{"id":1752,"date":"2013-03-26T11:45:41","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T15:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=1752"},"modified":"2013-03-26T11:45:41","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T15:45:41","slug":"phillies-cut-ties-with-aaron-cook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/03\/26\/phillies-cut-ties-with-aaron-cook\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies cut ties with Aaron Cook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1753\" alt=\"aaroncook\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/aaroncook.jpg\" width=\"676\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/aaroncook.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/aaroncook-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Signed to a minor league deal, Aaron Cook&#8217;s chances of making the Philadelphia Phillies out of spring training were slim. On Tuesday the Phillies cut the 34-year-old right handed Cook.<\/p>\n<p>The Phillies could have kept Cook and sent him to the minors but that would have required them paying him a $100,000 retention bonus.<\/p>\n<p>Last season Cook pitched 94 innings for the Boston Red Sox finishing with a 5.65 ERA and a 1.47 WHIP in 18 starts.<\/p>\n<p>Cook&#8217;s chances of earning a major league roster spot appear to be slim right now but there should be a healthy supply of teams willing to offer the 11 year veteran a minor league deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Signed to a minor league deal, Aaron Cook&#8217;s chances of making the Philadelphia Phillies out of spring training were slim. On Tuesday the Phillies cut the 34-year-old right handed Cook. The Phillies could have kept Cook and sent him to the minors but that would have required them paying him a $100,000 retention bonus. Last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[246,109],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-1752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-aaron-cook","9":"tag-philadelphia-phillies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752","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=1752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1752"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}