{"id":9915,"date":"2015-01-12T22:24:05","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T03:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9915"},"modified":"2015-01-12T22:24:05","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T03:24:05","slug":"diamondbacks-in-play-for-free-agent-pitcher-james-shields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2015\/01\/12\/diamondbacks-in-play-for-free-agent-pitcher-james-shields\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamondbacks in play for free agent pitcher James Shields"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/jamesshields.jpg\" alt=\"jamesshields\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9285\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/jamesshields.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/jamesshields-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe market for James Shields is still playing out. Among the teams interested in the 33-year-old right hander is the Diamondbacks.<\/p>\n<p>As FOX Sports&#8217; Ken Rosenthal points out the inclusion of the Diamondbacks in a list of suitors for Shields probably means his market is not at the $100 million mark. The Diamondbacks simply will not go that high.<\/p>\n<p>Rosenthal added that there was a team who offered $110 million but Shields did not want to sign with that team. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Sources: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DBacks?src=hash\">#DBacks<\/a> in mix for Shields, a strong indication that his market is not at $100M; AZ is not willing to spend for him at that level.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ken_Rosenthal\/status\/554809000223854593\">January 13, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Where Shields ends up is anyones guess. He may not find a team until Max Scherzer signs.<\/p>\n<p>Sheilds had a fine regular season going 14-8 with a 3.21 ERA and a 1.18 WHIP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The market for James Shields is still playing out. Among the teams interested in the 33-year-old right hander is the Diamondbacks. As FOX Sports&#8217; Ken Rosenthal points out the inclusion of the Diamondbacks in a list of suitors for Shields probably means his market is not at the $100 million mark. The Diamondbacks simply will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,853,137,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9915","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-james-shields","10":"tag-kansas-city-royals","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9915","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=9915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9916,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9915\/revisions\/9916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9915"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}