{"id":9868,"date":"2015-01-07T21:54:17","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T02:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9868"},"modified":"2015-01-07T21:54:17","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T02:54:17","slug":"braves-have-stayed-in-contact-with-brandon-beachy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2015\/01\/07\/braves-have-stayed-in-contact-with-brandon-beachy\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves have stayed in contact with Brandon Beachy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/brandonbeachy.jpg\" alt=\"brandonbeachy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2579\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/brandonbeachy.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/brandonbeachy-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Atlanta Braves have stayed in contact with free agent pitcher Brandon Beachy.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this season the Braves opted to non-tender Beachy a contract making the 28-year-old available to sign anywhere. <\/p>\n<p>Beachy is working his way back from a second Tommy John surgery on his right elbow and is expected to be able to pitch in May. He reportedly has met with seven teams over the last two weeks.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Braves?src=hash\">#Braves<\/a> have stayed in contact with Beachy, have interest.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; David O&#39;Brien (@DOBrienAJC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DOBrienAJC\/status\/552975665948291072\">January 7, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Braves also declined to tender Kris Medlen a contract. Medlen went on to sign with the Royals. Whether or not Beachy and the Braves can find common ground on a contract remains to be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlanta Braves have stayed in contact with free agent pitcher Brandon Beachy. Earlier this season the Braves opted to non-tender Beachy a contract making the 28-year-old available to sign anywhere. Beachy is working his way back from a second Tommy John surgery on his right elbow and is expected to be able to pitch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[28,183,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-atlanta-braves","9":"tag-brandon-beachy","10":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9868","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=9868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9869,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9868\/revisions\/9869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9868"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}