{"id":9771,"date":"2014-12-20T17:21:29","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T22:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9771"},"modified":"2014-12-20T17:21:29","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T22:21:29","slug":"giants-not-interested-in-max-scherzer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/12\/20\/giants-not-interested-in-max-scherzer\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants not interested in Max Scherzer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/maxscherzer.jpg\" alt=\"maxscherzer\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5981\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/maxscherzer.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/maxscherzer-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Giants failed to re-sign Pablo Sandoval and then whiffed on their bid to land starting pitcher Jon Lester.<\/p>\n<p>With money to spend some have pointed the Giants as a potential landing spot for 2013 AL Cy Young Winner Max Scherzer. You can rule it out according to general manager Brian Sabean.<\/p>\n<p>The Giants have not talked to Scherzer and do not plan to talk to him notes Alex Pavlovic.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Sabean said Giants have not talked to Scherzer, don&#39;t plan to talk to him.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Alex Pavlovic (@AlexPavlovic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlexPavlovic\/status\/546402416011116544\">December 20, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Landing spots for Scherzer are dwindling with the Yankees ruling themselves out yesterday and the Cardinals saying the same earlier in the week.<\/p>\n<p>Scherzer finished 2014 with 18 wins, a 3.15 ERA and a 1.18 WHIP. He is said to be looking at a deal in the $200 million range.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Giants failed to re-sign Pablo Sandoval and then whiffed on their bid to land starting pitcher Jon Lester. With money to spend some have pointed the Giants as a potential landing spot for 2013 AL Cy Young Winner Max Scherzer. You can rule it out according to general manager Brian Sabean. The Giants have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[66,503,375,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9771","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-detroit-tigers","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-max-scherzer","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9771","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=9771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9772,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9771\/revisions\/9772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9771"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}