{"id":6363,"date":"2014-02-13T23:23:50","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T04:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6363"},"modified":"2014-02-13T23:23:50","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T04:23:50","slug":"rays-favorites-to-land-erik-bedard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/02\/13\/rays-favorites-to-land-erik-bedard\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays favorites to land Erik Bedard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_4510\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4510\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/erikbedard.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4510\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/erikbedard.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/erikbedard-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4510\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Tampa Bay Rays are now the favorites to sign free agent pitcher Erik Bedard.<\/p>\n<p>Bedard, 34, is expected to get a minor league deal. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Hearing <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Rays&amp;src=hash\">#Rays<\/a> are likely to sign LHP Erik Bedard to a minor-league deal. Is 34, 10 years in majors, struggled recently. Would provide depth.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Marc Topkin (@TBTimes_Rays) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TBTimes_Rays\/statuses\/434125396603580418\">February 14, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>If Bedard does sign with the Rays there is a good chance it will include some incentives with opt outs so that the left hander could seek other opportunities if he does not get onto the Rays roster.<\/p>\n<p>Bedard finished the 2013 season with a 4.59 ERA and a 1.48 WHIP with the Houston Astros. He did manage 138 strike outs and will provide depth if nothing else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tampa Bay Rays are now the favorites to sign free agent pitcher Erik Bedard. Bedard, 34, is expected to get a minor league deal. Hearing #Rays are likely to sign LHP Erik Bedard to a minor-league deal. Is 34, 10 years in majors, struggled recently. Would provide depth. &mdash; Marc Topkin (@TBTimes_Rays) February 14, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[176,179],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-6363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-erik-bedard","9":"tag-tampa-bay-rays"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6363","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=6363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6363"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}