{"id":5172,"date":"2013-11-07T13:17:08","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T18:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5172"},"modified":"2013-11-07T13:17:08","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T18:17:08","slug":"rockies-among-teams-courting-brian-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/11\/07\/rockies-among-teams-courting-brian-wilson\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockies among teams courting Brian Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5173\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5173\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5173\" alt=\"getty images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/11\/brianwilson.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/11\/brianwilson.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/11\/brianwilson-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5173\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Brian Wilson returned from Tommy John surgery at the end of last season. Now he will look to cash in as a free agent.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson, 31, had a 0.66 ERA in 13 2\/3 innings of work for the Dodgers as the 2013 season came to a close. He was added to the teams post season roster.<\/p>\n<p>While Wilson should have good group of suitors, one team already in the mix is the Colorado Rockies. Troy Renck of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/rockies\/ci_24468613\/brian-wilson-grant-balfour-rockies-list-relief-pitcher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Denver Post<\/a> reported that the Rockies are interested in both Wilson and former Oakland A&#8217;s closer Grant Balfour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Wilson returned from Tommy John surgery at the end of last season. Now he will look to cash in as a free agent. Wilson, 31, had a 0.66 ERA in 13 2\/3 innings of work for the Dodgers as the 2013 season came to a close. He was added to the teams post season [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[168,190,135,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-brian-wilson","9":"tag-colorado-rockies","10":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5172","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=5172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5172"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}