{"id":11482,"date":"2019-02-15T11:21:26","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T16:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=11482"},"modified":"2019-02-15T11:21:30","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T16:21:30","slug":"brett-cecil-drops-42-pounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2019\/02\/15\/brett-cecil-drops-42-pounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Brett Cecil drops 42 pounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/02\/img_0395.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11481\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/02\/img_0395.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/02\/img_0395-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brett Cecil is trying to improve upon a 2018 season that saw him post a 6.89 ERA in 32 2\/3 innings of work.<\/p>\n<p>One way that Cecil aims to improve his numbers is with the loss of 42 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>Owed $15 million over the next two seasons the Cardinals could end up releasing Cecil if he struggles this spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brett Cecil is trying to improve upon a 2018 season that saw him post a 6.89 ERA in 32 2\/3 innings of work. One way that Cecil aims to improve his numbers is with the loss of 42 pounds. Owed $15 million over the next two seasons the Cardinals could end up releasing Cecil if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[1102,501,29],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-brett-cecil","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-st-louis-cardinals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11482","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=11482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11483,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11482\/revisions\/11483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11482"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}