{"id":8355,"date":"2014-06-27T10:04:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T14:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8355"},"modified":"2014-06-27T10:04:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T14:04:00","slug":"diamondbacks-release-jj-putz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/06\/27\/diamondbacks-release-jj-putz\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamondbacks release JJ Putz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/jjputz.jpg\" alt=\"jjputz\" width=\"1024\" height=\"717\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2381\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/jjputz.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/jjputz-300x210.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/jjputz-70x50.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Arizona Diamondbacks have released relief pitcher J.J. Putz.<\/p>\n<p>Putz, 37, was designated for assignment last week and becomes a free agent. The Diamondbacks are left to pay the remainder of his $7 million salary for this season leaving him available to the rest of the league for the minimum.<\/p>\n<p>It has been a tough 2014 season for Putz who has a 6.59 ERA across 18 games. Prior to this season Putz had compiled a 2.56 ERA and a 1.04 WHIP in 200 2\/3 innings of work the previous four seasons. He had a 229\/55 K\/BB ratio during that span. Those numbers will lead him to getting another chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arizona Diamondbacks have released relief pitcher J.J. Putz. Putz, 37, was designated for assignment last week and becomes a free agent. The Diamondbacks are left to pay the remainder of his $7 million salary for this season leaving him available to the rest of the league for the minimum. It has been a tough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[125,319,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-8355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-j-j-putz","tag-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8355","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=8355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8356,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8355\/revisions\/8356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8355"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}