{"id":4020,"date":"2013-07-29T13:34:42","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T17:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=4020"},"modified":"2013-07-29T13:34:42","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T17:34:42","slug":"braves-acquire-reliever-scott-downs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/07\/29\/braves-acquire-reliever-scott-downs\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves acquire reliever Scott Downs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4022\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4022\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4022\" alt=\"Source: Layne Murdoch\/Getty Images North America\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/scottdowns.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/scottdowns.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/scottdowns-300x290.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/scottdowns-32x32.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4022\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Layne Murdoch\/Getty Images North America<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Atlanta Braves had been scouting left handed options for their bullpen after losing Jonny Venters and Eric O&#8217;Flaherty earlier in the year.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday the Braves acquired left handed reliever Scott Downs from the Los Angeles Angels.<\/p>\n<p>Downs, 37, has been one of baseball&#8217;s best relievers since moving to the bellpen full-time in 2007. This season Downs has a 1.84 ERA and a 1.26 WHIP in 43 games.<\/p>\n<p>In order to get Downs the Braves gave up right handed pitcher Cory Rasmus, younger brother of Blue Jays outfielder Colby Rasmus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Atlanta Braves had been scouting left handed options for their bullpen after losing Jonny Venters and Eric O&#8217;Flaherty earlier in the year. On Monday the Braves acquired left handed reliever Scott Downs from the Los Angeles Angels. Downs, 37, has been one of baseball&#8217;s best relievers since moving to the bellpen full-time in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[28,427],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-4020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-atlanta-braves","9":"tag-scott-downs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020","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=4020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4020"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}