{"id":321,"date":"2010-01-15T13:07:31","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T17:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/?p=321"},"modified":"2010-01-15T13:07:31","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T17:07:31","slug":"pirates-impressed-in-side-session-with-cotts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2010\/01\/15\/pirates-impressed-in-side-session-with-cotts\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates impressed in side session with Cotts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/view.picapp.com\/default.aspx?iid=7464641&amp;term=%5c%22neal+cotts\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 0pt none\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.picapp.com\/ftp\/Images\/0\/8\/c\/b\/Neal_Cotts_throws_03b4.jpg?adImageId=9031796&amp;imageId=7464641\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Neal Cotts throws\" width=\"234\" height=\"356\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Neal Cotts&#8217; comeback bid with the Pittsburgh Pirates is gaining some steam as\u00a0 pitching coach Joe Kerrigan gave his recent side session a good review.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>&#8220;Pretty good arm action for a guy who had Tommy John surgery in early July,&#8221; Kerrigan said.(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pittsburghlive.com\/x\/pittsburghtrib\/sports\/pirates\/s_662274.html?feed=14\">Pittsburgh Tribute<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>Cotts spent the last three seasons as an expensive and injury plagued reliever on the Chicago Cubs.<\/div>\n<div>Last season he had Tommy John surgery and made jsut 19 appearances with the Cubs posting a 7.36 ERA and a 2.09 WHIP.<\/div>\n<p>With the exception of 2005 when Cotts was an integral part of the White Sox bullpen (1.94 ERA in 60.1 IP) he&#8217;s always been a reliever that seemed to be hanging on by a thread.<\/p>\n<p>Cotts can throw hard and is left handed so he&#8217;s been able to hang around longer then most right handers of a similar skillset.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being a left handed pitcher he has actually pitched better against right handed batters.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:right;margin-left:5px\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neal Cotts&#8217; comeback bid with the Pittsburgh Pirates is gaining some steam as\u00a0 pitching coach Joe Kerrigan gave his recent side session a good review. &#8220;Pretty good arm action for a guy who had Tommy John surgery in early July,&#8221; Kerrigan said.(Pittsburgh Tribute) Cotts spent the last three seasons as an expensive and injury plagued [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[59,472,514],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-baseball","8":"tag-neal-cotts","9":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}