{"id":10081,"date":"2015-02-26T10:26:41","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T15:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=10081"},"modified":"2015-02-26T10:26:41","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T15:26:41","slug":"brewers-bring-back-fransico-rodriguez-on-two-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2015\/02\/26\/brewers-bring-back-fransico-rodriguez-on-two-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewers bring back Fransico Rodriguez on two-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/02\/franciscorodriguez.jpg\" alt=\"franciscorodriguez\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10082\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/02\/franciscorodriguez.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/02\/franciscorodriguez-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Milwaukee Brewers have given closer Francisco Rodriguez a two-year deal to return with the team.<\/p>\n<p>While the Brewers had been talking to the Philadelphia Phillies about a trade for Jonathan Papelbon, it always seemed that re-signing Rodriguez was the easier path.<\/p>\n<p>After posting a 3.04 ERA and a 73\/18 K\/BB ratio across 68 innings last season the Brewers will again ticket Rodriguez for ninth inning duties. He picked up 44 saves in 49 chances last season.<\/p>\n<p>The re-signing of Rodriguez will push Jonathan Broxton back into a setup role.<\/p>\n<p>In 799 career games Rodriguez has accumulated 348 saves with a 2.74 ERA and a 1.17 WHIP. He should have little problem being a valuable fantasy player as well as insurance at the back of the bullpen for the Brewers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Milwaukee Brewers have given closer Francisco Rodriguez a two-year deal to return with the team. While the Brewers had been talking to the Philadelphia Phillies about a trade for Jonathan Papelbon, it always seemed that re-signing Rodriguez was the easier path. After posting a 3.04 ERA and a 73\/18 K\/BB ratio across 68 innings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[329,503,224,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-10081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-francisco-rodriguez","tag-front","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10081","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=10081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10083,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10081\/revisions\/10083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10081"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}