{"id":10760,"date":"2017-08-29T17:45:07","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T21:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=10760"},"modified":"2017-08-29T17:45:07","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T21:45:07","slug":"justin-verlander-drawing-more-interest-as-deadline-nears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2017\/08\/29\/justin-verlander-drawing-more-interest-as-deadline-nears\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Verlander drawing more interest as deadline nears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6970\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/03\/justinverlander.jpg\" alt=\"justinverlander\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/03\/justinverlander.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/03\/justinverlander-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Astros are not the only team who are interesting in Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander.<\/p>\n<p>According to MLB Network&#8217;s Jon Morosi, the &#8220;trade interest in Justin Verlander has increased this week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Teams have until Aug 31 to work out a waiver deal and apparently the recent success of the right hander has made teams more willing to consider his contract. Since July 8 he has pitched well posting a 2.38 ERA and a 75\/19 K\/BB ratio in 10 starts.<\/p>\n<p>Verlander is owed $28 million in each of the next two seasons with a $22 million vesting option for 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Thus far no one outside of the Astros has been connected to Verlander by name. Stay turned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Astros are not the only team who are interesting in Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander. According to MLB Network&#8217;s Jon Morosi, the &#8220;trade interest in Justin Verlander has increased this week.&#8221; Teams have until Aug 31 to work out a waiver deal and apparently the recent success of the right hander has made teams more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,211,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-10760","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-justin-verlander","10":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10760","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=10760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10761,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10760\/revisions\/10761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10760"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}