{"id":9324,"date":"2014-11-10T15:07:21","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T20:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9324"},"modified":"2014-11-10T15:07:21","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T20:07:21","slug":"braves-sign-chien-ming-wang-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/11\/10\/braves-sign-chien-ming-wang-to-minor-league-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves sign Chien-Ming Wang to minor league deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/chienmingwang.jpg\" alt=\"chienmingwang\" width=\"594\" height=\"330\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9325\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/chienmingwang.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/chienmingwang-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Atlanta Braves plan to target at-least one starting pitcher this offseason but it is safe to say that Monday&#8217;s signing of Chien-Ming Wang is not it.<\/p>\n<p>Wang signed a minor league deal with the Braves with an invitation to spring training. While splitting time between the Triple-A affiliates for the Chicago White Sox and Cincinnati Reds the 34-year-old Wang registered a 4.12 ERA and 1.49 WHIP in 172 2\/3 inning of work.<\/p>\n<p>It is doubtful that Wang will have much, if any, impact for the Braves.<\/p>\n<p>The right hander has done very little over the last three years and dating back to his time with the New York Yankees only twice topped 120 innings pitched in a season at the big league level.<\/p>\n<p>Both Kris Medlen and Brandon Beachy &#8211; who missed all of 2014 while recovering from their second Tommy John surgery &#8211; are expected to return to the Braves early in the 2015 season.<\/p>\n<p>The Braves will need to find someone to replace Ervin Santana and Aaron Harang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlanta Braves plan to target at-least one starting pitcher this offseason but it is safe to say that Monday&#8217;s signing of Chien-Ming Wang is not it. Wang signed a minor league deal with the Braves with an invitation to spring training. While splitting time between the Triple-A affiliates for the Chicago White Sox and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9324","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9324","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=9324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9326,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9324\/revisions\/9326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9324"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}