{"id":8332,"date":"2014-06-25T00:37:53","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T04:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8332"},"modified":"2014-06-25T00:37:53","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T04:37:53","slug":"heath-bell-released-by-yankees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/06\/25\/heath-bell-released-by-yankees\/","title":{"rendered":"Heath Bell released by Yankees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8333\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/06\/heathbell.jpg\" alt=\"heathbell\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/06\/heathbell.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/06\/heathbell-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nIt seems not long ago that Heath Bell recorded three seasons of 40-plus saves in a row earning himself three spots on the NL All-Star team.<\/p>\n<p>Three years later the now 36-year-old is struggling to retire batters at the Triple-A level.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Yankees were the latest team to give Bell a shot before they cut ties with him on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Now three different teams have given Bell a shot this season and parted ways with him. Bell&#8217;s lone stint in the majors this season came with Tampa Bay where he had a 7.27 ERA and a 1.85 WHIP in 13 games. From there he went to Baltimore before moving on to New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems not long ago that Heath Bell recorded three seasons of 40-plus saves in a row earning himself three spots on the NL All-Star team. Three years later the now 36-year-old is struggling to retire batters at the Triple-A level. The New York Yankees were the latest team to give Bell a shot before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[746,501,38],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-8332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-heath-bell","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-new-york-yankees"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8332","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=8332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8334,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8332\/revisions\/8334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8332"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}