{"id":10138,"date":"2015-04-05T21:47:49","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T01:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=10138"},"modified":"2015-04-05T21:47:49","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T01:47:49","slug":"jason-grilli-and-jim-johnson-in-line-for-saves-on-braves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2015\/04\/05\/jason-grilli-and-jim-johnson-in-line-for-saves-on-braves\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Grilli and Jim Johnson in line for saves on Braves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_7474\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7474\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/jasongrilli.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"370\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7474\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/jasongrilli.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/jasongrilli-300x186.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/jasongrilli-85x54.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7474\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nFollowing the Atlanta Braves decision to deal closer Craig Kimbrel on Sunday both Jason Grilli and Jim Johnson are now in line for the team&#8217;s ninth inning duties.<\/p>\n<p>Kimbrel was traded along with Melvin Upton to the San Diego Padres in exchange for minor leaguer pitcher Matt Wisler and a trio of outfielders that includes Cameron Maybin, Carlos Quentin and Jorgan Paroubeck in addition to the 41st pick in the 2015 MLB Amateur Drafft.<\/p>\n<p>With Kimbrel gone both Grilli and Johnson could see ninth inning work. Both have previously been All-Star closers in the past but both are working their way back from injuries and just plain ineffective play.<\/p>\n<p>Quentin may end up being designated for assignment by the Braves who are in full-on rebuilding mode currently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the Atlanta Braves decision to deal closer Craig Kimbrel on Sunday both Jason Grilli and Jim Johnson are now in line for the team&#8217;s ninth inning duties. Kimbrel was traded along with Melvin Upton to the San Diego Padres in exchange for minor leaguer pitcher Matt Wisler and a trio of outfielders that includes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[28,647,503,111,447,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-10138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-atlanta-braves","9":"tag-craig-kimbrel","10":"tag-front","11":"tag-jason-grilli","12":"tag-jim-johnson","13":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10138","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=10138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10139,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10138\/revisions\/10139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10138"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}