{"id":1797,"date":"2013-03-29T10:51:39","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T14:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=1797"},"modified":"2013-03-29T10:51:39","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T14:51:39","slug":"roberto-hernandez-wins-final-rotation-spot-for-rays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/03\/29\/roberto-hernandez-wins-final-rotation-spot-for-rays\/","title":{"rendered":"Roberto Hernandez wins final rotation spot for Rays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1798\" alt=\"robertohernandez\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/robertohernandez.jpg\" width=\"676\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/robertohernandez.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/robertohernandez-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Tampa Bay Rays have awarded Roberto Hernandez the fifth and final spot in their rotation to start the season. Hernandez signed a $3.25 million contract with the team this offense which includes nearly $2 million in additional incentives.<\/p>\n<p>Hernandez made just three starts last season while his identify as Fausto Carmona was exposed to be a fraud.<\/p>\n<p>The now 32-year-old right handed Hernandez had a 5.33 ERA and a 1.22 WHIP this spring. He was awarded the rotation spot over Jeff Niemann.<\/p>\n<p>Expectations should be low on Hernandez who has not had an ERA below 5 since 2010 and has only two of his seven big league seasons with a sub 5 ERA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tampa Bay Rays have awarded Roberto Hernandez the fifth and final spot in their rotation to start the season. Hernandez signed a $3.25 million contract with the team this offense which includes nearly $2 million in additional incentives. Hernandez made just three starts last season while his identify as Fausto Carmona was exposed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[255,179],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-1797","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-roberto-hernandez","9":"tag-tampa-bay-rays"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797","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=1797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1797"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}