{"id":10060,"date":"2015-02-13T15:07:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T20:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=10060"},"modified":"2015-02-13T15:07:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T20:07:00","slug":"phil-coke-holding-out-for-major-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2015\/02\/13\/phil-coke-holding-out-for-major-league-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Phil Coke holding out for major league deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_4718\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4718\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/09\/philcoke.jpg\" alt=\"Hannah Foslien\/Getty Images North America\" width=\"594\" height=\"428\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4718\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/09\/philcoke.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/09\/philcoke-300x216.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/09\/philcoke-70x50.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4718\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hannah Foslien\/Getty Images North America<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nFormer Detroit Tigers pitcher Phil Coke is hoping to land a major league deal this offseason.<\/p>\n<p>Coke, 32, finished last season with a 3.88 ERA and a 1.53 WHIP during 58 innings of work. The left hander continues to look for a big league deal even as comparable relievers in Joe Thatcher and Matt Albers have accepted minor league deals with invitations to spring training.<\/p>\n<p>There are plenty of teams who may be willing to pay Coke if he preforms in spring training but landing a guaranteed deal may be difficult.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Phil Coke seeking \u2248 $2M on big league deal per source. A few possible fits for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MLB?src=hash\">#MLB<\/a> deals &amp; wide-ranging interest on minor league deals.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ben Nicholson-Smith (@bnicholsonsmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bnicholsonsmith\/status\/566313434938372098\">February 13, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Detroit Tigers pitcher Phil Coke is hoping to land a major league deal this offseason. Coke, 32, finished last season with a 3.88 ERA and a 1.53 WHIP during 58 innings of work. The left hander continues to look for a big league deal even as comparable relievers in Joe Thatcher and Matt Albers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[66,501,475],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-10060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-detroit-tigers","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-phil-coke"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10061,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10060\/revisions\/10061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10060"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}