{"id":4311,"date":"2013-08-09T15:52:10","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T19:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=4311"},"modified":"2013-08-09T15:52:10","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T19:52:10","slug":"kyle-farnsworth-designated-for-assignment-by-rays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/08\/09\/kyle-farnsworth-designated-for-assignment-by-rays\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Farnsworth designated for assignment by Rays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/20130809-155020.jpg\" alt=\"20130809-155020.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><br \/>\nThe Tampa Bay Rays have designated Kyle Farnsworth for assignment. Farnsworth, 37, has been ineffective for the most part over 39 appearances this season.<\/p>\n<p>A drop in velocity has taken a toll on Farnsworth who owns a 5.76 ERA and a 1.48 WHIP this season.<\/p>\n<p>Farnsworth was spending his third season with Tampa Bay, his first of which was 2011 when he claimed the closers role and compiled a 2.18 ERA and 0.99 WHIP over 63 games.<\/p>\n<p><I>Analysis:<\/i> A team could take a gamble on Farnsworth but his days of being a back of the bullpen anchor are gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tampa Bay Rays have designated Kyle Farnsworth for assignment. Farnsworth, 37, has been ineffective for the most part over 39 appearances this season. A drop in velocity has taken a toll on Farnsworth who owns a 5.76 ERA and a 1.48 WHIP this season. Farnsworth was spending his third season with Tampa Bay, his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[178,179],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4311","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-kyle-farnsworth","8":"tag-tampa-bay-rays"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4311","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=4311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4311"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}