{"id":11785,"date":"2019-11-21T07:44:32","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T12:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=11785"},"modified":"2019-11-21T07:46:53","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T12:46:53","slug":"adrian-sampson-to-continue-baseball-career-in-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2019\/11\/21\/adrian-sampson-to-continue-baseball-career-in-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrian Sampson to continue baseball career in Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/11\/adriansampson-1024x538.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"366\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-11786\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/11\/adriansampson-1024x538.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/11\/adriansampson-300x158.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/11\/adriansampson-768x403.jpg 768w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/11\/adriansampson-696x365.jpg 696w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/11\/adriansampson-1068x561.jpg 1068w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/11\/adriansampson-800x420.jpg 800w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/11\/adriansampson.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Adrian Sampson appeared in 35 major league games last season for the Texas Rangers &#8211; including 15 starts &#8211; but on Thursday it was announced the 28-year-old had signed to play in the Korea Baseball Organization.<\/p>\n<p>Sampson will join the Lotte Giants according to Levi Weaver.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">According to this (and a source), Adrian Sampson is going to South Korea to play for the Lotte Giants. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eNpupdGXIW\">https:\/\/t.co\/eNpupdGXIW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unclear if this was official in time to have any impact on protecting Rule 5 guys today or not, but as best I can figure, roster is at 39 now.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Levi Weaver (@ThreeTwoEephus) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThreeTwoEephus\/status\/1197345245945585666?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 21, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span>Sampson had seen action on the Rangers the past two seasons after making his big league debut with Seattle in 2016. <\/span><span>Through his first 153 innings of work Sampson owned a 5.71 ERA and a 1.50 WHIP.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Last season the Rangers never quite knew what Sampson was going to do on the mound as he strung strong and poor outings together like a painter mixing paint though the bad outings appeared more prevalent as the season went on. He dealt with back spasms in mid-August which forced a stay on the injured list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adrian Sampson appeared in 35 major league games last season for the Texas Rangers &#8211; including 15 starts &#8211; but on Thursday it was announced the 28-year-old had signed to play in the Korea Baseball Organization. Sampson will join the Lotte Giants according to Levi Weaver. According to this (and a source), Adrian Sampson is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[1149,1150,501,12],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-11785","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-adrian-sampson","9":"tag-korea-baseball-organization","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-texas-rangers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11785","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=11785"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11789,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11785\/revisions\/11789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11785"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}