{"id":8589,"date":"2014-07-18T10:56:06","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T14:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8589"},"modified":"2014-07-18T10:56:06","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T14:56:06","slug":"numerous-teams-interested-in-joakim-soria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/07\/18\/numerous-teams-interested-in-joakim-soria\/","title":{"rendered":"Numerous teams interested in Joakim Soria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/07\/joakimsoria.jpg\" alt=\"joakimsoria\" width=\"594\" height=\"478\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8590\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/07\/joakimsoria.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/07\/joakimsoria-300x241.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nAt-least three teams have interest in Rangers reliever Joakim Soria.<\/p>\n<p>Soria, 30, is a near certainty to be moved ahead of the trade deadline. Though 30 1\/3 innings of work the right hander owns a 2.67 and 40\/4 K\/BB ratio while picking up 16 saves for the Rangers.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Morosi of FOX Sports reports that the Tigers have joined the Angels and Blue Jays as having interest in Soria.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Tigers are having ongoing discussions with the Rangers about reliever Joakim Soria, sources say. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FOXSports1\">@FOXSports1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jon Morosi (@jonmorosi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonmorosi\/statuses\/490138354587926528\">July 18, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Tigers have tried using Joe Nathan as their closer but the 39-year-old has struggled compiling a 5.61 ERA and a 1.52 WHIP while picking up 19 saves. Soria could be a replacement at the backend of the Tigers bullpen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At-least three teams have interest in Rangers reliever Joakim Soria. Soria, 30, is a near certainty to be moved ahead of the trade deadline. Though 30 1\/3 innings of work the right hander owns a 2.67 and 40\/4 K\/BB ratio while picking up 16 saves for the Rangers. Jon Morosi of FOX Sports reports that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[66,503,119,501,12],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-8589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-front","tag-joakim-soria","tag-mlb","tag-texas-rangers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8589","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=8589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8591,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8589\/revisions\/8591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8589"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}