{"id":5129,"date":"2013-11-03T00:23:23","date_gmt":"2013-11-03T04:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5129"},"modified":"2013-11-03T00:23:23","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T04:23:23","slug":"red-sox-decline-option-on-matt-thornton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/11\/03\/red-sox-decline-option-on-matt-thornton\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox decline option on Matt Thornton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5130\" alt=\"mattthornton\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/11\/mattthornton.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/11\/mattthornton.jpg 650w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/11\/mattthornton-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In one of the most obvious decisions of the winter, the Boston Red Sox declined the option of left handed reliever Matt Thronton.<\/p>\n<p>Acquired in a trade with the Chicago White Sox, Thornton compiled a 3.74 ERA,\u00a01.47 WHIP and 30\/15 K\/BB ratio over 47 1\/3 innings of work.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than collecting $6 million for the 2014 season, the Red Sox will pay Thornton a $1 million buyout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one of the most obvious decisions of the winter, the Boston Red Sox declined the option of left handed reliever Matt Thronton. Acquired in a trade with the Chicago White Sox, Thornton compiled a 3.74 ERA,\u00a01.47 WHIP and 30\/15 K\/BB ratio over 47 1\/3 innings of work. Rather than collecting $6 million for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[27,400,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5129","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-boston-red-sox","9":"tag-matt-thornton","10":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5129","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=5129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5129"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}