{"id":62,"date":"2016-08-14T23:23:06","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T23:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonbaseball.com\/?p=62"},"modified":"2017-10-25T13:49:09","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T17:49:09","slug":"prince-fielders-playing-career-is-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2016\/08\/14\/prince-fielders-playing-career-is-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Fielder\u2019s Playing Career Is Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The <strong>Texas Rangers<\/strong> announced on Wednesday in a press conference that veteran slugger <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/f\/fieldpr01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prince Fielder<\/a><\/strong>, 32, will be forced to end his playing career due to ongoing neck problems.\u00a0 Fielder experienced serious neck surgery at the end of last month, his second in almost exactly two years.\u00a0 Fielder underwent a similar procedure in 2014, his first season with Texas.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\">Prince Fielder\u2019s Playing Career Is Over<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">Fielder, fighting back tears while addressing the media at <strong>Globe Life Park<\/strong>, stated that his family and his teammates are his biggest inspiration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWhen I told my kids they didn\u2019t even let me get down on myself,\u201d Fielder said. \u00a0\u201cThey were just like \u2018okay it will be alright dad, lets just play video games.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Fielder said doctors told him even before the surgery that they would not advise him to continue playing baseball. \u00a0He stated that the moment of truth came to him when he was unable to walk in a straight line during a medical test.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThe doctor told me just to walk in a straight line and I couldn\u2019t do it,\u201d he said. \u00a0\u201cI mean I could do it but there was way too much brain involved, my body couldn\u2019t do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This article was originally posted on our parent site, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\" target=\"_self\">Last Word on Sports<\/a>. It can be read in full at the site. We are now expanding, with a dedicated site for all your baseball analysis, news and opinion. So stay tuned to <a href=\"lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/\" target=\"_self\">Last Word on Baseball<\/a>, where we will bring you all of your favorite Last Word features, and much more, from now on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Rangers announced on Wednesday in a press conference that veteran slugger Prince Fielder, 32, will be forced to end his playing career due to ongoing neck problems.\u00a0 Fielder experienced serious neck surgery at the end of last month, his second in almost exactly two years.\u00a0 Fielder underwent a similar procedure in 2014, his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":63,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-rangers"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}