{"id":716,"date":"2012-12-05T20:52:36","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T01:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=716"},"modified":"2012-12-05T20:52:36","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T01:52:36","slug":"dodgers-give-joe-blanton-15-million-over-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2012\/12\/05\/dodgers-give-joe-blanton-15-million-over-two-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels give Joe Blanton $15 million over two years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-717\" title=\"joeblanton\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/joeblanton.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/joeblanton.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/joeblanton-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tommy Hanson and Joe Blanton will help fill two spots in the Los Angeles Angels rotation next season. The latter signed a two year deal worth $15 million on Wednesday. The deal also reportedly has an option for a third year.<\/p>\n<p>If you think that seems like a lot of money for Blanton you are not likely to be alone. Blanton is coming off a season that saw him finish 10-12 with a 4.71 ERA and a 1.26 WHIP. The ERA is the lowest in a season since 2009 while the WHIP is Blanton&#8217;s lowest since 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Its a hefty price to pay for a guy who projects as little more then a end of the rotation starter. Blanton will turn 32 next week and figure to be slated behind Jered Weaver, C.J. Wilson and Hanson in the rotation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tommy Hanson and Joe Blanton will help fill two spots in the Los Angeles Angels rotation next season. The latter signed a two year deal worth $15 million on Wednesday. The deal also reportedly has an option for a third year. If you think that seems like a lot of money for Blanton you are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[127,114],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-joe-blanton","9":"tag-los-angeles-angels"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","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=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}