{"id":6427,"date":"2014-02-16T23:15:05","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T04:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6427"},"modified":"2014-02-16T23:15:05","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T04:15:05","slug":"colby-lewis-ready-to-compete-for-rangers-rotation-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/02\/16\/colby-lewis-ready-to-compete-for-rangers-rotation-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"Colby Lewis ready to compete for Rangers rotation spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6428\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6428\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6428\" alt=\"getty images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/colbylewis.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/colbylewis.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/colbylewis-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6428\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Texas Rangers pitcher Colby Lewis has reported to spring training and is ready to compete for a spot in the rotation.\u00a0With Derek Holland out there is a spot to be had and the 34-year-old Lewis is hoping to nab it.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis has not pitched since the middle of the 2012 season while dealing with hip and arm issues.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I did it for the love of the game and wanting to continue to play,&#8221; said Lewis, via <a href=\"http:\/\/msn.foxsports.com\/southwest\/story\/lewis-ready-for-another-run-at-rangers-rotation-021614\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Fox Sports Southwest<\/a>. &#8220;Like my wife (Jenny) said, &#8216;\u0080\u0098I&#8217;m not ready for baseball to be over.&#8217; Neither am I.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If Lewis can get though spring training healthy he stands to claim a spot.\u00a0Since Lewis returned stateside he has made 80 starts compiling a 32-29 record, 3.93 ERA and a 1.18 WHIP. He has a 458\/135 K\/BB ratio over 506 1\/3 innings pitched since the start of the 2010 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Rangers pitcher Colby Lewis has reported to spring training and is ready to compete for a spot in the rotation.\u00a0With Derek Holland out there is a spot to be had and the 34-year-old Lewis is hoping to nab it. Lewis has not pitched since the middle of the 2012 season while dealing with hip [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[308,501,12],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-6427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-colby-lewis","tag-mlb","tag-texas-rangers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6427","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=6427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6427"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}