{"id":9742,"date":"2014-12-18T19:18:18","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T00:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9742"},"modified":"2014-12-18T19:18:18","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T00:18:18","slug":"royals-see-kris-medlen-as-second-half-rotation-piece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/12\/18\/royals-see-kris-medlen-as-second-half-rotation-piece\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals see Kris Medlen as second half rotation piece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2606\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/krismedlen.jpg\" alt=\"krismedlen\" width=\"1024\" height=\"898\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/krismedlen.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/krismedlen-300x263.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Braves let pitcher Kris Medlen go this offseason to avoid paying him nearly $6 million in salary arbitration. There was some talk of the Braves re-signing him but that all officially ended on Thursday when the 29-year-old signed with the Royals.<\/p>\n<p>Medlen will earn $8.5 million on his two year deal with the Royals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More: <a title=\"Braves waste money in signing Nick Markakis\" href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/12\/03\/braves-waste-money-in-signing-nick-markakis\/\">Braves waste money signing Markakis<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Royals will allow Medlen to recover from Tommy John surgery and eye him as a addition to the rotation for the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Medlen has a career 2.95 ERA and 1.16 WHIP in 512 2\/3 career major league innings. There is some risk here for the Royals but given the upside it&#8217;s a worthwhile gamble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Braves let pitcher Kris Medlen go this offseason to avoid paying him nearly $6 million in salary arbitration. There was some talk of the Braves re-signing him but that all officially ended on Thursday when the 29-year-old signed with the Royals. Medlen will earn $8.5 million on his two year deal with the Royals. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[137,10,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9742","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-kansas-city-royals","9":"tag-kris-medlen","10":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9742","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=9742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9743,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9742\/revisions\/9743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9742"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}