{"id":6726,"date":"2014-03-15T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2014-03-15T13:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6726"},"modified":"2014-03-15T09:00:56","modified_gmt":"2014-03-15T13:00:56","slug":"brian-wilson-says-knuckleball-is-not-a-gimmick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/03\/15\/brian-wilson-says-knuckleball-is-not-a-gimmick\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Wilson says knuckleball is not a gimmick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_5173\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5173\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/11\/brianwilson.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5173\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/11\/brianwilson.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/11\/brianwilson-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5173\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nBrian Wilson began spring training with a knuckleball. Immediately everyone took notice figuring that Wilson was just joking around to start the spring.<\/p>\n<p>That apparently is not the case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never [expletive] around, it\u2019s an out pitch,\u201d Wilson told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fangraphs.com\/blogs\/brian-wilson-has-thought-this-whole-thing-through\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Fangraphs<\/a>&#8216; Eno Sarris.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src='http:\/\/m.mlb.com\/shared\/video\/embed\/embed.html?content_id=31432301&#038;topic_id=6479266&#038;width=600&#038;height=336&#038;property=mlb' width='600' height='336' frameborder='0'>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Wilson appears to have no concerns using the pitch during the regular season, or even as his go to pitch if necessary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy would you be scared? I don\u2019t understand,\u201d said Wilson. \u201cI\u2019ve seen a lot of lot of home runs on 100 mph fastballs and a lot of people think that\u2019s the best pitch on earth, I\u2019ve seen Mariano [Rivera] give up runs and he\u2019s got arguably the best pitch in the history of baseball.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fully healthy the 31-year-old Wilson is set to begin his second season with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Last season he appeared in 18 games down the stretch and finished with a 0.66 ERA and a 0.88 WHIP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Wilson began spring training with a knuckleball. Immediately everyone took notice figuring that Wilson was just joking around to start the spring. That apparently is not the case. \u201cI never [expletive] around, it\u2019s an out pitch,\u201d Wilson told Fangraphs&#8216; Eno Sarris. Your browser does not support iframes. Wilson appears to have no concerns using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[168,135,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-6726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-brian-wilson","9":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","10":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6726","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=6726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6727,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6726\/revisions\/6727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6726"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}