{"id":9579,"date":"2014-12-05T13:10:25","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T18:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9579"},"modified":"2014-12-05T13:10:25","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T18:10:25","slug":"ryan-dempster-retires-to-join-cubs-front-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/12\/05\/ryan-dempster-retires-to-join-cubs-front-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Dempster retires to join Cubs front office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/12\/ryandempster.jpg\" alt=\"Boston Red Sox v Chicago Cubs\" width=\"630\" height=\"350\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9580\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/12\/ryandempster.jpg 630w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/12\/ryandempster-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><br \/>\nPitcher Ryan Dempster did not play in 2014 choosing to sit out rather than pitch though neck issues. Now the 37-year-old is calling it a career in order to join the front office of the Cubs.<\/p>\n<p>Dempster pitched for the Cubs from 2004-2012.<\/p>\n<p>A decision for Dempster to retire does not seem all too surprisingly given that he sat out all of last season on his own account. He was just 8-9 with a 4.57 ERA in 32 games for the Red Sox in 2013. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Ryan Dempster is retiring and joining <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Cubs?src=hash\">#Cubs<\/a> front office as a special assistant.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Patrick Mooney (@CSNMooney) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CSNMooney\/status\/540914677996208128\">December 5, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A veteran of 16 years in the majors, Dempster finishes with a 132-133 record, 4.35 ERA and a 1.43 WHIP. He earned trips to the All-Star game in 2000 with the Marlins and 2008 as a member of the Cubs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pitcher Ryan Dempster did not play in 2014 choosing to sit out rather than pitch though neck issues. Now the 37-year-old is calling it a career in order to join the front office of the Cubs. Dempster pitched for the Cubs from 2004-2012. A decision for Dempster to retire does not seem all too surprisingly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[153,501,123],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-9579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-mlb","tag-ryan-dempster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9579","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=9579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9581,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9579\/revisions\/9581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9579"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}