{"id":1049,"date":"2013-01-03T14:55:09","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T19:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2013-01-03T14:55:09","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T19:55:09","slug":"rangers-sign-reliever-jason-frasor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/01\/03\/rangers-sign-reliever-jason-frasor\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers sign reliever Jason Frasor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1050\" alt=\"jasonfrasor\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/01\/jasonfrasor.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/01\/jasonfrasor.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/01\/jasonfrasor-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Texas Rangers have <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RangerBlake\/status\/286885981506908160\">signed<\/a> relief pitcher Jason Frasor to a one-year deal. Frasor will make $1.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>Pitching out of the bullpen, the Rangers will hope for a bounce back season from the 35-year-old right handed pitcher. Last season he compiled a 4.12 ERA and a 1.47 WHIP in 43 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p>In nine big league seasons, eight of which were with the Blue Jays, Frasor has a 3.77 ERA in 1.33 WHIP.<\/p>\n<p>In a corresponding movie, the Rangers cut catcher Eli Whiteside. Whiteside tallied only 14 plate appearances last season. He is a .215 career hitter whose biggest assest to a team will be as organizational depth.<\/p>\n<p>Texas remains interested <a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/01\/03\/rangers-have-spoken-with-lance-berkman\/\">in signing<\/a> Lance Berkman to a contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Rangers have signed relief pitcher Jason Frasor to a one-year deal. Frasor will make $1.5 million. Pitching out of the bullpen, the Rangers will hope for a bounce back season from the 35-year-old right handed pitcher. Last season he compiled a 4.12 ERA and a 1.47 WHIP in 43 2\/3 innings. In nine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[163],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-1049","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-jason-frasor"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049","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=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}