{"id":6844,"date":"2014-03-24T14:00:43","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T18:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6844"},"modified":"2014-03-24T14:00:43","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T18:00:43","slug":"braves-release-freddy-garcia-indians-dump-aaron-harang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/03\/24\/braves-release-freddy-garcia-indians-dump-aaron-harang\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves release Freddy Garcia, Indians dump Aaron Harang"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nOpening Day is just around the corner and major league teams are clearing roster spaces. <\/p>\n

On Monday the Atlanta Braves released veteran right handed pitcher Freddy Garcia after the 37-year-old exercised his opt-out clause. <\/p>\n

Garcia pitched his way out of the Braves thin rotation this spring posting a 4.76 ERA and 14\/6 K\/BB ratio in 17 innings. He now is able to sign with any team.<\/p>\n

Splitting time between Baltimore and Atlanta, Garcia appeared in 17 games last season posting a 4.37 ERA and a 1.24 WHIP.<\/p>\n

He will be joined on the market by another veteran in Aaron Harang.<\/p>\n

Harang, 35, was told over the weekend that he was not going to make the Indians. He too opted out of his contract. <\/p>\n

The right-handed Harang pitched better than Garcia this spring, sporting a 2.00 ERA in four outings. He should have little trouble in landing a new job.<\/p>\n

Harang spent time last season with the Seattle Mariner and New York Mets finishing with a 5-12 record, 5.40 ERA and a 1.35 WHIP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Opening Day is just around the corner and major league teams are clearing roster spaces. On Monday the Atlanta Braves released veteran right handed pitcher Freddy Garcia after the 37-year-old exercised his opt-out clause. Garcia pitched his way out of the Braves thin rotation this spring posting a 4.76 ERA and 14\/6 K\/BB ratio in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[275,28,684,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-6844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-aaron-harang","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-greddy-garcia","tag-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6844","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=6844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6845,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6844\/revisions\/6845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6844"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}