{"id":1829,"date":"2013-03-30T22:54:01","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T02:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=1829"},"modified":"2013-03-30T22:54:01","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T02:54:01","slug":"dodgers-facing-trouble-in-placing-kevin-gregg-on-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/03\/30\/dodgers-facing-trouble-in-placing-kevin-gregg-on-roster\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers facing trouble in placing Kevin Gregg on roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1830\" alt=\"kevingregg\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/kevingregg.jpg\" width=\"674\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/kevingregg.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/kevingregg-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 674px) 100vw, 674px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Dodgers are trying hard to find a spot for Kevin Gregg on their major league roster. Gregg signed a minor league deal with the Dodgers shortly before camp started and was nearly un-hittable during spring action.<\/p>\n<p>Gregg&#8217;s roster spot on the Dodgers is blocked by guaranteed contracts, more specifically a glut of starting pitchers the Dodgers have been unable to trade.<\/p>\n<p>Unless the Dodgers find a trade partner for Aaron Harang or Chris Capuano the 34-year-old Gregg will be left off the roster. In fact Gregg may not even be on the Dodgers this time next week as he can refuse a minor league assignment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The way last year ended, the way the offseason unfolded, you&#8217;re not a competitor if you don&#8217;t have a little fire to show your abilities,&#8221; Gregg said via <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/blog\/los-angeles\/dodger-report\/post\/_\/id\/4129\/dodgers-trying-to-get-kevin-gregg-on-the-roster\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN<\/a> Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Gregg had a 4.95 ERA and 1.695 WHIP last season before being released by the Baltimore Orioles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Dodgers are trying hard to find a spot for Kevin Gregg on their major league roster. Gregg signed a minor league deal with the Dodgers shortly before camp started and was nearly un-hittable during spring action. Gregg&#8217;s roster spot on the Dodgers is blocked by guaranteed contracts, more specifically a glut of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[261],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-1829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-kevin-gregg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829","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=1829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1829"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}