{"id":1872,"date":"2013-04-03T13:20:14","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T17:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=1872"},"modified":"2013-04-03T13:20:14","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T17:20:14","slug":"former-big-leaguer-scott-elarton-signs-with-independent-league-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/04\/03\/former-big-leaguer-scott-elarton-signs-with-independent-league-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Former big leaguer Scott Elarton signs with Independent league team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-796\" alt=\"scottelarton\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/scottelarton.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/scottelarton.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/scottelarton-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Former major league pitcher Scott Elarton has joined the Sugar Land Skeeters of the Atlanta League. Elarton has not pitched in the major leagues since 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Elarton&#8217;s last productive season came in 2005 when he won 11 games for the Indians. Last year Elarton made 26 starts for the Phillies Triple-A team finishing with a 5.41 ERA and a 1.57 WHIP.<\/p>\n<p>The Skeeters also signed former big league pitchers Sean Gallager and Bobby Livingston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former major league pitcher Scott Elarton has joined the Sugar Land Skeeters of the Atlanta League. Elarton has not pitched in the major leagues since 2008. Elarton&#8217;s last productive season came in 2005 when he won 11 games for the Indians. Last year Elarton made 26 starts for the Phillies Triple-A team finishing with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-1872","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872","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=1872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1872"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}