{"id":6584,"date":"2014-03-02T17:09:56","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T22:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6584"},"modified":"2014-03-02T17:09:56","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T22:09:56","slug":"blue-jays-reassign-tomo-ohka-to-minor-league-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/03\/02\/blue-jays-reassign-tomo-ohka-to-minor-league-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays reassign Tomo Ohka to minor league camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/tomoohka.jpg\" alt=\"tomoohka\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5575\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/tomoohka.jpg 620w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/tomoohka-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><br \/>\nFormer major league pitcher Tomo Ohka arrived at camp for the Toronto Blue Jays this spring hoping to showcase his ability to throw the knuckleball. It still needs work.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday the Blue Jays sent him to minor league camp.<\/p>\n<p>Ohka, 37, will begin the season at Double-A.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Tomo Ohka and Juan Perez assigned to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23bluejays&amp;src=hash\">#bluejays<\/a> minor league camp. Both are non-roster. Ohka has much work to do on knuckleball. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23spinner&amp;src=hash\">#spinner<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Richard Griffin (@RGriffinStar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RGriffinStar\/statuses\/440235792942637056\">March 2, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Ohka last pitched in the major leagues in 2009. Over parts of 10 seasons he holds a 51-68 record, 4.26 ERA and a 1.39 WHIP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former major league pitcher Tomo Ohka arrived at camp for the Toronto Blue Jays this spring hoping to showcase his ability to throw the knuckleball. It still needs work. On Sunday the Blue Jays sent him to minor league camp. Ohka, 37, will begin the season at Double-A. Tomo Ohka and Juan Perez assigned to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[561,95],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-6584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-tomo-ohka","tag-toronto-blue-jays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6584","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=6584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6585,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6584\/revisions\/6585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6584"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}