{"id":6237,"date":"2018-03-12T13:22:43","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T18:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/?p=6237"},"modified":"2018-03-12T13:22:43","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T18:22:43","slug":"2018-mlb-media-guides-are-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/2018-mlb-media-guides-are-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 MLB Media Guides Are Coming!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2018 MLB season is nearly upon us, so I&#8217;ve been feverishly at work gathering all the team publications I can. I have just over half of the league&#8217;s media guides published already, with more to come over the next few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>You can check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/mlb\/seasons\/2018\/index.html\">2018 MLB season index<\/a> to see the collection as it grows, but I want to highlight a few of my early favorites here.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/mlb\/seasons\/2018\/houston-astros-media-guide_2018.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/watermark.php?path=mlb\/seasons\/2018\/images\/mlb-media-guide_houston-astros_2018.jpg\" alt=\"2018 Houston Astros media guide\" width=\"600\" height=\"912\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Houston Astros<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I have to recognize the defending World Series champion Houston Astros first. While the design isn&#8217;t super original it is well-executed.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/mlb\/seasons\/2018\/oakland-athletics-media-guide_2018.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/watermark.php?path=mlb\/seasons\/2018\/images\/mlb-media-guide_oakland-athletics_2018.jpg\" alt=\"2018 Oakland A's media guide\" width=\"600\" height=\"921\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland A&#8217;s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The early contender for best media guide of the year goes to the Oakland A&#8217;s, who celebrate their 50th season in town after moving from Kansas City. Look, any time a club puts old tickets and programs on their publications, it speaks to me.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, other Major League teams are celebrating anniversaries this year. Let&#8217;s take a look.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/mlb\/seasons\/2018\/kansas-city-royals-media-guide_2018.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/watermark.php?path=mlb\/seasons\/2018\/images\/mlb-media-guide_kansas-city-royals_2018.jpg\" alt=\"2018 Kansas City Royals media guide\" width=\"600\" height=\"927\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kansas City Royals<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/mlb\/seasons\/2018\/san-francisco-giants-media-guide_2018.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/watermark.php?path=mlb\/seasons\/2018\/images\/mlb-media-guide_san-francisco-giants_2018.jpg\" alt=\"2018 San Francisco Giants media guide\" width=\"600\" height=\"892\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Giants<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/mlb\/seasons\/2018\/tampa-bay-rays-media-guide_2018.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/watermark.php?path=mlb\/seasons\/2018\/images\/mlb-media-guide_tampa-bay-rays_2018.jpg\" alt=\"2018 Tampa Bay Rays media guide\" width=\"600\" height=\"923\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tampa Bay Rays<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lastly, we have some Hall of Famers to celebrate this year. And while I haven&#8217;t yet seen if the Braves or Padres have decided to honor their inductees, I know the Angels and Tigers have.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/mlb\/seasons\/2018\/los-angeles-angels-media-guide_2018.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/watermark.php?path=mlb\/seasons\/2018\/images\/mlb-media-guide_los-angeles-angels_2018.jpg\" alt=\"2018 Los Angeles Angels media guide\" width=\"600\" height=\"931\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Angeles Angels<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 581px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/mlb\/seasons\/2018\/detroit-tigers-media-guide_2018.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/watermark.php?path=mlb\/seasons\/2018\/images\/mlb-media-guide_detroit-tigers_2018.jpg\" alt=\"2018 Detroit Tigers media guide\" width=\"581\" height=\"896\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Detroit Tigers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A look at some of the highlights from the 2018 Major League Baseball media guides on SportsPaper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[392],"tags":[459,297,102,603,96,50,46,602,467,550],"class_list":["post-6237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-site-updates","tag-2010s","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-houston-astros","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-media-guides","tag-mlb","tag-oakland-athletics","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-tampa-bay-rays","wpcat-392-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6237"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6242,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6237\/revisions\/6242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}