-big-issue\/19019316\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/baseball\/mlb\/2020\/03\/18\/19019317\/5e72be891aeac-media_ac4c7044f41e405a847625523e89278f-DMID1-5m7g9bntf-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"Virus_Outbreak_Baseball_50084\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Major League Baseball is considering skipping its amateur draft this year and putting off the next international signing period as a way to preserve cash while games are affected by the new coronavirus, people familiar with the discussions told The Associated Press. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/ap-sources-mlb-could-skip-draft-service-time-big-issue\/19019316\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/ap-sources-mlb-could-skip-draft-service-time-big-issue\/19019316\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"AP sources: MLB could skip draft; service time big issue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major League Baseball is considering skipping its amateur draft this year and putting off the next international signing period as a way to preserve cash while&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-927463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=927463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=927463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=927463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=927463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}