{"id":2239,"date":"2013-04-29T16:15:10","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T20:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=2239"},"modified":"2013-04-29T16:15:10","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T20:15:10","slug":"aaron-laffey-elects-for-free-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/04\/29\/aaron-laffey-elects-for-free-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Laffey elects for free agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2240\" alt=\"aaronlaffey\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/aaronlaffey.jpg\" width=\"675\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/aaronlaffey.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/aaronlaffey-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Toronto Blue Jays designated pitcher Aaron Laffey for assignment last weekend. After clearing waivers Laffey rejected a minor league assignment and has become a free agent.<\/p>\n<p>Laffey, 28, has allowed 10 runs in 12 2\/3 innings of work this year.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays originally claimed Laffey off of waiver from the New York Mets. Subbing for Josh Johnson the left hander lasted just 2 2\/3 innings in his lone Blue Jays appearance while allowing two runs on two hits and five walks.Laffey will now be free to choose his next team. He figures to have a fair amount of interest on a minor league deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Blue Jays designated pitcher Aaron Laffey for assignment last weekend. After clearing waivers Laffey rejected a minor league assignment and has become a free agent. Laffey, 28, has allowed 10 runs in 12 2\/3 innings of work this year. The Blue Jays originally claimed Laffey off of waiver from the New York Mets. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[302,95],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-2239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-aaron-laffey","tag-toronto-blue-jays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239","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=2239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2239"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}