{"id":10685,"date":"2016-02-03T12:25:57","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T17:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=10685"},"modified":"2016-02-03T12:25:57","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T17:25:57","slug":"matt-thornton-still-awaiting-team-with-serious-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2016\/02\/03\/matt-thornton-still-awaiting-team-with-serious-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Thornton still awaiting team with &#8220;serious&#8221; interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10686\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2016\/02\/mattthornton.jpg\" alt=\"mattthornton\" width=\"594\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2016\/02\/mattthornton.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2016\/02\/mattthornton-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Matt Thornton remains a free agent who as he is\u00a0&#8220;waiting for a team to show serious interest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old left hander appeared on Sirius XM on Wednesday saying he would retire if he does not get a big league deal for the 2016 season.<\/p>\n<p>Thornton surely has plenty of teams interested in him but thus far no one has paid up for the reliever who spent last season with the Nationals compiling a 2.18 ERA and a 23\/11 K\/BB ratio in 41 1\/3 innings. Thornton was especially tough against left handed hitters holding them to a .198\/.205\/.279 line.<\/p>\n<p>We fully believe Thornton will get a big league deal this season but at this point it is likely to be of the one-year variety. Given the amount of money players such as Tony Sipp (3 years\/$18 million) have received this winter it is easy to understand why Thornton is frustrated with his market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Thornton remains a free agent who as he is\u00a0&#8220;waiting for a team to show serious interest.&#8221; The 39-year-old left hander appeared on Sirius XM on Wednesday saying he would retire if he does not get a big league deal for the 2016 season. Thornton surely has plenty of teams interested in him but thus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[181,400,501,20],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-10685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-chicago-white-sox","9":"tag-matt-thornton","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-washington-nationals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10685","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=10685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10687,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10685\/revisions\/10687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10685"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}