{"id":6523,"date":"2014-02-25T14:52:11","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T19:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6523"},"modified":"2014-02-25T14:52:11","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T19:52:11","slug":"jose-fernandez-aiming-for-1-95-era-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/02\/25\/jose-fernandez-aiming-for-1-95-era-in-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Jose Fernandez aiming for 1.95 ERA in 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/josefernandez.jpg\" alt=\"josefernandez\" width=\"594\" height=\"435\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6524\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/josefernandez.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/josefernandez-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nAfter a strong rookie season resulted in a Rookie of the Year award, Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez is setting his sights higher in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandez, 21, finished last season with a 2.19 ERA. It&#8217;s hard to imagine doing better than that but the right hander says his goal is a 1.95 ERA this season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know it will be hard,&#8221; Fernandez said, via <a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.com\/news\/article\/mia\/marty-noble-marlins-pitcher-jose-fernandez-setting-sights-high-in-year-2?ymd=20140224&#038;content_id=68263518&#038;vkey=news_mia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Marlins.com<\/a>. &#8220;I like it hard. I don&#8217;t like easy. &#8230; But I&#8217;m going to try. It&#8217;s my goal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fernandez realizes posting an ERA below 2.00 is no easy task. Just 13 pitchers have done so since 168.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know, I know,&#8221; Fernandez said. &#8220;You can&#8217;t have too many bad innings. But I expect to pitch a lot of good innings. I&#8217;m not saying I&#8217;m going to get 1.95. But that is my goal. It&#8217;s what I want to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a strong rookie season resulted in a Rookie of the Year award, Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez is setting his sights higher in 2014. Fernandez, 21, finished last season with a 2.19 ERA. It&#8217;s hard to imagine doing better than that but the right hander says his goal is a 1.95 ERA this season. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,516,24,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-6523","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-jose-fernandez","10":"tag-miami-marlins","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6523","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=6523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6523"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}