{"id":4606,"date":"2013-09-03T10:56:15","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T14:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=4606"},"modified":"2013-09-03T10:56:15","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T14:56:15","slug":"mark-lowe-opts-out-of-contract-with-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/09\/03\/mark-lowe-opts-out-of-contract-with-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Lowe opts out of contract with Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4607\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4607\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4607\" alt=\"getty\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/09\/marklowe.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/09\/marklowe.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/09\/marklowe-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4607\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mark Lowe has opted out of his minor league contract with the Washington Nationals.<\/p>\n<p>Signed to a minor league deal by the Nationals in June, Lowe struggled while at the big league level while with the Angles compiling a 9.26 ERA in 11 2\/3 innings of relief.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Mark Lowe Opts Out Of Contract With Nationals <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/f8KUv32yid\">http:\/\/t.co\/f8KUv32yid<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23mlb&amp;src=hash\">#mlb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tim Dierkes (@mlbtrtrans) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mlbtrtrans\/statuses\/374743242849271808\">September 3, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lowe has bounced around from the Dodgers, to the Angels and lastly the Nationals this year. His journey may not be over as the 30-year-old may get a September look.<\/p>\n<p>While Lowe did not pitch well during his stay with the Angels this season he does hold a 4.17 ERA and a 1.25 WHIP in parts of eight big league seasons. Lowe also holds a career\u00a0.233\/.309\/.332 line against right handed batters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Mark Lowe has opted out of his minor league contract with the Washington Nationals. Signed to a minor league deal by the Nationals in June, Lowe struggled while at the big league level while with the Angles compiling a 9.26 ERA in 11 2\/3 innings of relief. Mark Lowe Opts Out Of Contract With [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[465,20],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-4606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-mark-lowe","tag-washington-nationals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4606","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=4606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4606"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}