{"id":49,"date":"2007-12-03T19:01:19","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T00:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=49"},"modified":"2007-12-03T19:01:19","modified_gmt":"2007-12-04T00:01:19","slug":"bsb-exclusive-rowands-house-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"BSB Exclusive: Rowand&#8217;s House for Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"right\" width=\"269\" src=\"http:\/\/philsox.spieles.com\/images\/rowand2.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"rowand 3\" height=\"500\" style=\"width: 239px; height: 405px\" \/>Thanks to Jason Cimorelli, <em>BroadStreetBelievers <\/em>has obtained inside information that free-agent center fielder Aaron Rowand&#8217;s house, in suburban Chadds Ford, PA, has been put on the market.\u00a0 This doesn&#8217;t come as a surprise to anyone, but it is further evidence that Rowand will not be back with the Phillies next season.\u00a0 On Saturday, the Phillies <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/news\/article.jsp?ymd=20071202&amp;content_id=2315218&amp;vkey=hotstove2007&amp;fext=.jsp\" title=\"rowand arbitration\">offered Rowand arbitration<\/a>, but that was basically a procedural move because Rowand is highly unlikely to accept it considering the long-term offers he is expected to receive.\u00a0 By offering the arbitration, the Phillies will\u00a0receive two compensatory draft picks if Rowand signs with another team because he is a Type A free agent.<\/p>\n<p>The Dodgers, Rangers, and White Sox are the main teams rumored to be interested in Rowand, who is seeking a five-year deal.\u00a0 However,\u00a0the free-agent market\u00a0continues to be held up by the ongoing\u00a0Johan Santana and Miguel Cabrera trade negotiations.\u00a0 Rowand is probably\u00a0hoping that the Yankees will get into the bidding for his services if they\u00a0trade\u00a0Melky Cabrera to the Twins.\u00a0 There have been reports that the Yankees plan to move Johnny Damon\u00a0back to center if they\u00a0trade Cabrera, but that remains to be seen.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Jason Cimorelli, BroadStreetBelievers has obtained inside information that free-agent center fielder Aaron Rowand&#8217;s house, in suburban Chadds Ford, PA, has been put on the market.\u00a0 This doesn&#8217;t come as a surprise to anyone, but it is further evidence &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=49\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[15,77,55,16],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-aaron-rowand","tag-bsb-exclusive","tag-free-agency","tag-phillies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}