{"id":5658,"date":"2013-12-16T22:39:57","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T03:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5658"},"modified":"2013-12-16T22:39:57","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T03:39:57","slug":"dodgers-and-j-p-howell-closing-in-on-two-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/12\/16\/dodgers-and-j-p-howell-closing-in-on-two-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers and J.P. Howell closing in on two-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5659\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5659\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5659\" alt=\"getty images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/jphowell.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/jphowell.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/jphowell-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5659\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Los Angeles Dodgers wanted to bring back left handed reliever J.P. Howell. They are close to doing so.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Howell would be guaranteed $11.25 million on a recent two year offer made by the Dodgers, with a $6.25 million salary in 2016 if he makes 120 appearances the first two seasons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The team would not confirm the agreement to MLB.com&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/news\/article\/la\/los-angeles-dodgers-reportedly-ready-to-bring-back-jp-howell?ymd=20131216&amp;content_id=66023242&amp;vkey=news_la\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ken Gurnick<\/a> but it \u00a0is believed to be contingent on the passing of a physical exam.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Howell finished 2013 with a 4-1 record with a career-best 2.03 ERA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Dodgers bullpen is starting to take shape in front of closer Kenley Jansen. Brian Wilson has been re-signed, Paco Rodriguez, Brandon League, and Chris Withrow are also under contract. They could also add Jamey Wright.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally the Dodgers have signed infielder Josh Bell and pitcher Sam Demel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Dodgers wanted to bring back left handed reliever J.P. Howell. They are close to doing so. Howell would be guaranteed $11.25 million on a recent two year offer made by the Dodgers, with a $6.25 million salary in 2016 if he makes 120 appearances the first two seasons. The team would not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[573,135],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5658","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-jp-howell","9":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5658","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=5658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5658"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}