{"id":11446,"date":"2019-02-07T21:28:06","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T02:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=11446"},"modified":"2019-02-07T21:28:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T02:28:07","slug":"josh-tomlin-settles-for-minor-league-deal-from-brewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2019\/02\/07\/josh-tomlin-settles-for-minor-league-deal-from-brewers\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Tomlin settles for minor league deal from Brewers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/02\/img_0344.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11445\" width=\"600\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/02\/img_0344.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/02\/img_0344-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After waiting a week into February and Josh Tomlin has accepted a minor league deal with the Brewers.<\/p>\n<p>Tomlin, 34, spent last season as a mop up man for the Indians but held a 6.14 ERA through 32 games.<\/p>\n<p>The Brewers have invited Tomlin to spring training and will give him a chance to compete for a spot at the backend of their rotation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"report\" style=\"margin: 5px 3px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; width: 273.59375px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none\">Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic reports that the deal is worth $1.25 million if Tomlin is in the majors and can max out at $3.5 million if he reached 150 innings.<\/div>\n<p>Just a couple of days ago the Brewers were said to be interested in bringing back Gio Gonzalez. Gonzalez made five starts for the Brewers at the end of 2018 going 3-0 with a 2.13 ERA. His 2018 season as a whole was 32 starts with a 10-11 record, 4.21 ERA and 1.44 WHIP.<\/p>\n<p>The signing of Tomlin should have little affect on the Brewers pursuit of Gonzalez or another end of rotation arm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After waiting a week into February and Josh Tomlin has accepted a minor league deal with the Brewers. Tomlin, 34, spent last season as a mop up man for the Indians but held a 6.14 ERA through 32 games. The Brewers have invited Tomlin to spring training and will give him a chance to compete [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[1095,224],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11446","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-josh-tomlin","9":"tag-milwaukee-brewers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11446","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=11446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11447,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11446\/revisions\/11447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11446"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}