{"id":4609,"date":"2013-09-03T21:47:39","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T01:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=4609"},"modified":"2013-09-03T21:47:39","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T01:47:39","slug":"blue-jays-purchase-contract-of-ricky-romero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/09\/03\/blue-jays-purchase-contract-of-ricky-romero\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays purchase contract of Ricky Romero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1768\" alt=\"rickyromero\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/rickyromero.jpg\" width=\"676\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/rickyromero.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/rickyromero-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Toronto Blue Jays have added Ricky Romero to their roster.<\/p>\n<p>Romero, 28, failed to win a rotation spot with the Blue Jays out of spring training and s- ave for two awful outings in May &#8211; spent the year in the minors.<\/p>\n<p>The left handed Romero will be used as a long reliever for now but the Blue Jays may opt to give him a few starts to close out the season. Expectations will be low for Romero who had a 5.78 ERA and 1.75 WHIP over 22 starts for Triple-A Buffalo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Blue Jays have added Ricky Romero to their roster. Romero, 28, failed to win a rotation spot with the Blue Jays out of spring training and s- ave for two awful outings in May &#8211; spent the year in the minors. The left handed Romero will be used as a long reliever for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[249,95],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-4609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-ricky-romero","9":"tag-toronto-blue-jays"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4609","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=4609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4609"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}