{"id":1146,"date":"2013-01-16T09:05:46","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T14:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=1146"},"modified":"2013-01-16T09:05:46","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T14:05:46","slug":"phillies-sign-reliever-juan-cruz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/01\/16\/phillies-sign-reliever-juan-cruz\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies sign reliever Juan Cruz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www3.pictures.zimbio.com\/gi\/Pittsburgh+Pirates+v+St+Louis+Cardinals+bYYlBQBTAQtl.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Philadelphia Phillies have signed veteran reliever Juan Cruz to a minor league deal. Cruz will be invited to Spring Training with hopes of grabbing a spot in the Phillies bullpen.<\/p>\n<p>Last season Cruz pitched for the Pittsburgh Pirates where he compiled a 2.78 ERA and a 1.63 WHIP over 35 2\/3 innings of work. The Pirates released the 34-year-old Cruz in mid-August and he was unable to latch on with another club.<\/p>\n<p>While Cruz dealt with arm inflammation last season the Phillies are in a win-win situation here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philadelphia Phillies have signed veteran reliever Juan Cruz to a minor league deal. Cruz will be invited to Spring Training with hopes of grabbing a spot in the Phillies bullpen. Last season Cruz pitched for the Pittsburgh Pirates where he compiled a 2.78 ERA and a 1.63 WHIP over 35 2\/3 innings of work. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-1146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146","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=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}