{"id":1962,"date":"2010-01-22T23:48:44","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T04:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2010\/01\/22\/so-i-guess-he-is-being-transferred-to-the-padres-2\/"},"modified":"2010-01-22T23:48:44","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T04:48:44","slug":"so-i-guess-he-is-being-transferred-to-the-padres-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2010\/01\/so-i-guess-he-is-being-transferred-to-the-padres-2\/","title":{"rendered":"So I guess he is being transferred to the Padres?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>As a top prospect for the Oakland Athletics, outfielder Grant Desme might&#8217;ve gotten the call every minor leaguer wants this spring.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, he believed he had another, higher calling.<\/p>\n<p>Desme announced Friday that he was leaving baseball to enter the priesthood, walking away after a breakout season in which he became MVP of the Arizona Fall League.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was doing well at ball. But I really had to get down to the bottom of things,&#8221; the 23-year-old Desme said. &#8220;I wasn&#8217;t at peace with where I was at.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A lifelong Catholic, Desme thought about becoming a priest for about a year and a half. He kept his path quiet within the sports world, and his plan to enter a seminary this summer startled the A&#8217;s when he told them Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>General manager Billy Beane &#8220;was understanding and supportive,&#8221; Desme said, but the decision &#8220;sort of knocked him off his horse.&#8221; After the talk, Desme felt &#8220;a great amount of peace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love the game, but I aspire to higher things,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I know I have no regrets. <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/mlb\/news\/story?id=4849432\" target=\"_blank\">[reference]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"blog\">He hit a Rome Run!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a top prospect for the Oakland Athletics, outfielder Grant Desme might&#8217;ve gotten the call every minor leaguer wants this spring. Instead, he believed he had another, higher calling. Desme&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}