{"id":6854,"date":"2014-03-24T20:42:25","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T00:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6854"},"modified":"2014-03-24T20:47:45","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T00:47:45","slug":"braves-sign-aaron-harang-to-major-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/03\/24\/braves-sign-aaron-harang-to-major-league-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves sign Aaron Harang to major league deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2084\" alt=\"aaronharang\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/aaronharang1.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"713\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/aaronharang1.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/aaronharang1-300x208.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/aaronharang1-70x50.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Atlanta Braves have signed Aaron Harang to a major league contract.<\/p>\n<p>Harang, 35, was released on Monday by the Cleveland Indians after he failed to win a rotation spot with them this spring. The Braves have a thin rotation to start the season with both Kris Medlen and Brandon Beachy out for the season needing Tommy John surgery while Mike Minor is running behind.<\/p>\n<p>The right handed Harang will assume a rotation spot that appeared headed to Freddy Garcia when the spring started but instead the Braves released the veteran hurler today.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Source: Harang signing with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Braves&amp;src=hash\">#Braves<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ken_Rosenthal\/statuses\/448234878812041216\">March 24, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Once the Braves have Minor return it would appear that Harang could stay around with in a relief role.<\/p>\n<p>Last season Harang posted a 5.40 ERA, 1.35 WHIP and 113\/40 K\/BB over 143 1\/3 innings last season split between the Seattle Mariners and New York Mets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlanta Braves have signed Aaron Harang to a major league contract. Harang, 35, was released on Monday by the Cleveland Indians after he failed to win a rotation spot with them this spring. The Braves have a thin rotation to start the season with both Kris Medlen and Brandon Beachy out for the season [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[275,28,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-6854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-aaron-harang","9":"tag-atlanta-braves","10":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6854","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=6854"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6856,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6854\/revisions\/6856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6854"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}