{"id":11116,"date":"2018-02-14T17:20:18","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T22:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=11116"},"modified":"2018-02-14T17:20:18","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T22:20:18","slug":"cubs-add-reliever-shae-simmons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2018\/02\/14\/cubs-add-reliever-shae-simmons\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs add reliever Shae Simmons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2018\/02\/simmons.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11117\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2018\/02\/simmons.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2018\/02\/simmons-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Cubs have added relief pitcher Shae Simmons.<\/p>\n<p>Simmons, 27, most recently appeared on the Mariners. He previously had been acquired by the Mariners along with Mallex Smith in a deal that sent Luis Gohara to the Braves.<\/p>\n<p>The Mariners viewed Simmons highly when they acquired him but injuries made him ineffective during the 2017 season allowing him to appear in just nine big league games while posting a 7.04 ERA.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Cubs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Cubs<\/a> sign former <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Mariners?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Mariners<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Braves?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Braves<\/a> reliever Shae Simmons to deal worth $750,000 if he\u2019s in major leagues<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BNightengale\/status\/963892363893661697?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 14, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Simmons can earn $750,000 if he is on the Cubs roster this season. He becomes the latest pitcher added by the Cubs as they try to address a bullpen that saw Wade Davis and Hector Rondon leave via free agency and who was maligned for much of the 2017 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cubs have added relief pitcher Shae Simmons. Simmons, 27, most recently appeared on the Mariners. He previously had been acquired by the Mariners along with Mallex Smith in a deal that sent Luis Gohara to the Braves. The Mariners viewed Simmons highly when they acquired him but injuries made him ineffective during the 2017 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[153,1046],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-11116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-chicago-cubs","9":"tag-shea-simmons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11116","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=11116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11118,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11116\/revisions\/11118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11116"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}