{"id":9415,"date":"2014-11-17T19:20:18","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T00:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9415"},"modified":"2014-11-17T19:20:18","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T00:20:18","slug":"blue-jays-trying-hard-to-land-andrew-miller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/11\/17\/blue-jays-trying-hard-to-land-andrew-miller\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays trying hard to land Andrew Miller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/andrewmiller.jpg\" alt=\"andrewmiller\" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9416\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/andrewmiller.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/andrewmiller-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Blue Jays are trying hard to land free agent reliever Andrew Miller reports Sportsnet&#8217;s Jeff Blair.<\/p>\n<p>Miller is coveted for his history of being a reliable left handed reliever but in Toronto he could have a chance to close with Casey Janssen expected to leave as a free agent.<\/p>\n<p>Last year Miller saw action with the Blue Jays and Orioles appearing in 73 games posting  2.02 ERA and a 0.80 WHIP.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Told by source with competing team that Blue Jays &quot;very aggressive&quot; in pursuit of Andrew Miller.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jeff Blair (@SNJeffBlair) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SNJeffBlair\/status\/534416893969723392\">November 17, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays already landed catcher Russell Martin on a <a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/11\/17\/blue-jays-sign-free-agent-catcher-russell-martin\/\" title=\"Blue Jays sign free agent catcher Russell Martin\">five-year deal worth $82 million<\/a> so exactly how much they are can afford to pay to Miller remains to be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Blue Jays are trying hard to land free agent reliever Andrew Miller reports Sportsnet&#8217;s Jeff Blair. Miller is coveted for his history of being a reliable left handed reliever but in Toronto he could have a chance to close with Casey Janssen expected to leave as a free agent. Last year Miller saw action [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[817,9,501,95],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9415","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-andrew-miller","9":"tag-baltimore-orioles","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-toronto-blue-jays"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9415","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=9415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9417,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9415\/revisions\/9417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9415"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}