{"id":5766,"date":"2013-12-23T10:16:13","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T15:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5766"},"modified":"2013-12-23T10:16:13","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T15:16:13","slug":"brett-tomko-attempting-return-to-majors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/12\/23\/brett-tomko-attempting-return-to-majors\/","title":{"rendered":"Brett Tomko attempting return to majors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_5767\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5767\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/bretttomko.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"404\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5767\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/bretttomko.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/bretttomko-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5767\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nBrett Tomko will audition for MLB teams in January in hopes of resuming his big league career.<\/p>\n<p>Now 40, Tomko has not appeared in a major league game since 2012. He is said to be healthy and throwing upwards of 92 mph. <\/p>\n<p>Tomko is said to be seeking just a minor league deal with a spring training invite. He&#8217;s nothing more than depth for any team who is willing to sign him.<\/p>\n<p>In his 14 year career Tomko owns a 100-103 record with a 4.65 ERA. The highlight of Tomko&#8217;s career has always been being part of the return of the Seattle Mariners when they traded Ken Griffey Jr. to the Cincinnati Reds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brett Tomko will audition for MLB teams in January in hopes of resuming his big league career. Now 40, Tomko has not appeared in a major league game since 2012. He is said to be healthy and throwing upwards of 92 mph. Tomko is said to be seeking just a minor league deal with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[587],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5766","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-brett-tomko"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5766","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=5766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5766"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}