{"id":7324,"date":"2014-04-18T11:36:41","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T15:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=7324"},"modified":"2014-04-18T11:36:41","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T15:36:41","slug":"tigers-closer-joe-nathan-believes-he-is-over-dead-arm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/04\/18\/tigers-closer-joe-nathan-believes-he-is-over-dead-arm\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers closer Joe Nathan believes he is over dead arm"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7325\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7325\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/joenathan.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"418\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7325\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/joenathan.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/joenathan-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7325\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The right arm of Detroit Tigers closer Joe Nathan has come back to life.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday the 39-year-old relief pitcher talked about how he was able to finish his pitches and his ability to locate the ball following a save against the Cleveland Indians.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today was more how I felt, being able to finish,&#8221; Nathan said via <a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/news\/article.jsp?ymd=20140417&#038;content_id=72400654&#038;notebook_id=72458140&#038;vkey=notebook_det&#038;c_id=det\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tigers.com<\/a>. &#8220;My velocity is what it&#8217;s going to be, but moreso I was locating where I wanted to. But it did feel like it was a lot livelier.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s different 91s, different 92s, but today, at least finishing pitches, it felt like it was jumping out of my hand better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nathan threw 18 pitches on Thursday and averaged 92 mph on his fastball. <\/p>\n<p>Even after Thursday&#8217;s outing Nathan owns a 7.94 ERA and a 1.94 WHIP in six games this season but at-least he seems to be getting back to being the pitcher who is a six-time All-Star.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The right arm of Detroit Tigers closer Joe Nathan has come back to life. On Thursday the 39-year-old relief pitcher talked about how he was able to finish his pitches and his ability to locate the ball following a save against the Cleveland Indians. &#8220;Today was more how I felt, being able to finish,&#8221; Nathan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[66,503,425,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-7324","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-detroit-tigers","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-joe-nathan","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7324","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=7324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7326,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7324\/revisions\/7326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7324"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}