{"id":725,"date":"2012-12-07T18:40:49","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T23:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=725"},"modified":"2012-12-07T18:40:49","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T23:40:49","slug":"diamondbacks-sign-brandon-mccarthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2012\/12\/07\/diamondbacks-sign-brandon-mccarthy\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamondbacks sign Brandon McCarthy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-726\" title=\"brandonmccarthy\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/brandonmccarthy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/brandonmccarthy.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/brandonmccarthy-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brandon McCarthy expects to be able to pitch when baseball starts. He will do so with a new team. The 29-year-old McCarthy has signed a two year deal worth $15.5 million to play for the Arizona Diamondbacks.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy was hit in the right side of the head by a line drive off the bat of the Los Angeles Angels&#8217; Erick Aybar on Sept. 5. He finished the 2012 season 8-6 with a 3.24 ERA in 18 starts. He was 9-9 with a 3.32 ERA in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Injuries have always been a concern with McCarthy but last seasons injury was more of a freak accident then an injury to his arm would have been.<\/p>\n<p>There were a handful of teams interested in McCarthy including one of his former employers, the Texas Rangers. Though the Rangers may have been hoping to use McCarthy as a fall back if they failed to sign Zack Greinke. The team has lost that option now.<\/p>\n<p>With the signing the Diamondbacks remain a contender in the fluid NL West.<br \/>\n<center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1DH7UNIZ4ow\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon McCarthy expects to be able to pitch when baseball starts. He will do so with a new team. The 29-year-old McCarthy has signed a two year deal worth $15.5 million to play for the Arizona Diamondbacks. McCarthy was hit in the right side of the head by a line drive off the bat of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[128],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-brandon-mccarthy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725","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=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}