{"id":9560,"date":"2014-12-02T23:06:47","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T04:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9560"},"modified":"2014-12-02T23:06:47","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T04:06:47","slug":"alexi-ogando-non-tendered-by-rangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/12\/02\/alexi-ogando-non-tendered-by-rangers\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexi Ogando non-tendered by Rangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/12\/alexiogando.jpg\" alt=\"alexiogando\" width=\"594\" height=\"409\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9561\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/12\/alexiogando.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/12\/alexiogando-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Rangers have non-tended right hander Alexi Ogando.<\/p>\n<p>This is a bit of a surprise as comments by general manager Jon Daniels recently implied that the Rangers would tender Ogando a contract as the 31-year-old has proven to be useful as a starter or reliever when healthy.<\/p>\n<p>Ogando was limited to just 27 relief apperances in 2014 which ended after inflammation and ligament wear and tear was found in his right elbow.  He finished the year with a 6.84 ERA and a 1.92 WHIP.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2013 he posted a 3.11 ERA and a 1.23 WHIP across 23 games which included 18 starts. Whether or not the Rangers will make a bid to bring him back at a lesser deal or simply allow him to walk remains to be seen. <\/p>\n<p>Ogando appears to be another one of a series of buy low candidates this winter. That list also includes <a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/12\/02\/braves-non-tender-kris-medlen-and-brandon-beachy\/\" title=\"Braves non-tender Kris Medlen and Brandon Beachy\">former Braves pitchers<\/a> Kris Medlen and Brandon Beachy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rangers have non-tended right hander Alexi Ogando. This is a bit of a surprise as comments by general manager Jon Daniels recently implied that the Rangers would tender Ogando a contract as the 31-year-old has proven to be useful as a starter or reliever when healthy. Ogando was limited to just 27 relief apperances [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[881,503,501,12],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-9560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-alexi-ogando","tag-front","tag-mlb","tag-texas-rangers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9560","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=9560"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9563,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9560\/revisions\/9563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9560"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}