{"id":5394,"date":"2013-12-02T22:31:33","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T03:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5394"},"modified":"2013-12-02T22:31:33","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T03:31:33","slug":"john-axford-non-tendered-by-cardinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/12\/02\/john-axford-non-tendered-by-cardinals\/","title":{"rendered":"John Axford non-tendered by Cardinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5395\" alt=\"johnaxford\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/johnaxford.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/johnaxford.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/johnaxford-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Due to make over $5 million in arbitration, the St. Louis Cardinals made the decision to non-tender reliever John Axford.<\/p>\n<p>Axford was not even considered a set-up option with the Cardinals and will now seek out an opportunity to compete for a closers job.<\/p>\n<p>Last season Axford appeared in 75 games posting a 4.02 ERA and a 1.52 WHIP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to make over $5 million in arbitration, the St. Louis Cardinals made the decision to non-tender reliever John Axford. Axford was not even considered a set-up option with the Cardinals and will now seek out an opportunity to compete for a closers job. Last season Axford appeared in 75 games posting a 4.02 ERA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[460,29],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5394","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-john-axford","9":"tag-st-louis-cardinals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5394","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=5394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5394"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}