{"id":12011,"date":"2020-02-05T06:33:19","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T11:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=12011"},"modified":"2020-02-05T06:33:19","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T11:33:19","slug":"phillies-land-veteran-reliever-anthony-swarzak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2020\/02\/05\/phillies-land-veteran-reliever-anthony-swarzak\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies land veteran reliever Anthony Swarzak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12012\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2020\/02\/anthonyswarzak.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2020\/02\/anthonyswarzak.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2020\/02\/anthonyswarzak-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2020\/02\/anthonyswarzak-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2020\/02\/anthonyswarzak-696x464.jpg 696w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2020\/02\/anthonyswarzak-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday the Phillies signed veteran relief pitcher Anthony Swarzak to a minor league contract.<\/p>\n<p>Swarzak, 34, spent last season split between the Mariners and Braves compiling a 4.56 ERA across 53 1\/3 innings to go with a 1.48 WHIP and a 52\/27 K\/BB ratio.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">In other news&#8230;..the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Phillies?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Phillies<\/a> have signed veteran reliever Anthony Swarzak to a minor-league deal that will pay him $1.5 million if he makes their 26-man roster with $1.25 million in incentives.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BNightengale\/status\/1224916856877670400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 5, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to Bob Nightengale, Swarzak can make $1.5 million if he makes the Phillies 26-man major league roster. Another $1.25 can come in the form of performance-based incentives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday the Phillies signed veteran relief pitcher Anthony Swarzak to a minor league contract. Swarzak, 34, spent last season split between the Mariners and Braves compiling a 4.56 ERA across 53 1\/3 innings to go with a 1.48 WHIP and a 52\/27 K\/BB ratio. In other news&#8230;..the #Phillies have signed veteran reliever Anthony Swarzak [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[1180,28,503,501,109],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-12011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-anthony-swarzak","9":"tag-atlanta-braves","10":"tag-front","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-philadelphia-phillies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12011","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=12011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12013,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12011\/revisions\/12013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12011"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=12011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}