{"id":10732,"date":"2017-05-25T10:47:02","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T14:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=10732"},"modified":"2017-05-25T10:47:02","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T14:47:02","slug":"koda-glover-named-nationals-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2017\/05\/25\/koda-glover-named-nationals-closer\/","title":{"rendered":"Koda Glover named Nationals closer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10733\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2017\/05\/kodaglover.jpg\" alt=\"kodaglover\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2017\/05\/kodaglover.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2017\/05\/kodaglover-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After working a 1-2-3 ninth inning last night Nationals manager Dusty Baker named Koda Glover his closer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Koda was kind of lobbying for that in the first place,&#8221; Baker said via MASN. &#8220;We wanted to break him in slowly because this guy\u2019s &#8230; shoot, he\u2019s only a year-and-a-half out of college. So he had said that\u2019s the job he wanted, and so it\u2019s his now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Glover&#8217;s move to the ninth inning will leave\u00a0 Shawn Kelley and Blake Treinen\u00a0in setup roles.\u00a0Glover already had three saves this season in 16 games to go with a 2.57 ERA and a 1.00 WHIP. He has been underscored upon in his last five outings.<\/p>\n<p>Even with Glover moving into the closers role the Nationals are expected to be buyers for a late inning releiver\/clsoer\u00a0at the trade deadline. Rumors will continue to swirl around David Robertson of the White Sox but other options include\u00a0Kelvin Herrera, Pat Neshek and Tony Watson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After working a 1-2-3 ninth inning last night Nationals manager Dusty Baker named Koda Glover his closer. &#8220;Koda was kind of lobbying for that in the first place,&#8221; Baker said via MASN. &#8220;We wanted to break him in slowly because this guy\u2019s &#8230; shoot, he\u2019s only a year-and-a-half out of college. So he had said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[999,501,20],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-10732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-koda-glover","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-washington-nationals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10732","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=10732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10734,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10732\/revisions\/10734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10732"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}