{"id":680,"date":"2012-12-03T16:32:34","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T21:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=680"},"modified":"2012-12-03T16:32:34","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T21:32:34","slug":"brad-bergesen-headed-to-japan-to-play-for-chunichi-dragons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2012\/12\/03\/brad-bergesen-headed-to-japan-to-play-for-chunichi-dragons\/","title":{"rendered":"Brad Bergesen headed to Japan to play for Chunichi Dragons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-681\" title=\"bradbergesen\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/bradbergesen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/bradbergesen.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/bradbergesen-300x172.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Arizona Diamondbacks have sold the rights of right handed pitcher Brad Bergesen to the Chunichi Dragons. The Dragons play in Japan&#8217;s Central League and will welcome the 27-year-old who has appeared in 102 games for the Diamondbacks and Baltimore Orioles.<\/p>\n<p>Bergesen has a 4.61 ERA in the major leagues to go along with a 1.39 ERA and a 19-25 record.<\/p>\n<p>Claimed off waivers by the Diamondbacks, Bergesen appeared in relief for 19 games last season. He had a 3.64 ERA during his stay with the Diamondbacks.<\/p>\n<p>His age makes a return to the major leagues possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arizona Diamondbacks have sold the rights of right handed pitcher Brad Bergesen to the Chunichi Dragons. The Dragons play in Japan&#8217;s Central League and will welcome the 27-year-old who has appeared in 102 games for the Diamondbacks and Baltimore Orioles. Bergesen has a 4.61 ERA in the major leagues to go along with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[118],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-brad-bergesen"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680","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=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}