{"id":8753,"date":"2014-08-06T11:26:11","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T15:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8753"},"modified":"2014-08-06T11:26:11","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T15:26:11","slug":"brad-penny-is-an-option-to-start-saturday-for-marlins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/08\/06\/brad-penny-is-an-option-to-start-saturday-for-marlins\/","title":{"rendered":"Brad Penny is an option to start Saturday for Marlins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/08\/bradpenny.jpg\" alt=\"bradpenny\" width=\"512\" height=\"349\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8754\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/08\/bradpenny.jpg 512w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/08\/bradpenny-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><br \/>\nWith Jacob Turner designated for assignment the Miami Marlins are considering Brad Penny for Saturday&#8217;s game in Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<p>Turner&#8217;s rotation spot will need to be filled but how well Penny could do is up for debate. Penny has not pitched in the majors since 2012 but owns a 2.28 ERA in five starts for Triple- New Orleans this season.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately Penny owns an opt-out clause which means if he is not called up he could simply become a free agent again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s August, but there\u2019s still plenty of opportunity for someone to come up here and win a job,\u201d Marlins manager Redmond said of Penny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Jacob Turner designated for assignment the Miami Marlins are considering Brad Penny for Saturday&#8217;s game in Cincinnati. Turner&#8217;s rotation spot will need to be filled but how well Penny could do is up for debate. Penny has not pitched in the majors since 2012 but owns a 2.28 ERA in five starts for Triple- [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[805,24],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-8753","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-brad-penny","9":"tag-miami-marlins"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8753","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=8753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8755,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8753\/revisions\/8755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8753"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}