{"id":1704,"date":"2013-03-23T13:16:58","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T17:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=1704"},"modified":"2013-03-23T13:16:58","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T17:16:58","slug":"rangers-scout-kyle-lohse-but-continue-to-deny-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/03\/23\/rangers-scout-kyle-lohse-but-continue-to-deny-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers scout Kyle Lohse but continue to deny interest"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Texas Rangers have continuously been linked to pitcher Kyle Lohse yet continue to publicly deny interest in the free agent.<\/p>\n

Lohse has been linked to a variety of teams over the winter but thus far all have denied any interest in the right hander. The failure of Lohse to sign a deal is a combination of two things, draft pick compensation and a salary north of $13 million a season.<\/p>\n

The now 34-year-old Lohse was little more than a end of the rotation stater until he arrived in St. Louis. In five years with the Cardinals he was a 55-35 pitcher with a 3.90 ERA and a 1.28 WHIP.<\/p>\n

One team who has constantly denied interest in Lohse has been the Texas Rangers. They recently watched<\/a> him throw a simulated game but then decried that it was simply the team covering all the bases.<\/p>\n

Clearly the Rangers felt\u00a0 the need to watch Lohse pitch in late March even after they spent the beginning of the month denying interest<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Rangers will not say it in public but they do have interest in Lohse, just not at $13 million a season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Texas Rangers have continuously been linked to pitcher Kyle Lohse yet continue to publicly deny interest in the free agent. Lohse has been linked to a variety of teams over the winter but thus far all have denied any interest in the right hander. The failure of Lohse to sign a deal is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[241,12],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-1704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-kyle-lohse","tag-texas-rangers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704","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=1704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1704"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}