{"id":6864,"date":"2014-03-25T15:45:29","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T19:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6864"},"modified":"2014-03-25T15:45:29","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T19:45:29","slug":"rangers-option-neftali-feliz-to-minor-leagues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/03\/25\/rangers-option-neftali-feliz-to-minor-leagues\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers option Neftali Feliz to minor leagues"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Texas Rangers have optioned pitcher Neftali Feliz to the minor leagues as he continues to recover from Tommy John elbow surgery.<\/p>\n

Feliz, 25, will work his way back to the majors while pitching at Triple-A Round Rock.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome guys need velocity more than others,\u201d general manager Jon Daniels said<\/a> on Saturday. \u201cHe just isn\u2019t ready to help us in that capacity. We expect the velocity will keep on coming. Where we start off, though, he\u2019s not in a position to help us in that role. He seems to have hit a plateau a little here. Some guys don\u2019t need to be 100 percent back to be effective. We\u2019ll just let it play out.\u201d<\/p>\n

This spring Feliz has appeared in nine games totaling 10 innings. He has a 4.50 ERA and a 1.50 WHIP to go with a 6\/2 K\/BB ratio.<\/p>\n

Feliz is owed $3 million this season, a number he will collect whether he pitches with the Rangers or one of their minor league affiliates.<\/p>\n

In addition to Feliz, the Rangers also reassigned Aaron Poreda and Rafael Perez to Minor League camp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Texas Rangers have optioned pitcher Neftali Feliz to the minor leagues as he continues to recover from Tommy John elbow surgery. Feliz, 25, will work his way back to the majors while pitching at Triple-A Round Rock. \u201cSome guys need velocity more than others,\u201d general manager Jon Daniels said on Saturday. \u201cHe just isn\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,501,689,12],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-6864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-front","tag-mlb","tag-neftali-feliz","tag-texas-rangers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6864","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=6864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6866,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6864\/revisions\/6866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6864"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}